You have to love an ethics watchdog group that challenges a blowhard politician for chastising a public service employee who simply was doing her job — as ordered by the very same blowhard politician.

At least I do.

http://www.ibtimes.com/randy-neugebauer-crew-wants-investigation-texas-gop-congressman-verbal-attack-us-park-ranger-video

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed an ethics complaint against West Texas Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer of Lubbock who earlier this week scolded a national park ranger for keeping folks out of the World War II Veterans Memorial in Washington. She was acting on orders because of the partial government shutdown that Neugebauer voted to enact.

He confronted the ranger and told her she should be “ashamed” for refusing to let people into the memorial. Neugebauer was trying to score points because Honor Flight attendees were coming from Texas to tour the WWII memorial.

“My beef wasn’t with the park ranger,” the congressman told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on Friday. “My beef is with the Park Service and with the administration.”

OK, fine. Why, then, did he believe it was necessary to scold the park ranger in public, have it recorded on video and then distributed around the world?

“Obviously, the Park Police employee had no role whatsoever in the decision to shut down the federal government,” CREW executive director Melanie Sloan wrote in her complaint letter. “Instead, as is well recognized, the shutdown was forced by members of the House of Representatives, including Rep. Neugebauer, who have refused to vote for a resolution to fund government operations unless the president acquiesces to an ever-changing series of demands, the most recent of which was a delay in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.”

Go get ‘im, CREW.