Taking the stage at CPAC today, Steve King outlined his priorities. Unfortunately, he failed to mention any ideas for creating jobs, strengthening the middle class, supporting education, or protecting the environment. Instead, he chose to spend his time comparing Capitol janitors to Stasi troops, and attacking energy efficient shower heads.

Here’s reaction from news outlets across the country to King’s latest:

Johns Stanton, Roll Call (@bigjohnrc): Steve king just called janitors in the capitol nancy pelosi’s “stasi troops” for using energy efficient lightbulbs #cpac

Sam Stein, Huffington Post (@samsteinhp): Steve King says his interns would come back “in tears” when they couldn’t find a regular Edison light bulb. #weirdoffice

Alex Koppelman, NewYorker.com (@AlexKoppelman): At CPAC, Steve King just compared janitors who work for Congress to the East German secret police. No, seriously.

The Hill: King compared the Capitol Hill janitors who replaced the lightbulbs in his office with lower-energy bulbs to the East German communist secret police, describing them as “Nancy [Pelosi]‘s stasi troops,” and complained of a water-saving showerhead in his shower.

“I drilled it out and now my 12 minute shower is now a three-minute shower and I have nine minutes every day to beat up on the liberals,” he said to strong cheers and laughs from the highly partisan crowd.

Huffington Post: “I would screw them out and send the interns out to get me some of those good Edison lightbulbs,” he said, the crowd cheering. “And those interns would come back sometimes empty-handed in tears, because they couldn’t come up with a regular Edison light-bulb.”

He said he finally decided it was “cruel and inhumane” to send the interns on that task, so he went to find “black-market” lightbulbs himself. He then was faced with a decision: buy a recyclable bag, which he at first said no to, or pay more.

“Whenever I need to put a lightbulb in the lamp, I reach into this green back and I screw it in there and I smile,” he said. “A little bit of my liberty back, a little bit of my freedom back.”

Des Moines Register: King, a Republican congressman from Western Iowa, railed against “leftists that are deconstructing America on a daily basis” – with rules about calories in Happy Meals, how deep you can dig a moat around a sand castle, where you can toss footballs on the beach, showerheads, flush toilets and lightbulbs.