Whoa there, admiral, you can’t relocate U.S. Marines and their families to Guam because it’s a tiny island and the extra weight may cause her to capsize!

I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of what Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said at a recent congressional hearing in a rambling query to his witness. The exact quote, starting at about 1:15 in the video: “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”

And somehow the admiral kept a straight face when answering, “We don’t anticipate that.”

(Hot Air notes that Johnson is rather ill with Hepatitis C, but he has been for a while and loss of mental faculties doesn’t appear to be a symptom of the disease. I don’t think that explains his disconnect from reality in this instance.)