Dear Speaker Pelosi
By Mitch Berg
To: The Hon. Nancy Pelosi
From: Mitch Berg, schlep blogger
Re: Thanks!
Ms. Pelosi,
As a conservative Republican who’s been fighting back against the notion that this was going to be a very rough year to be a Republican, I’d like to thank you for your remarks yesterday.
House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”
Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”
Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?
Ok, so a little back-and-forth smack-talk is fun stuff. I enjoy it myself, when I face the odd schnook in an Obama button baying at the moon at the Patriot booth at the Fair. It can be fun.
But this next bit…:
She went on to refer to the protesters, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would reduce gas prices by only a couple of pennies a decade from now, she referred to the demonstrators as the “2-cents-in-10-years-crowd.”
…merely proves that you are from Planet San Francisco. But I do hope to make sure readers all over the rest of this country hear that. Over and over again.
At any rate, thank you very much. I’m feeling much better these days.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am
If it was announced today that oil exploration were to begin on the continental shelf the price of oil would plummet.
Democrats don’t understand how markets work.