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 \u201cDrill here! Drill now!\u201d<\/p>\n
Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: \u201cCan we drill your brains?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ok, so a little back-and-forth smack-talk is fun stuff.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It can be fun.<\/p>\n
She went on to refer to the protesters, who continued to chant sporadically, as \u201chandmaidens of Big Oil.\u201d 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 \u201c2-cents-in-10-years-crowd.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
…merely proves that you are from Planet San Francisco.\u00a0 But I do hope to make sure readers all over the rest <\/em>of this country hear that.\u00a0 Over and over again.
\nAt any rate, thank you very much.\u00a0 I’m feeling much better these days.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To: The Hon.\u00a0 Nancy Pelosi From: Mitch Berg, schlep blogger Re:\u00a0 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\u00a0 you\u00a0 for your remarks yesterday. House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}