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2008-08-27 Home Front: Politix
Pelosi to protesters: "Can we drill your brains?"
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?”
Is she trying to be funny? It ain't workin'.
Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”
Another good one.
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.”
She's really too ignorant to be allowed out by herself.
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis and that “all thinking Americans know” — stressing the word "thinking" and looking at the crowd — that America doesn’t have a quarter of the word’s fossil fuels yet uses a quarter of the world’s energy.
Another bugwit chimes in. Hey, Steny, the Democrats policy of no new refineries, no new oil fields, and no new nuclear plants won't solve the energy crisis either. Most "thinking" americans, something like 73%, want to get off foreign oil and the quickest way to do that is open up domestic areas for drilling.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2008-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 A lot of her supporters are big fans of self trepanation.
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-27 00:38||   2008-08-27 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps she is short on brains and needs to import some. Especially after several Archbishops blasted her and demonstrated that she is a lying jerk when it comes to the Catholic Church that she claims to be a member of (in spite of violating its precepts repeatedly and unabashedly).
Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-27 01:10||   2008-08-27 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Pelosi also says natural gas isn't a fossil fuel.
Nancy is the fossil fool. www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/08/021317.php
Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-08-27 01:33||   2008-08-27 01:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Not only that, she is a gasbag too.
Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-27 03:30||   2008-08-27 03:30|| Front Page Top

#5 "Can we drill your brains?"

No, we're using them.
Posted by gorb 2008-08-27 04:24||   2008-08-27 04:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems the proposed Alaska-Canada-Midwest America pipeline should be built as soon as possible. It seems California's leaders don't believe they need oil anymore. Plus I think Pelosi shouldn't be allowed to take anymore private jet trips to CA at taxpayer expense. The 5,000 gallons saved on each trip could be donated to needy SUV drivers.
Posted by ed 2008-08-27 06:15||   2008-08-27 06:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Funny how trite slogans are serious and full of meaning when uttered by leftists, and crazy simple phrases when spoken by anyone else. It's like there's some sort of double standard in reporting.
Posted by gromky 2008-08-27 07:49||   2008-08-27 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Ye Gods! Nancy Pelosi is a Night of the Living Dead zombie!

Drill your brains. Braaaaains. Braaaaaiiins.
Posted by Mike 2008-08-27 08:17||   2008-08-27 08:17|| Front Page Top

#9 It doesn't matter what new technology is proposed to settle the energy "crisis". Some group will come along with the reason (and law suits) to stop it.

Even wind farms.

The enviro-Luddites must be defeated.
Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-08-27 08:50||   2008-08-27 08:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Pelosi: Braaaains!
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2008-08-27 09:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2008-08-27 09:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Pelosi wants to drill somebody's brains out?
Well, it is a convention.
Posted by tu3031 2008-08-27 09:28||   2008-08-27 09:28|| Front Page Top

#12 I was going to make a comment about dry holes, but I don't want to be insensitive to Nancy.
Posted by charger 2008-08-27 12:27||   2008-08-27 12:27|| Front Page Top

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