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Pelosi to protesters: "Can we drill your brains?"
Politico ^ | 8/26/08 | Ryan Grim

Posted on 08/26/2008 2:19:42 PM PDT by Undertow

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?”

Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”

She went on to refer to the protestors, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would only reduce gas prices two cents in 10 years, she referred to the demonstrators as the “two-cents-in-ten-years-crowd.”

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; drillheredrillnow; energy; ninepercentnancy; oil; pelosi; pelosipickens; windmillnancy
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1 posted on 08/26/2008 2:19:42 PM PDT by Undertow
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pull it...


2 posted on 08/26/2008 2:21:45 PM PDT by Undertow ("I have found some kind of temporary sanity...")
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To: Undertow
Boy, she got ‘em with that one. Take that you big oil lackeys.
3 posted on 08/26/2008 2:22:48 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Undertow

Democrats accusing McCain supporters of “sophomoric chanting”; that’s a laugh. Especially given that sophomoric chanting and flippant sound bites are the basis of Democratic Party rhetoric.


4 posted on 08/26/2008 2:26:09 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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To: BallyBill

<3 Nancy, zhe meks mei veel smrtr.


5 posted on 08/26/2008 2:27:03 PM PDT by Danae (A Taxpayer voting for Obama is like a Chicken voting for Colonel Sanders)
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To: Undertow

This dingbat doesn’t seem to understand that this crowd represents well over 60% of the population, which far exceeds her 10% approval rating.


6 posted on 08/26/2008 2:27:11 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: scottinoc

what is the latest Congressional approval rating? I hear everywhere from 9-16% lately.


7 posted on 08/26/2008 2:28:22 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: Undertow
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis...

Hoyer, I'd like to introduce you to the "Recreate 68" gang. Kids, this is Majority leader Hoyer. Please. Sit. Talk.

8 posted on 08/26/2008 2:31:27 PM PDT by Hadean
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“Can we drill your brains?”

At least the protesters have brains. More than you can say for the airhead Nancy.


9 posted on 08/26/2008 2:31:50 PM PDT by y6162 (uot)
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To: Undertow

She is the dumbest person in the Congress. Biden is the dumbest man in the Senate and Boxer is the dumbest woman.


10 posted on 08/26/2008 2:31:53 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: Undertow

“Can we drill your brains?”

‘No, thanks, but we like what we see...who does your face, Nancy’?


11 posted on 08/26/2008 2:36:00 PM PDT by Ben Reyes (Dr. George Reyes says Nancy Have Been Through Plastic Surgeon in SF)
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To: Undertow

Is that on tape?
Damn that would make a good commercial


12 posted on 08/26/2008 2:36:12 PM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: griswold3

Can you imagine if Gingrich had tried something so childish with lefty protesters? The media would have crucified him for it.


13 posted on 08/26/2008 2:37:09 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Ben Reyes

Ping!!!
I’d say a 4 inch bit did the job..chin on ears..


14 posted on 08/26/2008 2:40:22 PM PDT by aeonspromise
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To: Undertow
Undertow I think this is what you meant to say...... This is what I say....
15 posted on 08/26/2008 2:40:30 PM PDT by zimfam007 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Undertow

Nancy, Master from “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome” wants to harvest your brains to power Bartertown.


16 posted on 08/26/2008 2:43:04 PM PDT by RichInOC ("Who run Bartertown?")
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To: zimfam007

It’s all good...


17 posted on 08/26/2008 2:43:36 PM PDT by Undertow ("I have found some kind of temporary sanity...")
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To: Undertow

And all that money we’ve spent on ‘alternative energy’ since the 1970’s has had NO results. I hate pouring money down a rat hole.

Cheap energy promotes individual prosperity.


18 posted on 08/26/2008 2:44:42 PM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: Undertow
I think Nancy and Co. are scared to death by the strong reaction they've received over their idiotic stand on domestic drilling. She can mouth all she wants to, but she's on the wrong side on this issue and she knows it.


19 posted on 08/26/2008 2:51:49 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: Undertow

This from a woman who insisted that natural gas was not a fossil fuel, no matter how many times Tom Brokaw gave her a chance to correct it.


20 posted on 08/26/2008 2:57:57 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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