The House GOP, who as a group rarely ever shy away from verbal pomposity and disturbing flashes of fact aversion, have been shouting to anyone willing to listen this week about House Speaker Pelosi's resistance to legitimize their farcical calls for a vote on OCS--outer continental shelf drilling. Thanks to Think Progress, here's a good list of their strange comparisions of Pelosi to a dictator:

– Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI): "This is the people's House. This is not Pelosi's politiburo."

– Rep. John Boehner (R-OH): "She's gonna bring us back and not deal with it? The American people are gonna hang her."

– Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC): "When the people of France were starving, they went to the queen and said, 'The people have no bread.' The queen's answer was, 'Let them eat cake.' That is not the kind of answer we expect from the leader of the people's house in the United States of America."

– Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ): "There's going to be a change in this policy, Nancy Pelosi notwithstanding. She can't repress us forever."

– Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO): "I can't answer why she's acting like a dictator."

– Rep. Denny Rehlberg (R-MT): "Nancy Pelosi should not hold the American people hostage."

– Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX): "In your mind, do you believe America is a democracy or a dictatorship?"

Got it? Since Pelosi won't yield to the House GOP's calls for a gimmick vote on drilling, she's an American-style represser, dictator, or out-of-touch aristocrat. I wonder what that makes the  Department of Energy, who says that driling won't have a substantial impact on record gas prices? You can email all of these folks making these grandiose (and flat out wrong) statements about Pelosi at www.projecthotset.org. Tell them they should spend less time trying to paint the Speaker as a facist and more time switching our economy to one that runs on clean and green technologies instead of dirty fuels.