Pelosi flips out, chases 'insignificant' Representative around the House

On Friday, after most of America had moved on to other things, the House of Representatives was still debating the border funding bill. Representative Tom Marino (R-PA) had the floor and took a moment to describe the fact that, while the House and Senate had been in Democrat hands, they'd done nothing to address immigration. This did not sit well with Nancy Pelosi, who began interrupting, and eventually freaked out in a major breach of decorum.

From ABC News:

“We don’t have law and order,” Marino began as he wrapped up his comments on the border supplemental. “My colleagues on the other side don’t want to do anything about it.” “You know something that I find quite interesting about the other side? Under the leadership of the former Speaker [Pelosi], and under the leadership of their former leader [Rep. Steny Hoyer], when in 2009 and 2010, they had the House, the Senate and the White House, and they knew this problem existed,” he continued. “They didn’t have the strength to go after it back then. But now are trying to make a political issue out of it now.”

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At this point, Pelosi approached Marino, interrupted him, and began shouting something about how this wasn't true. When a progressive standard bearer like the former Speaker begins yelling, it's usually a good sign that you've hit the mark - something Marino noted.

“Yes it is true,” Marino replied directly to Pelosi, who was House speaker in those years. “I did the research on it. You might want to try it. You might want to try it, Madam Leader. Do the research on it. Do the research. I did it. That’s one thing that you don’t do.”

Marino concluded his remarks, but Pelosi wasn't done yet. She kept yelling, pointing, and generally melting down - in full view of the cameras. Eventually, she even followed Marino up the aisle on the Republican side of the House in order to continue her finger-jabbing rant. GOP members had to get between the pair in order to calm things down. Later, Nancy Pelosi's spokeswoman Evangeline George told ABC that “Pelosi accepted the Congressman’s apology.” ...Except according to Marino's chief of staff, Bill Tighe, there was no apology. He says that Marino:

"did not apologize to Leader Pelosi and does not intend to do so as he has nothing to apologize for. She was entirely out of line in approaching him while he was recognized and delivering remarks on the Floor,” Tighe wrote in an email. “Her staff’s comment in your story about her accepting his apology in simply not true.”

That night, Marino took to Twitter, where he recounted how Ms. Pelosi (who he believes thinks of herself as "royalty") told him he was "insignificant." Of course, there's nothing too surprising about any of this. Pelosi doesn't like to be challenged and has a long history of feigned outrage whenever anyone spotlights her imcompetence. It's pretty clear that she doesn't like it when the "little people" call her out. If you're Nancy Pelosi, everyone whose last name isn't Pelosi, Reid, or Obama - in that order - is "insignificant." A partial video of her tantrum appears below. You can see here running around but, unfortunately, we don't get to see the part where she heads up the GOP aisle.

ABC News