@PeteHoekstra digs deeper

Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) is still digging deeper, a day after, via Twitter, comparing the Iranian election protests to an unsuccessful political stunt that House Democrats tried to pull.

From Politico:

The incident he was referring to occurred in August last year when Nancy Pelosi shut out the lights in the House chamber after passing a motion to adjourn for the August recess. Republicans had taken to the floor for a pre-election round of bashing Pelosi and Democrats for failing to lift restrictions on offshore drilling.

It should be noted that there are a few differences between the victimized Iranians and the oppressed Republicans.

Pelosi, unlike Ahmadinejad,didn't dispatch her Revolutionary Guard to beat them up or shoot them in the streets, nor did she have the capacity to block their access to the Internet, rig a national election to keep them from being seated in the legislature or place them under House arrest when they protested.

Is there any question as to why Republicans are mocked so often?