WASHINGTON — Moments after the Senate defeated gun legislation this week, Patricia Maisch, a 64-year-old Tucson woman who helped stop the 2011 massacre there, stood up in the gallery and shouted "Shame on you!" at the lawmakers below.
But perhaps their ire would have been better directed at the lawmakers in Washington who are trying to shut down the government and are threatening to default on the national debt.
"People were angry at the oil industry, angry at the Republican Party, angry at the lawmakers who got caught in the scandal, and she channeled that," said Andrew Halcro, the president of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, referring to Ms. Palin.
After much wrangling with the politicians, he eventually came up with a masterpiece, a dome of steel, glass and mirrors with gently sloping ramps along which visitors can stroll either to gaze out over the whole city or down at the lawmakers in session directly below.
More smear tactics — now aimed directly at the lawmakers who would be asking Facebook tough questions by seeking to attack their moral right to defend privacy.
And people will be so angry at the lawmakers that they might actually forget briefly about her".
