WASHINGTON—Waving signs, brandishing sticks, and hurling rotten
fruit, thousands of citizens lined the streets of Washington to
taunt and abuse defeated members of Congress as they were
forcibly marched from the nation's capital at sundown Wednesday.
"There's one now! Get him!" said Albert Howatt, who had driven
nearly 24 hours from Wichita to lob a chunk of pure Kansas
granite at the disgraced politicians. "Go on out of here and
don't come back!" The crowd then descended upon 63-year-old
legal clerk Paulette Thomas, kicking, spitting on, and
eventually hospitalizing the woman they had mistaken for
outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.