During the National League Championship Series, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco Giants topped Sen. Arlen Specter’s Phillies. For Philly fans, it’s still a raw wound — with Roy Halladay as our ace, how could we lose?
Well, our broken dream continues to haunt.
Before the series began, Specter, confident in the bats of Ryan Howard and Chase Utley, made a wager with Pelosi. And this afternoon he paid up, via an enormous Hershey’s chocolate cake emblazoned with an image of Independence Hall.
For Pelosi, it may be a bittersweet gift: a reminder of a baseball triumph . . . and of the libery-loving tea parties which led to her party’s shellacking.
Anyway, here’s a snapshot I took of the milk-chocolate monstrosity as it was being wheeled into the Speaker’s office.
