I doubt that Nancy Pelosi ever expected this:

Using a tactic usually trained on the home turf of President Bush, a group of protesters from Code Pink, a women’s antiwar group, have camped in front of the home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi here, bringing their message — and mattresses — to the doorstep of the nation’s highest-ranking Democrat.

I don’t approve — at all — of protesting outside a private residence. Indeed, in many municipalities, this practice has been outlawed (usually in response to activists staking out the homes of abortion doctors).

But this tactic has become de riguer amongst the radical left in recent years. A recent example of such a protest (and amusing counter-protest) occured last May outside the home of then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Kristinn Taylor of Free Republic tells the story:

The Pinkos were not having fun. They shoved several of us. They waved their signs, hands and pink umbrellas in front of our cameras and faces. Sometimes they shoved the cameras. They called us chickenhawks. They were not happy at all to have the same tactics they use at press conferences, hearings, fundraisers, conventions and the last inaugural used against them.

Medea finally got tired of trying to get her lackeys arrested for sitting in the driveway so she had them get up and ordered them to go sit in the street and block traffic. The only problem was the police had already blocked the street because of the protest.

About a dozen Pinkos joined them in sitting in the street. Looking at them lounging about, forlornly waiting for the arrests that never came, I walked over to them. I extended my hand over their heads and started walking around them saying, “Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck.” When I got to Gael Murphy. I cried out, “Goose!”

She was not amused. I walked back, again playing “Duck, duck, goose.” This time I stopped at Allison Yorra. She was not amused either. But I was.

So I do feel a little bit sorry for Speaker Pelosi. But my sympathy for her is tempered by the knowledge that she brought this upon herself by aligning with the radical wing of her party, and then abandoning them when they became politically inconvenient.

[Code Pink organizer Toby] Blome said she understood that the protest might be an invasion of privacy but believed it was the only way to make herself heard. Her group has also paid several unannounced visits to Ms. Pelosi’s office here, with similar results.

“It’s uncomfortable for us to take this action in some ways,” she said, just steps from a thin mattress that served as her bed. “But she won’t give us her time, so here we are.”

Lie down with dogs, and wake up with fleas.