Pelosi Ally Threatens Pentagon Over Jet Perk
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has the right to travel in a taxpayer funded jet, according to rules put into place since 9-11. The previous speaker, Dennis Hastert (R-IL) used a 12 seat Air Force jet. “Little Tommy” wants a large jet capable of traveling coast - coast, nonstop. She wants a bedroom. She wants to be able to carry her family, friends and fellow Dem Congressmen.
Since she has received a great deal of criticism over this taxpayer funded boondoggle, “Little Tommy” has fought back along two tracks. First, Pelosi is playing the gender card. Her claim is that she deserves the same perks as previous speakers. Fair enough. Prior to Hastert, House Speakers did not receive access to military jets. Hastert had access to a 12 seater. Following her own argument, that should be sufficient.
What is more distressing is the second tack that she and her people are taking. To get what she wants Pelosi is having Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA), close Pelosi ally, unindicted co-conspirator in ABSCAM, and member of the Appropriations Committee, to threaten the DOD. If Pelosi doesn’t get what she wants, the Pentagon will feel her wrath at appropriation time.
That’s a great message to the troops in theater.
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Neal Boortz did a wonderful assessment of why Her Majesty the Speaker wants a military jet (Boeing 757 in point of fact). Convenience. She wants her entire entourage given a non-stop ride from DC to San Fran and a GulfStream 3 can’t do it with either her load or refueling. For security reasons she gets the same government transpo that Hastert got, but she insists on a non-stop flight to her lame-brain city from the Capitol. She is acting like Marie Antoinette.
Note: her entourage. phriendlyjaime, like most Dem sympathizers, all you can do is say I’m wrong. You don’t know why, you just don’t like what I said. Address the issues for a change.
I think Pelosi wants Sean Penn, Barbra, Sarandon, the Baldwins and other Hollywood unsavories to fly along with her. If Piano-legs wins in 2008, they’ll be all over the White House again like a bad frat-party.
I think she ought to take a ride into Iraq as a gesture of goodwill to the military that has to cart her peloso fundament around.