I'm sorry, but I'd fly that over coach any day.
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"accounting errors."
ROFL Yeah, right.
The sneering tone of this article is what we have come to expect from the NY Times whenever it must grudgingly acknowledge the mere existence of a Republican challenger to one of their favorite Democrats. Can anybody recall any occasion when the NY Times has taken Schumer to task for his (many, many) overreaching statements? I didn't think so...
However, if they were going to print the story at all, they couldn't have it look too good for the Mills team or have it reflect too badly on their boy, Schumer.
Consequently, a good 80% of the text is devoted to the proposition that the Mills campaign didn't really get it 100% right, while Schumer was actually more accurate in identifying his transgressions.
Tortured spin.
It was, if nothing else, a humbling moment for Mr. Schumer, a Democrat, whose office described the questionable billing as "accounting errors."
"chuckie" roast,, hard to chew and even harder to swallow
That's just plain ridiculous; it's wasteful and illustrates just what an elitist Schumer is.
And if you think Chucky flew all over NY in a single engine plane, I'd like to sell you two 107 storey buildings in NYC. Contrary to what the NY Times wanted this story does show just how high-flying Chucky Schumer is.
Chuckie is just showing the World the power and Privilege of Incumbency. A Private Jet for Chuckie, Air Force One for Hillary, Billy, Al and yes even Dubya.
I'm sorry, but I'd fly that over coach any day.
BTTT
Anything that will wipe the scowl off of Schmuckie Chumer's face is good news.
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You might wonder how this kind of thing can be resolved by Charter Chuck with a $480 check. The guys in Congress have set up a sweetheart deal for themselves: they can get us taxpaying chumps to pick up the cost of a charter, and then they "reimburse" the government the cost of alternative public transportation: a coach ticket, or bus fare.
The writer of this piece belittles a Beechcraft Bonanza. Well, let me tell you why the vainglorious Chuck flies in that small six-seater: it comes and goes on his schedule, there is no inconvenient security (might be important: there are persistent rumors that Chuck carries a gun), and no waiting for airline schedules or other passengers. You will have no 400-pound, hygenically-challenged behemoth, nor any screaming infant in the next seat. Politicians hate flying scheduled airlines because it exposes them to unscripted contact with the electorate, and nothing good can come of that.
"I only cheated a little, and I paid it back when I got caught," seems to be what he's saying here, and Charter Chuck wants brownie points for that. Sheesh.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Go, Chuckles! Take Her Heinous with you!
Can anyone say that if chuckie was a GOPer and Mills was a rat, this story would be presented the way it was?
Mills's manager did a great job. Of course the ratmedia will try to smother it. Now let's see who else picks it up.
some people forget that congressmen and women got the boot because they did things, with a bank in the congress, that ordinary people could not do. it took some constant pressure to make the story BIG. What an underdog needs to do is take a Senator to task for not being ordinary. People hate royalty in the guise of a politician.</p>
And the left had the nerve to question John Ashcroft using a chartered plane a couple of times. The Demo's creed: "Don't do as I do, do as I say."