Posted on 02/01/2007 4:52:01 AM PST by radar101
The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pressing the Bush administration for routine access to military aircraft for domestic flights, such as trips back to her San Francisco district, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The sources, who include those in Congress and in the administration, said the Democrat is seeking regular military flights not only for herself and her staff, but also for relatives and for other members of the California delegation. A knowledgeable source called the request "carte blanche for an aircraft any time." "They are pressing the point of her succession and that the [Department of Defense] needs to play ball with the speaker's needs," one source said. The request originally went to the Pentagon, which then asked the White House to weigh in. Mrs. Pelosi's request is not new for a speaker, who is second-in-line in presidential succession. A defense source said the speaker's regular access to a military plane began after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican, who was speaker at the time, started using U.S. Air Force planes for domestic travel to and from his district for security reasons. A former Hastert aide said the congressman did not use military planes for political trips or regularly transport his family. The defense source said Mr. Hastert requested a plane with good communications so he could conduct legislative business. The military flights increased to the point the speaker used a military plane for many, if not all, flights to his Illinois district, the former aide said. Sources said Mrs. Pelosi's request goes beyond what Mr. Hastert received. The speaker's legal counsel is spearheading the talks.
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She probably thinks that she'll be President before the year is out, thanks to Plamegate...the hard left thinks that Cheney's notes prove Bush was criminally involved in the effort to diss St. Joe Wilson, and of course Cheney is even more closely connected because he was Libby's boss.
Much more than $30 million, much more.
I say strap her in the backseat of an F18 and commence aerial combat manuevering. She'd either fill up her mask and pass out or pull the handle.
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Yes! Great catch!
I bet if you looked, you could find something nasty Nancy said about the military back during those times!
Paratrooper training without a parachute??
Thanks again, "protest voters."
Nah, her broom blew a head gasket, just like her head.
I did an FR search for "san francisco ban" and came up with this result.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=san+francisco+ban&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=score&SX=45c2029adf8887956165d05480294e481d6ebb48
I know there was a thread here last year that had something about her insulting the military. Too many threads to check for today.
Whose decision is this despicably arrogant and disrespectful cretin's request?
First thought I had was it would be acceptable for her to use the planes for flights. Then reality struck.
Can you imagine the delays, the ass kissing that the crews would have to start doing. I can just picture her telling the crew to wait until her friends got there. Or even a family member trying to hold up the flight.
Just think of the implications little delays like this could cause x 535 members of congress x (how ever many relatives they let on the planes). It could really stall our military Airlift Command.
THis would be abused and it would degrade our military.
Sure, she can take a MAC but she needs to be warned up front that they don't serve lobster or wine.
This comes under the category, "If you give them an inch, they will take a mile." If this beotch gets this perk, watch out -- there will be no stopping her.
Why does not the Air force require her to fly the plane.
The current Democrat party line is that the President exaggerated the threat of terrorism to pursue his own agenda and that the threat of domestic terrorism is practically nil. Yet here is the Democrat Speaker of the House claiming that the threat of domestic terrorism is so pervasive that not only does she need access to special military flights for her routine travel needs; her staff, her relatives, and the entire California delegation need it too. Someone needs to ask her: "So which is it? Is there a significant threat of domestic terrorism or not?"
I don't think she's planning on flying 'Space-A.'
Not once she finds out about the honeybucket. :p
Actually she and her family and band of a$$ kissers need to see the empire she thinks she rules.....from a good ole Huey...100 kts across America....with more than a few fuel stops....well maybe the Army could upgrade her to a UH-60...slightly faster...and slightly fewer fuel stops. Nothing to good for the empress in waiting...
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