Posted on 02/08/2007 3:54:41 AM PST by IrishMike
Remember when all then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich wanted was to use the front steps of Air Force One?
That didn't work out, thanks to Bill Clinton's aides - but in retrospect it seems that the taxpayers never had it so good.
Now the new speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, is demanding her own personal Pentagon-provided jet.
Who's to get the tab?
That's right: You.
The speaker has decided that she needs a personal shuttle between Washington, D.C., and her home out on the Left Coast.
Historically, House speakers flew commercial. Then, after 9/11, Speaker Dennis Hastert cited security reasons in switching to a military-provided plane.
But that was a small jet: It sat 12 passengers, with a crew of five.
In contrast, Pelosi is said to want a top-of-the-line, Air Force passenger jet - the military version of the Boeing 757 - which features 42 business-class seats and a 16-member crew, plus a fully enclosed stateroom, entertainment center, private bed and state-of-the-art communications center.
Color us surprised.
We didn't think Pelosi had any use for the military whatsoever.
As for the taxpayers, they stand to get clipped for $300,000 per trip.
For a lady who stands in the first ranks of the "party of the people," she sure eats pretty high on the hog.
Not to mention that such profligate use of jet fuel would make a mockery out of Pelosi's professed political priorities.
This is the same woman who declared last month: "I promise to do everything in my power to achieve energy independence . . . and to stop global warming."
Just two weeks ago, she added, "The science of global warming and its impact is overwhelming and unequivocal." Then she dedicated a select House committee actually to do something about global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Personal Financial Disclosure for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif)
She can afford to buy and operate her own bloody jet.
AIR-OGANT NANCY
DEMANDS 22G-AN-HOUR JET OF SAME TYPE VEEP GETS
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02082007/news/nationalnews/air_ogant_nancy_nationalnews_niles_lathem_____post_correspondent.htm
This is so wrong. She certainly has the means to purchase her own plane. She can deduct the mileage.
Shades of John Edwards' house. Except the taxpayers would be on the hook for this grandiosity.
My money is on Bush giving her what she wants.
This is her Marxist core shining thru to us all.
Just read an article that said she would get the same jet Hastert got which would require a tech stop for fuel to get to San Fran.
Those twelve seaters are for the "little people" she sniffed.
Good
Marie Antoinette had nothing over Nancy.
Seems that Nancy Pelosi is jealous of her european counterparts in being the shadow government.
She wants to be crowned queen of the shadow government.
(for those who don't know, in governments like england the opposition LOSING party becomes the shadow government which gets parallel tax payer funded offices, cabinet ministers, etc. It is part of the proportional representation advocated by the communists)
Imelda Marcos and Leona Helmsley also spring to mind...
I think the phrase 'Third in line from the Presidency" will become as tiresome as "did you know I served in Vietnam?"
She could get those special astronaut diapers so she wouldn't even have to get up out of her chair on those long flights.
"My god these people are pompous!
They are ALL overhead and don't produce a single good or a service."
CORRECTION:
They are all in over their heads and are incapable of producing a single good or service.
Remember how there was an elite in the Soviet Union. Leftists always make sure that there is an elite which doesn't have to obey the rules imposed on the common herd.
Hmmm, some folks are "more equal than others" is all.
"Move along" folks, nothing to see here.
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