NANCY PELOSI, CARBON CRIMINAL....(Pelosi isn't like everybody else. She's special)

NY Post ^ | February 8, 2007

[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.

[palmer]

And the jet Pelosi is demanding produces more than 10,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per hour - far more than the commuter plane Hastert used.

According the carbon calculator my personal CO2 emission is less than 15,000 pounds per year including my 40,000 miles of driving.

[SomeoneNeedsToSayIt]

God forbid they run into a upset citizen on a commercial airline and have to deal with that unpleasantry.

[chiefqc]

Like I said, elected officals expect to be treated like little GODS not like rep's for the voters who put them there.

Wake up people before they enact a law that allows them to be there forever.

[mombonn]

Nancy P Lousy certainly lives up too her name. She is a disgrace.

[mewzilla]

Conservation is for the little people.

Gee, wonder why the enviroweenie groups aren't having a cow?

[Alia]

Ideologically speaking, she really should be riding a horse and using organic sources. Then, of course, she wouldn't really need the diapers, and then we wouldn't be having the "fall-out" landing on our heads.

[Old Grumpy]

I'd like to see this story splashed across the front page of every newspaper in the country. (Well, I can dream, can't I?)

[oh8eleven]

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

[mewzilla]

=8-0

Now we know what her plastic surgeon was using for a reference...

[indianaconservative]

Problem is that there is no terrorist willing to down the plane she is on. Why take down an ally?

[Alia]

eeek!

[Beowulf]

Another Green Hypocrite.

[samantha]

She probably wants the big plane to have the Plastic Surgeon and his team Botox her on the way back to DC from Sf. Seriously, the Rats are going to start tallying all her miscues, and Steny Hoyer is quietly waiting in the wings. The rats do not want the terribly elitist Queen of the world impression she is creating to taint them because it will make them look bad to the voters running up to the Election in 2008. Watch how fast they replace her with her nemesis Hoyer. Time for Blinky to get off the Stage, she is even embarrassing previous unembarrassable Rats.

[Night Hides Not]

This is so wrong. She certainly has the means to purchase her own plane. She can deduct the mileage.

Damn straight!!! The mileage rate is 48.5 cents per mile for 2007!

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

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.

I'd really like to know what she needs all that for.

[chessplayer]

"Pentagon Rejects Speaker Pelosi's Request for Military Aircraft"
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2858225&page=1

A lot of the inmates at DU are outraged that Queen Botox isn`t getting her way.

[goldstategop]

Nancy Pelosi IS a liberal. They indulge in global polluting because cleaning it up is all up to the Little People. The liberals - the high and mighty elite -like her are all above that. Nancy Pelosi is the Leona Helmsley of liberal politics and just as likeable.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[gulfcoast6]

Ahhhh, little nancy p.

[Nancee]

"As for the taxpayers, they stand to get clipped for $300,000 per trip."

What else is new???