Pelosi Blames Sexism, Rummy for Plane-Gate

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Pelosi-plays-the-gender-card ping to Today show list.

[RegulatorCountry]

What's next for Mrs. Pelosi, counting ceiling tiles in her office to make sure hers is biggest?

[Calpernia]

[Cobra64]

Hey Nancy...

She's like a severe case of poison ivy.

[Thunder90]

Pelosi wants a plane from the Air Force One fleet. She wants it called "Air Force 3"

[Bon mots]

Broomstick 1 isn't big enough for Nancy's ego.

[geo40xyz]

OK, maybe Walmart can give her a new collection of brooms:-()

[Howlin]

I don't want any less opportunity than male speakers have had when they have served here."

Well, that's the truth; she wants more.

[3AngelaD]

The best she can come up with now that she's got all that egg on her face is that it's Rummy's fault? Pretty desperate. Hope she is enjoying her time as speaker.

[gondramB]

If we provide a plane for the speaker it makes sense it should be a plane that can fly from California to Washington.

But Pelosi gets more irritating every day.. claiming its gender after claiming that it was security (since the the air force base where they would refuel is pretty darn secure.)

[Howlin]

Oh, she did that right off; she made sure she and her staff have the biggest offices up there; she shoved a lot of people out of the way.

[Nathan Zachary]

As usual, Rosie O'dumbell on "Rosie's View from the far left" this morning stood up for Pelosi, arguing that this 162 seat behemoth would be cheaper on gas. Plus the women needs a better washroom in flight.

[Cicero]

Pelosi is making a fool of herself. She should be left to dangle publicly. I just wish Tony Snow had kept his mouth shut, because he seemed to be saying she had every right to a big plane if she wanted one. It's not like him to fall into that kind of trap.

[KarlInOhio]

Now, as a woman, as a woman Speaker of the House, I don't want any less opportunity than male speakers have had when they have served here."

Speakers?? Hastert was the first one to have a jet, and I think it was only a 6 passenger one. Pelosi's just upset that the Airbus 380 isn't available for her and a few hundred of her closest friends to fly.

Maybe Pelosi can get a smaller jet with inflight refueling capability so that she doesn't have to land and refuel.

[Dante3]

Nancy has a perverted sense of entitlement. She has damaged her image. Wonder if Leno will have Nancy jokes?

[Spok]

Every time she gets caught with her hand in the cookie jar, she'll defect the blame to the Republicans, 'right wing bloggers' and conservative Christians. With the dedicated assistance of the MSM, she'll get away with it. During the Clinton administration, the MSM mastered the art of turning mountains of criminal corruption into mole hills of 'partisan sniping'.

[DBrow]

You know, I did not have a problem with the Speaker of the House re-evaluating what plane is most suitable to go coast-to-coast. And seeing if a plane would be big enough for "constituents" as well as her staff is not that out of line.

But to blame my hearing about it on gender bias and Rumsfeld (who still has a desk) is pretty strange.

[hosepipe]

Sorry I vacillate between Pelosiphobia to Hildebeast-phobia or Roddum-twitches..

I'm a mess..

[Cobra64]

She really does have a childish "mine is bigger than yours" attitude.

If she had any brains and wanted to get from point A to point B in record time, she'd fly an F15.