Posted on 08/03/2008 10:59:10 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi thinks you are all suckers. From the recent past:
AIR PELOSI
SPEAKER OPTS FOR WASTE AND ARROGANCE
By RICHARD MINITER
February 10, 2007
THURSDAY morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped out of her Georgetown home and into a government-owned black Chevy Tahoe SUV. That gas-guzzler truck took her directly to the Rayburn House Office Building - where she was the lead witness at a Science and Technology Committee hearing on global warming.
This, the day after word broke of Pelosi’s request for regular use of a U.S. Air Force C-32 - the same plane that flies the vice president and first lady.
She wants to travel in luxury. The Air Force jet is the same size and airframe as the Boeing 757-200, which carries about 300 passengers. The C-32 boasts 42 business-class seats - plus a wood-paneled state room, big-screen TV, full-size bed and crew of 16, including uniformed stewards who bring drinks and meals on request. Oh, and an open bar.
Cost to taxpayers? Some $15,000 an hour.
A round-trip to Rep. Pelosi’s home in San Francisco could easily run $300,000. Meanwhile, the same flight on a commercial jet can run less than $300.
Pelosi campaigned on the promise that she would clean up the GOP’s waste and abuse of taxpayer’s dollars. So why doesn’t she use the little commuter jet that the Air Force lent to Dennis Hastert, the previous speaker?
She said it was “not big enough” to accommodate her staff, supporters and other members of the California delegation. Also, it would have to stop to refuel. “There’s a certain amount of inefficiency and risk involved in stopping and having to refuel,” a Pelosi spokesman said.
Pelosi doesn’t understand why the vice president and first lady rate a bigger plane than she does, when she is two heartbeats away from the presidency.
Maybe she just doesn’t want to fly like the rest of us, enduring long lines and security hassles. On Pelosi’s “Air Force Three,” there’ll be no waiting, no metal detectors, no searches - and the plane leaves when she says it does.
If anything, the Democratic speaker has the Republicans beat on both wasteful spending and elitism. And that takes some doing.
Then there’s the speaker’s concerns about global warming. In flight, the C-32 pumps out 10,000-plus pounds an hour of CO2, the main pollutant that greens finger in global warming. A single round-trip to San Francisco would produce more than 50 tons of pollutants. How can she have her plane and complain about global warming too?
Recently, Pelosi requested a military plane to fly her to a Democratic Party retreat in Williamsburg, Va. - just a two-hour drive from the nation’s capitol. The Defense Department said no. (No word if she took her taxpayer-subsidized SUV instead.)
But it may prove politically risky for the Bush administration to keep saying no. Pelosi ally Jack Murtha chairs the subcommittee that controls the Pentagon’s money. The Washington Times reports that Murtha has telephoned Bush officials, demanding that they give her the plane.
Worse, one source tells me, is what Democrats are reporting of that conversation - the implied threat that Murtha made: You want money for the Iraq war? You better give the speaker her plane.
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Yes.
It was good to see him nail her on this.
That would look VERY, VERY bad for the "one" to have to flip flop on his position to align with the dem party when he is the nominee and supposed "leader".
Bottom line is Pelosi and Reid have been waiting for the "one" to change his position on drilling to give them the freedom to move on a vote.
Now that he has "flipped flopped" right after the Congress recesses, that gave him five weeks to hammer out his "nuanced" drilling position probably real similar to McCain and he will be the hero to the American people (moonbats) when Congress reconvenes and passes his plan.
This all a well thought out strategy by the dems to take away the issue of drilling from the pubbies and lock in the election
The only real cost to the dem party is having Pelosi and Reid sporting inanities like "I'm saving the planet"to make the plan work. Since they say inanities on a daily basic, it's no big deal
“They’ll have to use their imagination as to how they can get a vote.....”
Moderating my own comment....
Just curious, where do you keep coming up with this 9% approval rating? I have repeatedly gone to RCP and the national averages have all ranged from 14% to the current 19%, but never have I seen 9%.
Don’t get me wrong, they are truly bad and dislike Pelosi and the Democrats as much as the rest, but let’s be more honest and forthright in how we express reality. It makes us all look bad to be so incredibly ignorant about simple statistics. Lurkers tuning in for the first time will see this as extremist demagoguery and we don’t need that right now.
Can Shanklin channel Bela Pelosi?? "Just my imagination, once again... Running away with meeee..."
I was furious watching Madam this morning. Her snarky little remark about the war dance of the handmaidens of the oil industry just about made me throw something through the tv screen.
I have news for Madam, it’s not just conservatives or Republicans who are getting hurt by the gas and oil increases. The Democrat party has truly lost their collective minds.
You know, I don’t think most Americans understand how Congress works. They are probably scratching there heads wondering how they have representation if their representatives are not allowed to to vote.
Republicans need to nationalize the Congressional campaign, saying that a vote for any Democrat is a vote for Nancy Pelosi to remain in power, and therefore a vote against drilling and lowering gas prices.
Here is my quick version:
(cue music)
Imagine there’s no gasoline
It’s easy if you try
No gas to fill our cars with
above us only pie
Imagine all the people
being left to only die
Imagine there’s no America
It isn’t hard to do
With Pelosi running Congress
there’ll be nothing that we can do
Imagine all the people
Living on the streets
AHHHAAAAA....
This from a woman that is narcissitic enough to IMAGINE that she can ‘save the planet’....lol
That’s two songs that would be good fodder....LOL
Anymore we can use?
He-he-he-he!
I liked it! :)
“Imagine all the people
Living on the streets”
I feel like that is where I am headed. They’re on recess for what? 5 weeks? I’ll have a lot of dough poured down the gas tank during that time. And if a hurricane hits during those 5 weeks, then what? (I just deleted the rest of my comments, using self censorship...)
That was one isolated poll done several weeks ago. The averages is what really matters. Of the 10 most regular national polls, the average as of this week was 19%.
We cannot really keep on saying that because they hit 9% in one Conservative leaning poll a month ago for only a day or so, that they will forever keep a 9% approval rating.
At the same time, (at the time of the poll) the averages said that Americans favored electing Democrats to Congress by a margin of 15% in favor of the Democrats.
Just something to ponder.
Well, let’s hope the voters bring the guillotine to the voting booth in November and cut the heads off the Dems. But of course they won’t—Nancy’s district is full of flaming libs, and I’m sure the idiot Wexler who doesn’t even live in his district will be re-elected too.
Sad, really! Work to oust or repel all liberals—from President to dogcatcher. Our Republic is in danger!!
Wow - While I did not see the program, the transcript shows that Stephy was RELENTLESS in trying to get her to answer. Good job on his part (for once).
All the Representatives are up for re-election this year, as they are every 2 years. A third of the Senators are. This President lifted his father’s ban on drilling with an Executive Order. He has placed all their behinds on the line. Stephanopoulos knows that and is not sufficiently arrogant as to believe, as Nancy does, that the American people are too dumb to notice. The Dem. wins this Nov. won’t be as tremendous/devastating as the Pundits are making out. Steponallofus was trying to save his party.
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