Posted on 11/20/2010 9:21:38 PM PST by raccoonradio
The answer is: because none of the Beautiful People arriving at ACK on Nantucket in their private jets this weekend ever have to worry about being frisked, groped, goosed or fondled by those TSA employees currently bedeviling millions of commercial-airline travelers trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
The question is: Why did Sen. John “Liveshot” Kerry blow off the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday with the pencil-pushing boss of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)?
These pat-downs are the biggest story in the country right now, but for Liveshot, his own committee’s hearings were a non-starter. After all, who does John Kerry hobnob with who travels by commercial airliner? These roiling problems at the nation’s security gates are but a rumor in Liveshot’s social circles.
After all, his wife has a private plane of her own — a $35 million Gulfstream V. It’s named the Flying Squirrel after a ski trail in Idaho near one of his second wife’s first husband’s trust fund’s five mansions.
Of course, the official reason Liveshot passed up the most media-covered congressional event of the day was that he had to “chair” a confirmation hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Here’s the statement:
“Keeping our country safe is Sen. Kerry’s primary focus as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, that’s why he spent yesterday working on a nuclear arms treaty and chairing a hearing to fill important state department positions.”
You know, like Thomas Nides, who will be the deputy secretary of state for management and resources.
“Tom, it’s a big job,” Liveshot intoned, “and we thank you.”
And good luck at Reagan National. Hope the kids, Max and Taylor, don’t get goosed too badly. Tell Virginia to wear a burqa and those plebeians might leave her alone, if they know what’s good for them.
As big as the TSA story is elsewhere, it’s even bigger in Massachusetts, where the two airliners that hit the World Trade Center flew out of Logan. We had probably the fourth- or fifth-highest number of 9
11 casualties of any state. The feds here are forever picking up terrorist plotters and illegal aliens funneling cash to other al-Qaeda wannabes.
But all that low-rent stuff happens in places like Watertown and Allston, a very long way from the world of John Forbes Kerry. Let those Republican parvenus try to dust up the TSA flak catcher, Kerry couldn’t be bothered yelling at him. No, he was playing at being chairman of Foreign Relations, lecturing the new deputy secretary.
“As the de facto Chief Operating Officer, you will be responsible for critical management functions at State. First on your list will be to roll out and implement the Secretary’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review . . .”
Somewhere even Manny Ortez is shocked at John Kerry’s cluelessness. Somewhere Manny Ortez is wishing he had a $35 million Gulfstream V to fly home for Thanksgiving.
It ain’t just Kerry - last week General Dynamics announced they’re adding 1000 new jobs at the Gulfstream plant in Savannah, Georgia. Them that can, are opting out - completely.
Nobody wants to grope Big John. Heck, not even Teresa wants to grope Big John.
Janetalia.
Sauce for the goose, whatever, lol.
OK I concede that the very rich super liberal elites won’t be affected by the Groper. But there are many dems who are upper-middle class professionals and they fly all the time.
Rush: Obama groping flyers to punish them for voting GOP - ‘This is all about control...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2629003/posts
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