Posted on 01/30/2010 11:46:39 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Meet the Pelosi family! Using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Judicial Watch uncovered thousands of pages of travel documents related to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's use of military aircraft.
What hasn't been revealed so far is that military aircraft are being used to shuttle Pelosi's kids and grandkids between DC and San Francisco without any Congressional representatives even onboard! Put simply, the United States Air Force is serving as a multi-billion dollar chauffeur- and baby-sitting service for Nancy Pelosi's kids and grandkids -- presumably because commercial travel is beneath the families of the autocrats.
But this couldn't be a waste of resources because the U.S. military really isn't engaged in any other significant activities around the world.
Even if you assume that the Speaker's use of military jets for her personal travel is legitimate (a big "if" -- and here's an example of such a use), it would appear the Speaker is shipping her kids and grandkids across the country -- without any real Congressional delegation on board -- by using the military as a family shuttle service!
(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...
No, this idiot needs to be forced to step down...doing the perp walk.
Thanks, grey_whiskers. I should have pinged you to this one:
Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze’
Judicial Watch said the newly obtained 2,000 pages of documentation show Pelosi’s military travel cost the U.S. Air Force $2,100,744.59 over two years including $101,429.14 for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.
Among the newest highlights revealed:
Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. Of 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations (CODEL), 31 trips included members of the House speaker’s family.
One CODEL traveling from Washington, D.C., through Tel Aviv, Israel, to Baghdad, Iraq, May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. This flight included the purchase of the long list of alcoholic drinks.
According to a “Memo for Record” from a March 29-April 7, 2007, CODEL that involved a stop in Israel, “CODEL could only bring kosher items into the hotel. Kosher alcohol for mixing beverages in the delegation room was purchased on the local economy i.e. bourbon, whiskey, scotch, vodka, gin, triple sec, tequila, etc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2439974/posts
self ping for later
gnip...
One word:
IMPEACH!
Yes! If execution is an option, that should be considered as well. :-)
Bump.
What an odious and stupid little woman she is!
STE=Q
To me that sounds more like some sincere grumbling in the ranks. Like the kind that causes people not to turn out when the Dem. ward heelers come around on election day. Remember that some people think "I always vote 'x' - but sometimes I don't vote." Possibly harmful or fatal to Democrat control of the political process.
Pelosi blew the cost of somebody's nice new elementary school playground on booze... That's something all Americans can agree on regardless of race, color or creed.
~~MUST READ the gluttony and arrogance .. PING!
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-military-serving-as-chauffeurs.html
Thank you for posting, Free Thinker!
CENSURE/IMPEACH PELOSI!
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Waddaya mean “like?” If she isn’t crazy, nobody is...
Right, Ubama and his attorney general Holder will come down hard on Pelosi.
Or... the House will. Or... Pelosi's constituents will dump her. Or...
Keep dreaming.
The America-hating Democrats loathe the military and they love Pelosi's brand of communism. They couldn't care less about corruption or the waste of tax dollars. It's what they ARE. Pelosi is untouchable and she knows it.
She is doing both. That is the problem.
As bad as that was, it doesn't hold a candle to the double standard that is on display here. Pelosi does much worse than the Big Three execs. At least they were spending company money. She is spending our money and she is blatantly abusing the privilege.
There needs to be a commercial showing the Dem's attacking the auto execs for using private jets and then showing Pelosi and others flying around in theirs.
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