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2007-02-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Sherry 2007-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 [Pelosi's] safety would be best ensured by using a plane that has the fuel capacity to go coast-to-coast.... "There's a certain amount of inefficiency and risk involved in stopping and having to refuel," said Dew Hammill, Spokesman for the Speaker.

Pelosi's shill is lying. The Gulfstream IV or V used by Hastert can easily fly nonstop from DC to San Francisco. The G-V (VC-37) could fly on to Hawaii without breaking a sweat.
Of course, Hammill and Pelosi can count on their core constituency knowing next to nothing about aviation except that planes crash a lot and drop bombs on schools and baby ducks.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-08 02:03|| 2007-02-08 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Hit tip and a high-five to the graphics poster! Lockheed Constellation "Queen Of The Skies." Somehow seems appropriate for Pelooosi.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-02-08 03:07|| 2007-02-08 03:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like her request was denied

Wotta heartbreaker. But she insists Bush wanted her to have all the security she needed, so it's still Bush's fault!

Posted by Bobby 2007-02-08 05:56|| 2007-02-08 05:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The only security she needs is to be locked up , preferably in NorK.

Setting a fine example for 'democrap-global warming we care ' policy

Im British and she makes me feel sick , gawd knows how you lot feel .

For sheer bare faced disruption , I put her in the same league as George Galloway . Not many can hope to achieve those lofty heights :/

Posted by MacNails 2007-02-08 07:31|| 2007-02-08 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Beosoker,

A plane like the Connie - especially the last versions, which were the most elegant piston-engined birds ever built - don't deserve association w/Pelosi and crew. :)

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-08 10:02|| 2007-02-08 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, WHY is it that she needs security? After all, HER side of the asile says there is no REAL War on Terror, that the terror is from our side, not the islamofacists.

Why demand privileges rephrased as necessities based on a situation that she denies exists?

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-02-08 10:22|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-02-08 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Exactly Ptah

Posted by MacNails 2007-02-08 10:36|| 2007-02-08 10:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh the humiliation. Jon Cary gets to strut around in a Gulfstream V that mummy bought. Better ask hubby for a Gulfstream VI using some of the defense contracts she steered his way.

Posted by Theans Hupeatle5489 2007-02-08 10:37|| 2007-02-08 10:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Air Force C-32 ...For one of those planes to fly the speaker home to San Francisco, drop her off, and fly back and get her, would cost taxpayers around $300,000

BTW, A C-32 is a Boeing 757.

Posted by ed 2007-02-08 10:53|| 2007-02-08 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Lockheed Constellation "Queen Of The Skies."

I thought this was the other nickname from the B-17.
Opps that was was a game fom Avalon Hill. However B-17 would be an idal vehicle for transporting her.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-02-08 11:57|| 2007-02-08 11:57|| Front Page Top

#11 More from the The Republican Study Committee today..

Seems Rep. Murtha is threatening the Pentagon:

Rep. Murtha Threatens Pentagon over
Speaker Pelosi's Demand for Military Jet
"I just tell them what they need to do," says Defense Appropriations Chairman

After the Pentagon rejected pressure from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrat leaders to provide her a military C-32 Jet, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) responded angrily after the media reported the story.

So angrily, in fact, that the Defense Appropriations Chairman apparently believes that it is "in the interests of the United States" to threaten Department of Defense funding over the flap.

THE INITIAL THREAT
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., the Pelosi ally who chairs the House military appropriations subcommittee, said he has spoken to Pentagon officials about the need to provide Pelosi with a bigger plane that can fly passengers coast to coast in comfort.... "I don't need to pressure them. I just tell them what they need to do." Murtha said.
(San Francisco Chronicle, 2/8/2007)

APPROPRIATIONS CHAIRMAN THREATENS TO CUT DEFENSE FUNDING AFTER AMERICA LEARNS OF PELOSI PLANE DEMAND

"Late Wednesday afternoon, one of Pelosi's closest allies in the House, Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., chairman of the key Appropriations Committee subcommittee on defense, told CNN that the Pentagon was making 'a mistake' by leaking information unfavorable to the speaker 'since she decides on the allocations for the Department of Defense.'"
(CNN, ABC News, 2/8/2007)
(San Francisco Chronicle, 2/8/2007)

Our nation is at war.

It is irresponsible, inappropriate and reckless for a member of Congress to threaten the Pentagon and men and women of our armed forces.

Posted by Sherry 2007-02-08 12:39|| 2007-02-08 12:39|| Front Page Top

#12 good find Sherry. Please, please, please keep running your trap, Murtha! Shows the public what you really feel about our men and women in harm's way.

Posted by BA 2007-02-08 13:34|| 2007-02-08 13:34|| Front Page Top

#13 this POS Murtha needs to be on the nightly news, making stupid intemperate comments. I sincerely hope his district is shamed into turning his ass out to pasture, where predators roam

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-08 19:46|| 2007-02-08 19:46|| Front Page Top

#14 I hope both Bullosi and Murtha have "unfortunate accidents" in the near future, as their total disdain for the American people becomes more well-known.

Mike, I second your statement about the Connie. It's one aircraft I dearly love. Never flew on one, though. She came out at the wrong time - just before the jets.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-02-08 20:54|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-08 20:54|| Front Page Top

#15

Big enough to hold Nancy's ego.

Posted by DMFD 2007-02-08 20:57|| 2007-02-08 20:57|| Front Page Top

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