Air Pelosi? Uh, not so much...

Baseless and Hypocritical Smear Tactics? In my GOP?
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...it's more likely than you think.

Thanks for posting this, KT. I hope Question Rusty/Hulgate etc reads this post.

It wouldn't hurt to point out that the Speaker of the House is in the line of succession should something happen to the President and Vice President. But of course the WingNuts never pay attention to that unless the Speaker is a Republican. Then they want them to have a 24 hr Secret Service detail. Thanks for the post K Tizzle.

Wow,
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Michelle Malkin turns out to be full of $#!^......
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Imagine my shock!

Personally, regardless of whether Pelosi is doing it less than Hastert, its still wrong. While I don't mind Congresscritters getting rides home on scheduled military flights, the military should not be treated as their own personal air fleet.
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Let Pelosi fly commercial -- and be reimbursed only for "cheap" commercial, not first class.

Do you think this factual information has any chance of being noticed on the other side of the Partisan Wall?

pluk
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You do realize WHY the Speaker of the House rides military aircraft right? Do you think the President should fly commercial also?

Thanks for pointing this out KT! Now what will Hula have to rant about?
And yes...that was a snark.

The day Malkin stops raging at every single human being to her political left is the day her income stops.

"treats the Air Force like her personal airline." like "A billion dollars an hour" shows yet again how empty the republicans are.
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Imagine how effective they might one day be when they stumble across something to criticize that isn't demonstrably false.

You know the funny thing is that entire journalistic industries are being built primarily to combat right wing lies. Thats pretty much the reason for factcheck.org, politifact.com and snopes to even exist. Yeah there are some Democratic lies as well but if you go to one of those sites its pretty one sided as far as whose lies they have to debunk on a regular basis. And yet there is a section of the population who still believes anything Malkin or Hannity say.

PD:
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True dat – double true.
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"Discrediting Malkin" is the new "coals to Newcastle."

Someone take the sharp objects out of Halperin's and Scherer's offices.

I'm telling you KT give us marching orders and we'll do research so you can write that award winning investigative report showing the disparity between the two parties about relationships with the truth.
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KT you know that eventually somebody is going to do it, probably after it will no longer do any good though. but I can see the five part series now: Truth the last casualty of the culture war in Washington.

..i agree that it is probably going overboard and doesn't look so good...
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I could care less about whether it "looks good", i.e. if Pelosi's political enemies can get the scandal-hacks at Politico to write about it, but whether it is good or not.
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I think that the security of the Speaker should be weighed against the democratic value of persons in elite positions being forced to encounter the same everyday problems that we non-elites encounter, instead of being forced into not sharing their constituents' contexts.
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The legislature can only truly be the people's representative body if it is fundamentally of the people, IMO.

As a frequent business traveler I absolutely want the speaker on the military plane. For her security and mine. I don't want some maniac targeting a plane I am on becaue the speaker is on it.

When does Hula get out of school today? She's gonna be apoplectic! I'm anticipating an apple-juice-and-graham-cracker-crumb spit take, once she gets to her room & checks this post. Have you no pity, KT?

Was it necessary to link to the notorious bigot, racist, and serial harasser/stalker Michelle Malkin to report on this story?

Where are the quotes from Leftosi's haranguing staffers to our military personnel? Did anyone from Hastert's offices EVER pull such crap?

Hello?

Anyone homer?

This is not a news story.

This is a limp defense of the WASTE & ABUSE status quo in Congress.

Here's an idea:

FLY COACH like the rest of us (including most business managers with a hell of a lot more economic reality than Air Mathless).

What the Queen Media Bee of Medicrap fails to include IS Leftosi's staff treating our troops like her personal flight and ground crew (worse, actually), in language that was best suited to the LOATHE THE MILITARY malaise days of the Clixons (another abusive frequent flier cadre on the taxpayer's dime).

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-- How many times did brave and frugal Fancy include, not at her particular convenience, others not related to her specific party plans, to fly with her back to caring Cali when it didn't particularly suite her hair chipping schedule?

-- Did she accommodate anyone beyond her personal staff and family, en route?

-- How many trips were taken during any period of highest national security, that would require military aircraft?

-- How many hemp huts does that come to, flying virtually solo across the Hate States, in planes designed and paid for MILITARY use, and how many military trips had to be altered or canceled to accommodate her personal schedule?

-- Trips that amounted to fundraisers and political forays, using federal aircraft?

Keep flapping your rotary wings, KT.

Just try to avoid the fuel tanker next to the NCO Club.

I wonder how hula felt about Hastert doing the same thing only more often. Of course we will never know because wingnuts like him were happy with whatever their dear leaders did in the Republican Party. IOKIYAR rules their world and their discourse.

Myself, I'd prefer to see elected officials using the same transportation systems ordinary citizens use. It's also my opinion that this hyper-paranoid security thing is part of the vibe that keeps us on a war footing.

Personally, regardless of whether Pelosi is doing it less than Hastert, its still wrong. While I don't mind Congresscritters getting rides home on scheduled military flights, the military should not be treated as their own personal air fleet.

Let Pelosi fly commercial -- and be reimbursed only for "cheap" commercial, not first class.

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Indeed, and what thinking terrorist would actually target one of their leading spokespeople?

hyper-paranoid security thing is part of the vibe that keeps us on a war footing.
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Sorry jayackroyd, its one thing not to invade countries on a whim and its another to ignore security concerns altogether.