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NANCY'S PERSONAL AIRLINE ... THE U.S. MILITARY

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Neal Boortz
@ March 11, 2009 9:33 AM
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I've been telling you about this for some weeks now ... ever since our wonderful Democrat congress started demonizing anyone who uses a private jet in their business.

Nancy Pelosi's business is running the U.S. House of Representatives, and Nancy not only has one private jet at her disposal; she has a fleet. That's right, a fleet of private jets, paid for by the taxpayers, that shuttle her and her friends and family where they please. Nancy's fleet is operated by the Pentagon. According to a report from Judicial Watch, Nancy repeatedly requested military aircraft and treated the Air Force as her "personal airline." Based on e-mails and other documents, Nancy regularly made special demands for high-end aircraft, often canceled at the last minute and racked up some serious expenses for the military .. and ultimately the taxpayers. What's more (and this is no surprise) Princess Nancy and her staff would be just a wee bit abusive when they couldn't get their way. In one email recovered with a FOIA request, Pelosi's aid Kay King wrote "It is my understanding there are NO G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable ... The Speaker will want to know where the planes are." In other words ... if you can't cough up a G5 for the Speaker, you had better tell her were your G5s are and who is using them so she can make a determination as to whether or not she is being slighted.

In another case Pelosi wanted her husband to tag along on a congressional trip to Iraq. The Pentagon had to remind Madam Speaker that spouses are not allowed to go along on military trips.

Public servant? Yeah right .. these people are our RULERS, folks. We are here to provide for them ...to provide a basis for their power. What good is a ruler without someone to rule? That would be us.



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What others are saying

  • Nancy's personal airline
    So if the commercial airlines are not "safe" enough for Nancy, then how can they be safe enough for the rest of us average people? Oh Yea us average people don't count. Nobody cares if we die.
  • Security
    is the reason she is flying on military aircraft.

    I'm as right wing as they come and have ZERO respect for Madam Speaker. She is the ultimate hypocrite and thinks she's the supreme ruler of the world, but the fact is that she is 3rd in line for the presidency and should have secure transportation. The next speaker of the house may be someone who would make a good president if necessary.

    Having said that, she should shut her mouth about how CEOs travel and someone should look into whether or not she is abusing this privilege. Even if it is proven she is abusing this, what can we do? She will continue to abuse this until Californians get a brain transplant and vote her out.

    Cronis Lee, don't be using my name in vane... Oh wait. You didn't. You used it just as I intended it to be used.
  • Copyleft
    Apparently Copyleft, you DO have Down Syndrome, because you just repeated the exact same thing you repeated earlier in the day. I guess you don't take the time to research into facts. However, why would we expect that from someone who probably web browses on a Speak & Spell machine. I do have a question though. How do they fit you for glasses when you have Down Syndrome? Aren't your eyes spread too far apart?
  • flying monkeys
    Every time I see her picture these days, all I can think of are flying monkeys.
  • Newt
    Flew Commercial. Check your facts Copylef, you might actually get something rightone day
  • Nancy Antoinette
    "Let them eat government C-H-E-E-S-E!"
  • Iraq
    slip some ambian in her drink on her next flight and drop her off in baghdad. Im sure they would love her over there.
  • Nancy's personal airline
    How did previous speakers of the house travel and why does she think she is so special? Maybe she should hitch a ride on a C-17 or C-5A. That way she could take her friends and family
  • Term Limits
    OK, guys (and gals), if these clowns won't impose term limits on themselves, I think it's about time to do it for them. I would challenge everyone to NOT vote for the incumbent in the mid-term elections next year. It may take a couple of election cycles for them to get it, but I ga-ron-tee that once they understand they work for US, stories like this will disappear.
  • Chugs!
    I think we are all saying the same thing buddy so chill! Geez, wait till ya been here awhile before you go spouting off like that, we'll put you in a room with Copy!
  • Stealing our tax dollars!
    This is total BS. Since when did Princess Nancy take so much priority. I don't recall any other Secretary of State having their butts kissed like she does. GROW A DAMN SPINE! Let her fly commercial or in baggage where she belongs or just let her fly her broom.
  • Proportion
    Yeah, it costs a lot to do this. But she is, after all, third in line of succession to be President and is a big security risk.

    If there's any evidence she's using military planes for non-official business than that needs to be stopped. But neither the article nor Neal's summary provides any such evidence.

    And, politically speaking, it looks extremely hypocritical for Republicans to be bellyaching about this when the previous Republican Speaker used military planes as well. No, that doesn't make it right, but it makes current complaints about the act look like nothing more than political bickering.
  • It's not the fact that she's using .mil aircraft...
    It's the fact that she needs to go coast to coast for "security reasons". I'm not quite clear as to why this is the case, since in all likelihood she would be landing on a .mil AFB for refueling anyway.
  • I think she won't use commercial flights because she fears having to face the people she is screwing over. Business/First Class or Coach, she is affecting them all.
  • Where is the line?
    Despite what the Speaker believes, there is only one person who controls the armed forces, and that is the Commander and Chief of the Armed forces, President Obama. However, that fact does not make me, and maybe many of you, feel at all better.
    I do not understand how this woman remains in the position she is in, and I will admit my ignorance to the fact. However, where is the line? Where is it said that the Speaker of the house has the right to even ASSUME that she has the ability to tell the Army and Air-Force what to do?
    The fact is that she misuses her power and we all know that. I can only ask, where is the line? When will we say "we have had enough"? This is our country and it's our lives that these people are playing with darn it. The military is made up of our sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers and she has no right to treat so many of the bravest men and women with such disrespect.
    Neal, where is the line? You are one of the most important men I know; men who have what it takes to stand up and say "No!" when everyone else bends over and asks "be gentle?"
  • Copy Left Still has It Wrong
    "Newt (and other Speakers) flew on military aircraft all the time, regularly."

    Maybe, but the difference is that they weren't using them to fly back and forth to their home district’s every fricking weekend. They were using them for the occasional Congressional Junket like any other self respecting politician.

    Maybe you better stick to arguing with the other slobbering moonbats over at the Daily KOOK.
  • Trolls
    shouldn't be fed but this copyleft is a real piece of work. Congressman do NOT get to send mail for free UNLESS it's for official business. Moreover, this privilege doesn't apply to everyone in their family. This is the same woman who had special tax dispensations written into law specifically for her families wineries...Unreal that she has any defenders, but leftism is terminal stupidity.
  • Princess Pelosi
    I say if we the tax payers are the ones footing the bill, we should get to pick the airline and the fare WE pay for this moron
  • Fly commercial
    Hey Nancy! Delta is ready when you are!
  • Pelosi
    Her aura is all about entitlement...for her. She acts as though she is supreme queen so why should we be surprised that she abuses the privilege of military aircraft for personal jaunts.
  • special protection?
    I think the liberals here are missing the point. Nancy Pelosi doesn't need special protection. On the contrary, and for the sake of the country, she should fly a rickety old cropduster at extremely high altitudes.
  • ?
    You people are ignorant fools! Neal was not being hypocritical but just pointing out the fact that nancy complains about CEO's flying on private jets while doing it herself so get a grip and grow up!
  • This is substantial, Copy
    This is the WORST recorded case of any elected official using military flights for so-called "business" purposes.

    She booked flights EVERY SINGLE weekend of the year, you tool. DON'T try to deflect this one, the FACTS say otherwise. Newt and others didn't even come CLOSE to this outrage.

    And BTW, that's MY TAX MONEY I'm whining about. I doubt you paid any so I can understand why you're so dismissive. After all, in your mind it's only "other people's money", part of the "wealth spread" you keep preaching about.
  • Solution
    The problem isn't (D) or (R) it is (I) for Incumbant...next couple of elections we should all vote against the incumbants...lets do a couple of election cycles of voting out all the sitting politicians and see if they straighten up their act.
  • Speakers flight
    Hey Copyleft,


    You missed the point. Newt never complained about a CEO flying to help his business. But Nancy sure has a problem with it. Maybe you should look up the term double standard.
  • Pelosi
    for security reasons? yea, everybody wants to beat the c&%$ out of her.
  • The right is still wrong
    Newt (and other Speakers) flew on military aircraft all the time, regularly.

    Hey, guess what? Did you also know that members of Congress can send mail for FREE? Gosh, what an OUTRAGE.

    Please, folks... come up with something substantial to whine about next time. This is just silly. I know you don't like being on the sidelines, but you have only yourselves to blame.
  • Our Rulers
    Wow.. talk about hypocrisy Neil..
    When the zealouts called your show last year talking about wholesale tyranny in our government they were all conspiracy kooks because the more sane and principled R's were in charge right...

    Now that the show is being run by the opposition you are starting to see how they ALL act and call it on face value.

    It is time for another 4/19/1775 me thinks.
  • Pelosi Aircraft Use
    I suggest that The Speaker fly COACH. She might learn a few things from U.S. Taxpayers!
  • Perhaps if pelosi spent more time in DC...
    ...the budget might not be so late every year. Everybody's supposed to tighted their belts and sacrifice EXCEPT the dp.

    Politicians who think auto execs should travel from Detroit to DC in hybrids(I wonder how much that drive time cost at their salary?), should be traveling to dc in hybrids themselves.

    Perhaps T in A can enlighten us on all those hypocritical conservatives that are down on private and corporate jets, yet fly them themselves?

    Dp motto should read Do as I say, not as I do.
  • Uhhh, take two
    And again, the Snopes article is about the validity of the rumour regarding the 200 seater. While it mentions current events it neither confirms nor denies their validity.
  • Queen Nancy
    What a twit.I didn't even read all of the story.Every story about her leads me to the same conclusion.What a twit.
  • Civil Servant?
    Heinlein wrote that in a mature society, the terms "Civil servant" and "Civil Master" are semantically the same. And while I'm sure it happens on both sides of the aisle, it seems the libs are only too happy to welcome the new overlords as long as they have (D) after their name.
  • What About the Carbon?
    I know her head emits a ton of helium every time she opens her mouth, what about the concern about our whole planet falling off its axis if carbon isn't controlled??
  • Military
    Mu understanding is that post 9-11, Bush ordered the VP and Speaker of the House to fly military because of security. That alone makes sense. It is the abusive nature of San Fran Nantoinette's requests that are irritating. And, why does she need to fly to CA EVERY WEEK???
  • district approval?
    Does her district really approve of this? It seems if people from SF that are so far left tht they would approve of someone like her ni the first place would have a huge problem with her using the largest most polluting possible method of transportation.

    FLY COMMERCIAL LIKE GINGRICH LORD PELOSI!

    You know they have a word for people like reid obama and pelosi.. and that word is "narcissist."
  • Wrong Again Copy
    Check your records and I think you will find that Newt traveled amost of the time on COMMERCIAL airlines.

    And besides, this started oput to be an issue days after to she took the speakers seat, one of the first things that she complained about was how small the plane for the speaker was.

    Nice Copy!
  • Queen Pelosi Can't Fly Commercial?
    So, Her Highness says that for security reasons she cannot fly commercial. Funny, I'm a professional in my mid-40s, working for a defense contractor, who flies commercially all the time. Since I usually travel alone, the TSA considers me eligible for "special" treatment before boarding. Maybe Ms. Pelosi just considers removing her shoes and getting the TSA's proctological exam beneath her station in life. She's so far removed from reality that she wouldn't recognize it if it landed in her lap and wiggled
  • Copyleft, Newt flew commercial!
    "More whining from the losers...
    ... Most of whom are ignorant of the fact that the Speaker of the House (up to and including the sainted Newt Gingrich himself!) have ALWAYS traveled on military aircraft at the public's expense. That's the rule, folks."

    I have already seen at least one article that cites Newt Gingrich as having flown commercial. Still looking for contrary evidence...

    http://www.creators.com/opinion/matthew-towery/sir-teddy-and-how-government-is-becoming-a-royal-class.html
  • Copyleft is an id*ot
    You don't even know what you're talking about, moron. Newt Gingrich NEVER used military craft to travel. He used commercial means, unless he was traveling with a group that required military support. Get your facts straight. Why do I even bother trying to say that? We all know you're going to drool another retarded statement out of that Down Syndrome head of yours.
  • I wrote to the speaker, have you?
    I just finished filling out a contact form, requesting that speaker Pelosi cease and desist using our military as her personal airline. Considering I'm not in her district, they probably just deleted it. But if she got 100,000 emails of the same thing, then she can't totally ignore it.
  • Copyleft wrong.....AGAIN
    Actually, the speaker of the house allowed this priviledge post 9/11

    Newt never had a private "service" to the extent that Pelocrazy has abused it.

    I say let her fly and once she is out of office she will need to pay back the taxpayer for ALL expenses not related to her job.

    After all she can afford it, that's if we want to be fair.

    Didn't know that people can turn off their brain on at the flip of a switch, I guess Copywrong isn't the only one. Most are in the democrat party
  • CopyLeft...
    I love how you dumb-o-crats justify wasteful spending with your elementary school logic. The Republican's did it, so it is ok. See if you can grasp this simple concept - It is OK for either party to do it!!! Stop this reckless spending!!! The only losers in all of this is the Average American who has to fund this wastful spending. Now I know this may be above the average grade level of understand for dumb-o-crats!
  • Darren and Atlas Shrugged
    Darren: I am working on Atlas Shrugged. It is a shame that it only took fifty years before the events of Atlas Shrugged came true in the US.
  • un-"Truth"
    Get real, haven't you been paying attention? Conservatives (note I did not say Republicans) have had it with all politicians so drop the tired talking points speech "you did the same thing" crap. The way things are right now, if anyone outside of NP did this, there would be very loud protests.

    And I still wanna just slap that smug smirk right off.... oh I guess she does have a security issue!
  • according to Karl Rove...
    Last night on Hannity, Rove explained that this whole Pelosi/aircraft thing is a security safeguard, since she is 3rd in line to the Presidency. Dennis Hastert and Pelosi both had this perk under Bush, and it is nothing new under the new President. The real issue is that in standard cases, Pelosi has to take a plane that makes a fuel stop half way to California, and she wants a jet that flies non-stop, of which there are very few. Yes, its a little much, but you can't really rail her for having government-paid transportation.
  • Nancy Pelosi is a disciple of P.T. Barnum
    What Barnum said: "It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
    According to Pelosi, voters are suckers.
  • Madam Pelosi
    Let Marie Nantionette Pelosi eat cake.
    Viva la America.
  • that smile
    I really thought she had that smile painted on but I actually saw it move (for just a second) when she was parading Mr Pitt around the other day. It was only a moment - but it did move!!

    That my friends is the smile of a shyster. Hmm, isn't that part of a German phrase?
  • Elitism Limousine Libs
    Having more than a passing knowledge of the goings on with regard to these flights, I am not surprised that Madame Speaker expects her perks, considering that she is the "Queen of the Entitled." It would be quite interesting to hear how Madame treats the flight crews during her travels, yet I know that the crews are highly professional and would never relay such information to the public. I can only surmise the behavior I witnessed firsthand with Congressional staffers. Many of them were the most vicious, inconsiderate, rude and hostile people I ever met.
  • More whining from the losers...
    ... Most of whom are ignorant of the fact that the Speaker of the House (up to and including the sainted Newt Gingrich himself!) have ALWAYS traveled on military aircraft at the public's expense. That's the rule, folks.
  • One person
    Typical arrogance. And not one person in Congress does anything about it because they love their position in power too much. Where's the outrage, except from talk radio? Pols bide their time hoping the next election will change the makeup; in the meantime, they sacrifice their country for their own means.
  • Uhhh
    You want to talk about doing research Read to the END of the snopes article. It still confirms that she was using aircraft to cart herself around, just that it wasn't a 200 seater jet. The bottom part of the article mentions current events while earlier on on the article is a story from 2008.

    Demo"crite".
  • This Is What You All Wanted
    This is the leadership the voting public wanted. If you are complaining right now but did not vote in the mid-term(2006) or last years election then you have nothing to say. If you didn't vote, you have to sit there and take it like the rest of us and in 2010, get off of your duffs and vote.
  • Lulz
    @Woodsey Owl: Replace "Democrats" with "Politicians" and you shall be correct.

    Or you could continue to pretend like your party has never done anything contrary to what they say, like the blind sheep most of you are. Just following along with what your masters tell you, bleating the same partisan rhetoric in response to the other side's bleating. Crack open any history book and it becomes quite obvious that both parties are full of hypocrites, and any one of them claiming that the other is the "party of hypocrites" just shows how laughably low American politics have degenerated to. How you've all devolved into a bunch of scared children clinging to whichever authority figure preaches your views the most.
  • Nancy and her airline
    Why in the @ell can't Madam Pelosi fly commercial??
  • Pelosi's motto w/r/t congress
    Drive it like you stole it.
  • you're paying for it
    Next time you're on a commercial flight, knees wedged against the seat in front of you, blubber spilling on to your lap and crushing you against the window, think of Nancy f***ing Pelosi sipping Grey Goose in an easy chair and whining to some peon about how you, a free market capitalist, are not paying your fair shair of taxes.
  • Hugs and Kisses
    Was it OK for me to repulsed to see here getting hugged by Richard Gere?
  • All that snopes article says is she did not order a 200 seat jumbo jet. I fail to see why, given her wealth she cannot afford to charter a jet. She does not nearly have the recognition of a Tipp or Newt. For those who want the judicial watch article itself.

    http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/mar/judicial-watch-uncovers-documents-detailing-pelosis-repeated-requests-military-travel
  • Pelosi 's call sign....BROOMSTICK-1
    I heard this from a military pilot that since the president is AIRFORCE-1 that Peloisi is BROOMSTICK-1.I doubt if this is true but it sure oughta be.
  • Hypocracy
    I read the snopes.com article on this and concede the security issue. I think the public's problem with this is that on one hand, Pelosi will criticize a CEO for using a private jet and then she does the same thing. The CEO's are using private jets for security reasons as well. Many companies have a policy to use a corporate jet so that the CEO will be more secure. They can be the victims of kidnapping or whatever.

    Pelosi uses this issue as well as CEO pay as a class-warfare wedge issue. In both cases, the comparative dollar value is small; but, agreeably the PR damage is far greater.
  • Why is this a surprise?
    Typical "Elitist Lib" Do as I say, not as I do.
  • Military Money
    Wait until the day the Air Force say "Sorry Madam Speaker, because of budget cuts to the military we have discontinued our fleet of transport jet aircraft, would you like to fly in a cargo C-130?"
  • Get your facts straight
    Hugo,

    Snopes is dealing with a different story.
  • Fact Finding Mission
    As one of her employers, It is my view we should all call the Pentagon to request a GS5 to fly to D.C. on a fact finding mission to find out why one of the galactically stupid is still in charge of the House
  • Atlas Shrugged
    Here's another situation where current events mirror Atlas Shrugged. In Atlas Shrugged, all of the high-ranking "civil servants" used their government clout to get special favors from others, often using the "you don't want to make him/her angry!"

    If you haven't read Atlas Shrugged you, you should!
  • Pelosi
    Democrats have always been the party of "Do as I say not as i do." Is anyone really surprised?
  • Air Pelosi
    Neal, I am sure you are just picking on Speaker Pelosi. You know President Obama is demanding Transparency with the government. He is really keen on publishing web pages. I suggest, 30 days after a flight, each flight manifest, cost and passenger list be published on this new webpage. I am sure the taxpayers would appreciate knowing how our tax dollars are spent. The President has asked for transparency.
  • Forget the Republic
    This country is on a bullet train ride to Oligarchy. And we don't even know it.
  • Pelosi
    I'm just wandering when she will pass a law that when she is being driven in her limo that all stop lights must be green for her driver as not to slow them down.
  • Princess Pelosi and the lemmings
    It is no surprise that Pelosi soaks the taxpayer at every turn for her benefit, what never ceases to amaze me is that her devoted followers are happy to give her and her ilk a pass, even though the money comes out of their pockets as well.
  • Nancys Airline
    Neal, as a non evil, rich, putrid and disgusting rich person[ though I do pretty good as a result of hard work] I also want a G5 to ferry me around. I hear that these are really sweet aircraft! Any chance that PrezBo will let us common folk fly around on one of these things? But I HAVE to get some little Sgt female hottie to bring me drinks!
  • Use of her fleet of planes
    Is this considered a taxable benefit? Why is this differnt than Daschl's use of a friends limo?
  • Copyleft and Hugo's Ghost
    Perhaps either one of you can drive her around town in your cars. You believe it's acceptable to fork over your cash to support these people and you're in love with her, so head on over and hook this woman up!! That way, you're paying your "fair share" and you won't be depriving anyone else of their hard earned money.
  • Net Dog needs to get off his a@@!
    snopes is way ahead of you and your lazy researchers:

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/jet.asp
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