February 10, 2007

No need for Air Force Three

By Matt May
Forget Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrogance in voting to raise the gas tax on Americans five times while she is squired around the Federal City in a government SUV that is exempt from such a tariff. Forget that a single trip on a presidential-like Defense Department jet for the Speaker and her minions from Washington to San Francisco and back would cost the Treasury $300,000 while round-trip tickets on commercial airlines start at a little over $200. Forget that the amount of fuel it would take that plane to haul Speaker Pelosi's fat staff would render her carbon footprint bigger than Sasquatch's - or even Al Gore's. Forget that the Speaker is demanding a state-of-the-art communications system on her military plane that rivals that of the executive and forget that the White House is apparently not going to object to this abject ridiculousness.Forget all that for a moment. Instead, try and remember when the Speaker of the House of Representatives suddenly ascended to the equivalent of the...(Read Full Article)