Pelosi may be right on the substance, but the symbolism is awful. She insists she didn't ask for the plane, but if a military flight is needed, she wants a nonstop to San Francisco. The average voter will be left wth an image of her flying around on a jumbo jet in the lap of luxury.
Uh-huh. Well, it seems that the right-wing media noise machine, as enabled by their friends like Howie have gotten off to a great start.
Gee, does anyone remember how well the Big Cry-Baby Newt "I am the future of the republican party" Gingrich did after he was "slighted" by The Big Dog? Seems that he left town just ahead of the torches and pitchforks, and that was just the republican torch-and-pitchfork brigade. The Manufactured Outrage machine goes on.
I suggest Mrs. Pelosi and her hubby buy fractional ownership in a really nice Gulfstream, and write it all off as a non-reimbursed business expense. Hell, they can afford it. But that's not really the question here. If the republicans had maintained control of the House, would anyone be bitching if David Drier had become Speaker (unlikely, that) and asked for a bigger plane to fly coast-to-coast. No. Any Democrat who could even get floor time to talk about it would be branded "unpatriotic America-haters" for wishing the Speaker ill.
