Hits & Misses – 2009/8/11
Obama to email list: Bypass town hall meetings and go straight to you Congress member's office.
"She had fun, fun, fun ‘til her daddy took her T-Bird away."
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And Nancy pelosi will have fun, fun, fun until we take her G 550 away.
How else will Congress be able to conduct their fact-finding trips to Aruba — if not in a private jet? A Congressional junket isn’t quite the same if it is taken on commerical aircraft.
And the request for a few new jets doesn’t even scratch the surface. The Air Force maintains an entire fleet of luxury jets (the 89th Airlift) at Andrews Air Force Base, specifically for use by top government officials.
Brian, Congress needs their own fleet of luxury jets to avoid having to rub elbows with all the “little people” who pay taxes! Besides, you undoubtedly have experienced how inconvenient commercial air travel has become since Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. Members of Congress need private jets to avoid suffering the indignity of security screenings by the Transportation Security Administration, that the rest of us must endure.
This just in from the Wall Street Journal. Congressional leaders dropped plans to spend $550 on eight luxury jets. Instead, the House will only ask for the four planes the Pentagon original wanted – including military versions of a Gulfstream V and three Boeing 373s. At a reduced cost of $220 million, our Congressional leaders just saved taxpayers $330 million!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124994604394620857.html
These idiots in congress,(both sides), think they they deserve more luxury?? I say not until they have lived homeless for at least a year, without health-insurance, without a job or maybe a job at minimum wage (scince congress seems to think that a minimum wage job is more than enough to live on).
Until congress keeps its word, (as said in their oaths of office), and protect the american public from enemies both foriegn and domestic (insurance companies are a great example of a domestic enemy), should they be allowed the convenience of a bathroom break let alone a private jet. Let them take regulare flights like we do. Nothing like a cornered politician in a crowded airplane with some unhappy constituents to bring a smile to one’s face!
As for the town hall meetings. There is no point to going to a townhall meeting.
1) ALL townhall meetings are scripted. Rep or dem doesn’t matter
2) with all the shouting no-one hears anything anyway
3) while many are not “a mob”, there are some tea-baggers that are there for nothing but disruption as directed verbatim by Radio conservatives, (I heard that on Hannity for myself)
4) it won’t make any difference what American citizens want anyway, insurance will bribe its way out yet again
Having said that, I plan to attend a town-hall held by republican Phil Roe. Bet that when I get loud, (and I will get loud), I will be called all sorts of things, told to shut up, be called “the mob”. All for doing the same exact thing that tea-baggers are doing. That is the thing with conservatives. Let a conservative behave in an immature fashion and disrupt proceeding and its called passionate.
Let me or another “liberal”, (I’m not a liberal, I just happen to support healthcare reform), act the same way and we aren’t passionate but being disruptive. The hypocrasy of conservatives screams almost as loud as Limbaugh on an irrational rant that would get an animal put down for rabies. He even foams at the mouth, (watch him on tv and you’ll actually see spittle flying from his mouth!)
Yes I’m going and I’m going to ask a couple of very tough questions that conservatives refuse to deal with honestly.
As for the CBO and their “middle-class” taxes:
So what else is new?
Bush drove his “economy” on the backs of the middle and lower classes, reduced every tax on the wealthy and buisnesses. We of the lower income brackets are used to it.
Dem or Rep— the poor salways carry the largest burden of support. The only difference being that at least under democratic rule, we lower classes actually get some attention rather than the republican ideal of ignoring everyone that doesn’t clear a million in a year.