TRUE DEM HYPOCRISY!
The NY Post gets it right on Congressional hypocrisy. I post the entire editorial:
Flights of Fancy
August 10, 2009
Remember the outrage from members of Congress when the auto industry executives flew private jets to Washington to plead for bailout money?
Apparently, House Democrats don't.
Or, if they do, they don't care.
House Democratic leaders neatly snuck into the 2010 defense appropriations bill an extra $132 million to pay for two extra C-37B private jets to haul congressmen around the country.
As Capitol Hill's Roll Call reported, the Air Force had requested one such jet -- for the general use of government officials and military brass.
But House Democrats, being who they are, couldn't stop there: They authorized the purchase of three jets, for a total cost of $200 million.
As Roll Call notes, the C-37B is the Air-Force equivalent of "the Gulfstream G550 . . . a luxury business jet, which the company advertises as featuring long-range flight capacity that 'easily links Washington, D.C., with Dubai, London with Singapore and Tokyo with Paris.' "
The jets will be conveniently stowed at Andrews Air Force base -- just a short limo ride from Capitol Hill.
Now, maybe we missed something, but isn't this the Congress that:
* Says it wants to cut spending?
* Is so environment-conscious that it regularly complains about the evil carbon footprints allegedly left by private jets?
* Just authorized another $2 billion (for a total of $3 billion) to fund a "Cash for Clunkers" program to get private citizens to abandon gas-guzzling private vehicles?
We further wonder why Congress couldn't have just picked up a couple of bargains shopping among the jets that Citibank, other Wall Street firms and auto-industry executives have put up for sale over the last year.
Ah, it must be that congresspeople don't do second-hand flying.
An embarrassed Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) vows to strip the House funding when the appropriations bill comes up for a vote in the Senate.
Good for her.
That it was authorized in the first place says a whole lot about the House's priorities -- and rank hypocrisy.
Flights of Fancy
August 10, 2009
Remember the outrage from members of Congress when the auto industry executives flew private jets to Washington to plead for bailout money?
Apparently, House Democrats don't.
Or, if they do, they don't care.
House Democratic leaders neatly snuck into the 2010 defense appropriations bill an extra $132 million to pay for two extra C-37B private jets to haul congressmen around the country.
As Capitol Hill's Roll Call reported, the Air Force had requested one such jet -- for the general use of government officials and military brass.
But House Democrats, being who they are, couldn't stop there: They authorized the purchase of three jets, for a total cost of $200 million.
As Roll Call notes, the C-37B is the Air-Force equivalent of "the Gulfstream G550 . . . a luxury business jet, which the company advertises as featuring long-range flight capacity that 'easily links Washington, D.C., with Dubai, London with Singapore and Tokyo with Paris.' "
The jets will be conveniently stowed at Andrews Air Force base -- just a short limo ride from Capitol Hill.
Now, maybe we missed something, but isn't this the Congress that:
* Says it wants to cut spending?
* Is so environment-conscious that it regularly complains about the evil carbon footprints allegedly left by private jets?
* Just authorized another $2 billion (for a total of $3 billion) to fund a "Cash for Clunkers" program to get private citizens to abandon gas-guzzling private vehicles?
We further wonder why Congress couldn't have just picked up a couple of bargains shopping among the jets that Citibank, other Wall Street firms and auto-industry executives have put up for sale over the last year.
Ah, it must be that congresspeople don't do second-hand flying.
An embarrassed Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) vows to strip the House funding when the appropriations bill comes up for a vote in the Senate.
Good for her.
That it was authorized in the first place says a whole lot about the House's priorities -- and rank hypocrisy.
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