Is that a shrub in your pocket...
Friday, February 09, 2007
Shocking
I am shocked - shocked I tell you - to learn of the amount of money wasted on flying the Speaker of the House back to the Speaker's home district office. Specifically, I mean the demand by former speaker Denny Hastert that he be flown the piddly 700 miles from DC to Chicago in a military C-20. Wake up sheeple! This is an enormous jet (a goddamn jet!) airplane with a wingspan of nearly 80 feet. Even worse, it has two Rolls Royce jet engines. Rolls Royce! That's not even American! We've been ferrying this fat bastid around in a goddamn flying Rolls Royce, when a Cessna Skylane 182T with a range of 773 miles at 18,000 feet, would easily do the job (assuming the whiny baby is too important to stop off in Buffalo to refuel). And it'll hold 1,140 pounds, which is enough for Denny, his lunch pail, and maybe even one or two of his minions. It might take him a little longer to get there, but since the odds are he's already wearing adult diapers, I don't see a problem with that.
I demand that the Senate Ethics Committee investigate this frivolous travesty.
