Pelosi: I want the same plane as the President!
Dr. Rumack: Surely you can't be serious.
Posted on 02/07/2007 5:42:02 PM PST by Hadean
A source close to the controversy over the request made by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for use of a military plane that can fly to and from her home district in San Francisco, Calif., without having to stop to refuel, tells ABC News that the Pentagon has rebuffed Pelosi's request.
The source says that Pentagon officials and the Bush administration have instead offered Pelosi use of the same plane made available to former Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois: a C-20, which seats about 12 passengers and five crew members.
A C-20 can make the 700-mile flight to Hastert's Aurora, Ill., district easily but would generally have to stop to refuel to complete the 2,800-mile trip from Washington D.C. to the San Francisco Bay Area, depending on the headwinds.
Pelosi has expressed concern about having to stop and refuel, primarily for security reasons, her office says. Since 9/11, the Speaker of the House — second in line behind the Vice President in the line of presidential succession — has been able to use a military plane for travel, for security reasons.
In response to the Pentagon offer, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly tells ABC News, "We appreciate the Defense Department's continuing concern for the Speaker's security. We are reviewing their letter."
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LOL.
Glad they rejected her... she's a piece of garbage.
To hell with San Francisco and their anti-military scum.
That's news to me. Could you cite the exact clause of the Constitution that says the Speaker would have to resign before becoming President?
Reference my post# 172.
This is nonsense: "Under the principle of separation of powers, the Constitution specifically disallows legislative officials from also serving in the executive branch. For the Speaker or the President pro tempore to become President, they must resign their position, at which point they are no longer in the line of succession. This forms a constitutional paradox to some."
The Speaker on becoming President would no longer be Speaker. Were the President and Vice President to die, the Speaker of the House becomes President. That's the law, and that's what would happen.
what really should piss people off is the fact we have servicemen flying airplanes tha often times are older than they are.
My buddy flys an ANG KC135 that was made in the 1960s.
Give her a Fokker trimotor....
OHMYGOSH. ...Looks like she's not going to stand a CHANCE against the 'Red Baron'...!
Nice one!
Yeah, right. You may believe it but it won't happen without a court battle.
It would happen before the President's body is cold, and no court would have any say in the matter. BTW, you may be interested in the blog at my website. Cheers,
It's mentioned in the article. The difference is Hastert lives much closer to DC.
Pelosio.....You piece of crap!..You want fighter protection to and from California also??
Yes, he does. But she certainly doesn't need that big of a plane to go nonstop to San Francisco.
You mean that SCOTUS would get involved? That, I believe.
I agree. Give her the same size plane with an extra fuel tank and be done with it.
Does any one remember what the MSM did to Nancy Reagan when she bought new china for the Whitehouse?
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