Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Didn't they excoriate the big CEO's for behavior like this? Actual, the CEO's weren't this bad: Revealed: Pelosi's 'Air Rage'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gone from frequent flier to jet-aircraft connoisseur, with aides berating military officials to get the best planes, e-mails revealed yesterday.
Pelosi, who clashed with the military to get nonstop service when she flies home to California with police protection on government planes, revealed a particular fondness for Gulfstream's sleek G-5 - a plane glamorized in Hollywood films and rap videos.
"It is my understanding there are no G-5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable . . . The speaker will want to know where the planes are," a Pelosi aide wrote in an angry e-mail to the military...
Nice.
Pelosi in a toga, underlings subjected to knowing, demanding glances and moods; life in the imperium.
Then again, a Gulfstream G-5 (emirates and Saudis are known to have their share), once one becomes accustomed, must be difficult to part with. So a degree of sympathy and compassion is surely called for in such cases, given Pelosi's ideological qua compassionate bona fides, so often on display, on cue.