Thursday, December 17, 2009

SNOW JOB AT GLOBAL WARMING CONFERENCE: Pelosi and 20 other 'idiots' flying to Copenhagen on 5 private jets at YOUR expense. WTF?!?


NANCY PELOSI Burning lots of jet fuel and wasting hundreds of thousands of YOUR tax dollars for a free vacation. A farce!

Pelosi's climate air farce - NY Post

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading a large delegation on at least two Air Force jets to Copenhagen for the climate summit -- where participants harshly condemn the use of jet airplanes for the high amounts of CO2 they emit.

"This may be the largest congressional delegation I have ever heard of," said a source at the 89th Air Wing stationed at Andrews Air Force Base of the trip to the UN summit, which is increasingly being criticized as a farce.

Using her authority as speaker, Pelosi reserved at least two jets based at Andrews AFB to fly her and her delegation to Denmark for the final days of the two-week conference.

But Republicans on Capitol Hill and the 89th Air Wing source said Pelosi actually reserved five planes to carry a delegation that includes as many as 24 Democrats and six Republicans.

At a time when Democrats are grappling with a host of major issues from health-care reform to the financial crisis, Pelosi planned yesterday to clip short the workweek to make the climate summit.

"Climate change is a religion for them, so there was no way they were going to miss this," said one top GOP aide. "This is their Hajj."

A Democratic source insisted that the delegation would be using just two planes but would not specify further.

While the final manifest remained in flux late yesterday, it was said to include more than two dozen members of Congress, several spouses and committee staffers.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) was among those planning to go because of his duties as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, a staffer told The Post.

"We all know that Charlie Rangel is a big fan of subsidizing his vacation with taxpayer money, but the truly offensive aspect of this is Nancy Pelosi's decision to bring the corrupt Harlem Democrat along for the ride," said Republican spokesman Ken Spain.

The 89th Air Wing's biggest planes are the military versions of the Boeing 757 and the Boeing 737.

The 757 carries 45 passengers and costs more than $10,000 per hour to fly, according to Air Force figures.

The roundtrip cost to Copenhagen and back for the C-32A would cost taxpayers $160,000
The 737 carries 26 passengers and costs about $7,500 per hour of flight time, bringing the costs of a Copenhagen jaunt to $120,000.

The smaller Gulfstreams hold 12 passengers apiece, but only the Gulfstream V has the range to reach Copenhagen from Washington without refueling. It costs more than $4,300 per hour to fly, bringing that taxpayer tab to more than $68,000 for a weekend in Copenhagen.

These figures do not include the cost of keeping the planes and flight crews on the ground in Copenhagen.

churt@nypost.com

5 comments:

  1. To paraphrase John Wayne "it's a tough world out there and it's tougher when you are stupid".
    And Nancy is not the brightest bulb on the tree.

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  2. IT LOOKS LIKE SHE.S BEEN BREATHING JET FUMES

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  3. I,M SICK O THESE DOUBLE STANDARDS !!

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  4. AMERICA BETTER WAKE UP- START GOING TO TEA PARTIES, PUTTING OUT YOUR LAWN SIGNS, HIT THE BLOGS, PUT BUMPER STICKERS ON YOUR CARS, TALK TO NEIGHBORS, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AND CO-WORKERS. TELL THEM TO LISTEN TO RUSH, SAVAGE AND WATCH BECK EVERY NIGHT. MAKE AN EMAIL LIST OF EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND SEND THEM LINKS TO SITES LIKE THIS AND FOX NATION, WORLD NET DAILY AND HOT AIR AND NEWSBUSTERS. GET OUT AND VOTE. JOIN A LOCAL CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERTARIAN PARTY TO HELP THEIR CANDIDATES WIN ELECTIONS. IF EVERYONE DOES THERE SMALL PART WE WILL TAKE EVERYTHING AND FINALLY FIX THIS MESS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

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  5. yeah i see the way barack checks out her thighs when she wears short skirts and no underwear.

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