Hot Air : Congress buys 3 private jets for $200 million
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Normally, that would be considered an earmark. However, since Appropriations merely expanded a line item instead of creating one, it didn’t require the member to identify him/herself. Instead, the jet-setter will remain anonymous — and Congress as a whole can take the blame for passing it.
How about it, America? Does this Congress need three more private jets, or even one? Should they not fly commercial like the rest of us? Considering the massive deficits this administration and the Democrats in Congress now run — much worse than anything remotely imagined at GM, Chrysler, or Ford — should they not hold themselves to the standard they dramatically demanded from the CEOs of the automakers last November?
August 5, 2009 - 01:21 PM on August 5th, 2009
More hypocrisy and double-standard from these vermin who have long since forgotten they are supposed to be public servants.
Yet the idiot masses keep reelecting them…