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Honestly, I don't.

By Moe Lane Posted in Congress — Comments (1) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

We're a superpower, like it or not: it behooves us to have our legislators go far foreign in some sort of swank. So I don't go nuts about having them get that swank, even if it goes for seventy large a pop:

More Equal Than Others

With exquisite timing, Boeing chooses a travel weekend that could go down in the annals of airborne horror to deliver a top-of-the-line Boeing Business Jet that will be assigned to Congress - those folks who have charged billions in air travel taxes over the decades and left us with 1930s blind-landing technology. The jet took off from Seattle this morning for its base at Scott AFB in Illinois.

(Via Glenn Reynolds)

However.

Read on.

However, this is a bad time for that particular bill to show up. We've got a $195 billion military appropriation hung up because Congressional Democrats want to play chicken with American lives*; couple that with the rumblings that this is going to be an absolutely miserable travel weekend, and you're left with the impression that a certain percentage of the population will not be as forgiving as I about these Congressional perks.

Let me put it another way: Representative David Obey? Representative John Murtha? If you won't give the troops the money that they need, fly coach. Both of you badly need the lesson in humility it'd teach.

Moe Lane

*We will dispense with the pretense that the Democrats' $50 billion "alternative" is anything except an exercise in self-deception. I don't know what would be a worse judgment upon them: that their daytime behavior gives them screaming nightmares, or that it doesn't.