Jim Webb Pulls a Pelosi
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I have an article up at Human Events on just how low Jim Webb (D-VA) has sunk in the Senate.
He has holds on four appointees to the Pentagon. Why? Well, he claims the holds are related to wanting questions on Blackwater Worldwide from the Pentagon. But he's received those answers and still won't release the holds.
So why are the holds really there?
Sen. Webb is expected to travel on a tax-payer funded junket to Southeast Asia. He wants both his wife and his 18 month old child to accompany him without having to pay reimbursement to the government. Unfortunately, according to a March 9, 2007, letter from Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), while spouses are permitted to go with the Senator, “relatives of Senators (other than spouses) will not be permitted to travel with Senate delegations.”
You can read the whole article here.
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...because my wife is attending an engineering conference there on behalf of the Navy (she's a civilian worker for them). It's going to be a fun trip. We should have a blast. The grandparents are salivating at the thought of a week of grandchild time without mere parents getting in the way. The government isn't going to reimburse me one dime for any of this.
Then again, I'm not a sitting US Senator who has... levers to pull.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
I certainly respect his Vietnam service. However, I met him at the USNA during his short tenure as an instructor - a bit unstable temper wise but totally focused on himself. A couple of decades later, he is still just another self-centered politician who's in the game for the good deals. Sad to say, there's nothing more to the guy.
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
to gripe about his travel vouchers? Are you joking?
No, obviously not. That's the sort of garbage that floated to the top of the harbor in the elect-a-fool year of 2006.
'Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a
delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted
by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds
forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick
up a turd by the clean end.'
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