Air Force Three

Could we please get Nancy Pelosi’s damned plane off the news already?

The White House should now be involved and dictate the solution. It’s the military that reports to the President who is providing the transport. It’s a 3-minute decision – if there is a coherent national security strategy in place – even if the President and his national security team drag their feet.

If that assumed coherent national security policy dictates providing this military protection to Speaker Pelosi to travel home to California, then why would it not be necessary to provide protection to a conference 150 miles away in Williamsburg, Virginia? If there were a terrorist (or other fanatical jack-ass) strike against our leadership structure, she or anyone else targeted would be just as dead if attacked on a trip to Williamsburg as on the way home to California.

This begs the question “Does the use of this military aircraft constitute part of a national security strategy or is it merely another perk of office?" If it is a security measure, then she needs to be protected ALL the time; the protection and accommodation Dennis Hastert had appears to have been appropriate. Any more would be a perk (by my definition of government waste) and would be blatantly breaking the promise to reduce waste under a Democrat Congress. If it is not a security measure, it is a perk, and should be eliminated. Nancy Pelosi should decline the plane and we should all congratulate her on eliminating waste in government and keeping the one reasonable Democrat campaign promise that was made.

She (or one of her people) is correct when they claim she should not be punished for being a woman or for living farther away from Washington than Dennis Hastert. Neither should she be rewarded on either count.

I am very much not a fan Nancy Pelosi, her politics, or her tactics, but she is entitled (and more importantly we are entitled) to whatever security is appropriate to her position. It’s not fun for me to speak in her defense, so I wish that whoever the idiots are that are holding up this legitimate security issue would get off their dead asses and resolve it, or, alternatively, leave public service and leave the resolution to someone competent.

Apparently, the first step is a coherent security strategy – one that you at the top can explain in terms that we here at the bottom can understand.

This is one more in a long list of distractions and sideshows that we at the bottom can’t afford and neither can you at the top. The difference is that we at the bottom know it; you at the top don’t appear to.
Let’s hear what that security strategy is so that after the media has O.D.’d on Anna Nicole Smith, we can move on to the next issue. That would be whether the vocal citizens of San Francisco will protest the presence of the United States Military in their city to protect one of their own and whether they will turn on Nancy Pelosi for allowing this unspeakable invasion.