And you thought it was hard being an old person! Imagine being an innocent jet, of either the fighter or the passenger variety. You would be completely penniless, thanks to a pack of flightless bipeds in the United States Congress.
First the Obama administration MURDERED the F-22 fighter jet, for sport. And now a couple of senators are banding together in a Circle of Outrage over the doubled appropriations amount for some passenger jets that will be used to fly senators around the world.
The Obama administration had sought $220 million to buy four passenger jets, including two that are currently being leased by the Air Force, to replace a fleet of older planes. Before leaving town for the August break, House lawmakers doubled the aircraft order to eight, at a total cost of $550 million.
The House Appropriations Committee’s reasoning was this: that they would need the jets eventually, and in the meantime operating the old jets cost a lot of money so why not buy ‘em now? In other words, this is Cash for Clunkers write large.
Thus concludes possibly the dullest post ever written on your Wonkette. Just remember that jets are terribly out of fashion these days.
Opposition Emerges to House’s Jet Spree [Wall Street Journal]
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What will be the fate of Bennie?
Better than Max Baucus, world’s most corrupt elected representative, having all his travel paid for by health care lobbyists who promise a happy ending massage before landing.
This is going to end up with more of those ads where Harrison Ford tells me how awesome General Aviation is, isn’t it?
What about the sharks?
Que “Jetters” to protest Democratic town hall meetings…
Maybe we can rent them some helicopters too.
and let them fly over the hudson.
Ruh Roh!
[re=382067]freakishlystrong[/re]: Or Sharks.
Thus concludes possibly the dullest post ever written on your Wonkette.
I concur, and eagerly await the next post, which should contain all of the following: gratuitous buttsecks, hot Argentinian mistresses, toe-tapping bathroom goblins, and Bill O’Reilly pleasuring himself with an eggplant. Also.
[re=382066]rmontcal[/re]: Yeah, I didn’t see that.
But think, the Sharks = PRs = Sonia Sotomayor. Sonia Sotomayor will smite (knife to shreds) Pelosi.
Could be fun.
So if four planes cost $220 mil, and they double the order, why does the cost got to $550 mil? Couldn’t they just buy two separate sets of four, for a total of $440 mil? Why are those damn libruls in congress so fiscally retarded so?
by 4, get and additional 4, for more than double the cost!
[re=382073]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: So, a post about Republicans then?
[re=382077]idiot son of an asshole[/re]:
Different manufacturers. First four were Gulfstream. 2nd four were Boeing.
Truth is when you factor in the R&D development, these 8 jets are still cheaper, less prone to rain and probably more useful than a single F-22.
[re=382077]idiot son of an asshole[/re]: It’s the old government adage: Why buy only one set of ridiculously overpriced things when you can get twice as many at more than double the cost?
Pelosi has plans for a fly-over of Congressional jets at the Superbowl game.
[re=382077]idiot son of an asshole[/re]: Oh, Congress. Even when you try to think long-term you fuck it up.
15 posts in and all the good Elton John/Westside Story puns have been taken.
[re=382077]idiot son of an asshole[/re]: I figured it was like one of those deals you get at target on laundry soap.
Please post more videos of birther/deather morans disrupting recess town hall meetings with chanting:
What do we want? No health care!
When do we want it? We already got it!
Forbes got rid of his jet, Even Forbes Is Pinching Pennies. So, if everybody’s getting rid of their jets, does Maria Bartiromo just stay home now?
[re=382077]idiot son of an asshole[/re]: good point idiot son.
[re=382096]Come here a minute[/re]: just say ‘no’?
It’s Time For Colin Powell To Switch Party
http://msmpost.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1345/2009-08-05.html
Jets are so over. What we need today is a fleet of ornithopters.
[re=382091]anonryan[/re]: Well, the “what’s Joan gonna do without a last name?” turf is still wide open. Oops.
Next, JayJay the Jet Plane will be called before the Obama Death Panel.
Wow, slow news day, Wonkette. Make Riley take off his shirt(!!!).
So. The gist is that it is just to jettison bombless jets as jetsam when they are just for Demo-jerks on their jaunts.
Just wanted to say I commented on the dullest post ever written on our Wonkette. Someday the grandkids might ask.
[re=382123]dennymcden[/re]: …but keep his hat on.
[re=382108]Foolitics[/re]: Surely our time would be better spent debating the merits of Foolitics‘ post on Colin Powell. Though I checked and it seems Foolitic is actually a convicted child sex offender who trolls Wonkett looking for some infant strange, otherwise known as “Colin Powell.”
[re=382128]sezme[/re]: And I just commented on a comment on the dullest post ever written on our Wonkette. This is starting to feel Escher-esque.
[re=382132]user-of-owls[/re]: Oh my god I’ve gone cross-eyed.
[re=382110]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Personally, I plan to get around on the back of a giant sandworm. Whenever it encounters traffic, it just eats everything in front of it.
[re=382108]Foolitics[/re]: Y’know, an article really isn’t an article until you include, well, some articles. “A,” “An,” “The” all work quite nicely. And, when inserted properly, they also tend to alleviate any reader headaches.
Also, as a friendly reminder: this is Wonkette. Bring the funny or STFU.
[re=382066]rmontcal[/re]: [re=382072]Noonan[/re]: Shark Week was last week.
You see, there’s always another level of dull below any dullness you can think of. There’s some kind of theorem about that.
Will they at least offer the jets end of life counseling?
[re=382168]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Stop attacking Trig!!!
I always assumed the congressional critters were reclined atop gilded palanquins when they traveled. They ride in Jets, huh? So where do the lobbyists who feed them grapes and assiduously scrub their nether regions with quivering tongues sit?
[re=382135]Cape Clod[/re]: Ornithopters are the ideal conservative mode of transportation. Da Vinci made designs for them, therefore they hearken back to an idealized past; they would be nifty as hell if they worked; and they don’t work. What’s not to love?
[re=382142]Mahousu[/re]: You’re thinking of Meacham’s Razor.
A pair of water wings and a 40% open snorkel, and possibly a skateboard, are sufficient for the travel needs of members of congress.
[re=382108]Foolitics[/re]: I pity the fool[itics]
Nice glasses though.
The Biz Markie rendition of Bennie and the Jets is still up on youtube.
Fear not, the massively expensive F-35 is still an out of control locomotive charging through rows of Yankees, Rebels and Norwegians equally. It is unclear if F-35 is actually any better than the F-16 or Saab Gripen but the fact that it can land and, if lightened up, take off vertically will make it a star at airshows.
Yea more jets are probably the last thing we need right now. But Ill tell you what we do need: more responsibility in congress. I read a simple idea for how to get our representatives to be more responsible to us: just make their pay dependent on their performance. http://thestimulist.com/no-constituency-left-behind/
It’s obvious why they hate jets: the right wing is just the same as the left wing. And we can’t have that, now can we?
Where is Billy Mays when you need him? But wait, there is more!
Dull? I think it’s hilarious–aren’t these justifications the exact same ones that were given by Citigroup when it tried to sell two old jets to buy one new one that it was going to need anyway and was going to buy cheaper by doing it now, until the libtards in Congress shot it down?
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