Fly me to the loon.

This post has me humming "Leaving on a Jet Plane". In reality, I'd rather she was just leaving. The woman who sits two heart beats away from the Presidency of the United States seems to have developed an air of superiority akin to those of Rock Stars and their "no green M&M" riders in the Green Room contracts regarding her taste in and demands for travel. Perhaps she is feeling cocky because, after all, the economic crisis isn't that bad after all.

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, is stockpiling a Jumbo Jet of carbon to someday offset in her cross country and cross-Atlantic jaunts in large military aircraft. Judicial Watch has FOIAed emails detailing the air headed one's requests (read: demands) for aircraft and services from the DoD for her air travel between Washington, DC and her home district in California.

Our first hint that Pelosi's demands would soon make J-Lo's oddities on her concert riders seem as inane as the Jonas Brothers was way back in 2007 when she insisted the plane at her disposal be slightly larger than the 12-seater provided the previous speaker, Dennis Hastert, after 9-11 to aid in security. Nancy would require a 42-seat Air Force carrier to ferry her, her staff and probably lots of shoes from work in Washington to the City by the Bay.

ABC News is giving the high flying Speaker a pass but, if you read through the list of email exchanges, you'll see that, at least in terms of expected privileges, power corrupts.

I don't really have a problem with the person third in line to head our country having use of a military or private aircraft. After all, seeing someone of this prominence screaming and yelling because their plane left on time would be too tasty a fodder to pass up. I have many other problems with the person third in line to head our country; her being an ultra left liberal loon being foremost among them and I do think using large jets so that every relative, staffer and campaign contributor can ride along is excessive. Use of a private charter is less than military aircraft and, with the huge deficits in our country, maybe those in Congress could chip in a few frequent liar (sic) miles and get Nancy a ticket.

I say have some fun and read through Judicial Watch's collection of emails and then read commentary here, here and here.