Congressional privilege

Courtesy of my friend Bill Calloway, this splendid rant about Nancy Pelosi and her travel problems:

Nancy Pelosi wasn't happy with the small private jet that comes with the Speaker's job... no, Madame Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered up a big fat two-hundred-seat jet that could get her back to California without stopping! Since she only works three days a week, this gas-guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California. Cost to the taxpayers: about $60,000 one way!
Unfortunately we have to pay to bring her back on Monday night, too. Cost to us, another $60,000.
That is $480,000 per month and an annual cost to the taxpayers of $5,760,000! No wonder she complains about the cost of this war... it might cramp her style, and she is stylin', on my back and yours.
I think of the military families in this country doing without, and this woman, who heads up the most do-nothing Congress in the history of this country, keeps fueling that jet while doing nothing. Madame Pelosi wants you and me to conserve our carbon footprint. She wants us to buy smaller cars, and Obama wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires. These people are nuts. Keep in mind the figures above do not include cost of plane or crew, just fuel! One wonders what her total package cost us? And she wants to tax our IRAs & 401Ks!