Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze'

I'm a little rusty here so maybe somebody will help me out with this. If something bad happened to VP Biden wouldn't Pelosi be next Vice-President?

Agreed. We have serious problems to address and not made up stories by the world net daily that only has recognition among the republican base.

Lets face it the republicans will try to do anything to make the democrats fail because if the democrats succeed it's game over for the republicans.

Yes that would mean that reason and logic trumps lies and failure.

If I had approval ratings as low as hers, I'd be drinking profusely as well :]

i dont even know what to say but I never liked Pelosi anyway. edbr claims it is a perk...a $101,000 perk?! if this is true, she sounds like a dishonest, greedy alcoholic that should not be in government. she needs the betty ford clinic, if that still exists.

seems like its not the first time she has wasted taxpayer money, but wait let me guess the flowers were needed

Taxpayers buy Pelosi $16K worth of flowers
http://current.com/items/89104709_taxpayers-buy-pelosi-16k-worth-of-flowers.htm

your source sucks...I'd rather myself pay for it then some company CEO. Quit trying to turn Pelosi's name into a dirty word, it's getting old.

It's not her fault the prices are outrageous. I prefer a politician that drinks. Shows a little humanity in them.

How about the Booze slarabee , did bush request that also?

why isn't this a crime?

if any employee of any company was caught using company money to buy alchohol for a party with fellow employees, guests, etc., it would be front page news!

criminal prosecution would be fast tracked for an ordinary citizen, why do we allow the 'wanna be' royalty to get away with criminal action?

this is why 'we the people' have no trust at all in the government!

when the president spoke of earning back our trust to the 'esteemed members', pelosi enthusiastically led a standing ovation, as if this was her highest priority!

grrrrr!

it appears as though the government instituted by the people has become a government no longer capable of serving it's purpose.

along with every other elected official acting the same way spending taxpayer dollars without apparent consequence only adds to that belief.

sounds fake

ALL THESE POLITICIANS NEED A GOOD DOSE FREAKING HUMILTY! damnit

and why doesnt some angry guy shout this to them in a public speech and embarrass those bastards.

This article might have credibility if it compared Pelosi's expenditure's with past Republican speaker's of the House. It did not. It is crap.

I bet if Pelosi was a Republican , the comments on here would be a little different. Its sad how people are blinded because they checked a certain box on their Voter registration card

Where is the missing $8 billion dollars that disappeared when Bush and republicans were on the clock?

You site Judicial Watch as your objective source for your WND story. Judicial Watch's About Us page describes them as being a conservative, non-partisan... WTF? Non partisan to me means objective. Their web site is full of anti Obama/Democrat stories and I am hard pressed to find anything about the less than spotless record of Republicans.

As for Speaker Pelosi's using Air Force planes for her travel, George W. Bush ordered that the Speaker of the house must fly using the Air Force for security reasons after 9/11. She is third in line for the presidency.

As for the bar bill. Go ahead and stock the plane. If I had her job I would want a good martini at the end of the day as well. Since she is not the only one who uses these official planes it may not be much of a stretch to think the bar is stocked for military officers as well as other state officials who use the planes for travel. For someone who is living high and mighty at taxpayers expense, you would think she would shop at better places than Costco, Sam's and Walmart. Traveling overseas with a handful of members of Congress, their staff and security personnel will cost money. A lot of it by comparison to you and I.

I have to ask, were you so outraged when the Dept of the Interior was getting coke and hookers as kickback from the energy companies? That seems a little more questionable than the third most powerful person flying on Air Force jets.

You can't read one news article and assume that it's gold. Sources and facts must be checked. Who cares if congress likes to booze it up on the weekends? How many here are staying home on Saturday nights and contemplating the state of our nation? Let's get real people.

DAMN! Pelosi is quite the drinker...

This is chump change compared to what the Business Adminstration of my very conservative college that I attended spent with my tuition after hiking it up 300% during my four years of attending. I had one professor who had the guts to get the receipts and read to us what they were spending it on. He used the Freedom of Information and act, and was tenured. After reading the receipt to his class on day, he was mysteriously placed on administrative leave mid semester and we never heard from him again.... Go Red Raiders! LOL

Now I know why nothing ever gets done, everybody is three sheets to the wind. That sure explains those ridiculous speeches an lack of reality based ideas.

When I see reports like this I don't feel so bad about being disabled.

FOUL.!.

Are we all invited ?

Documents here: Neocongo

http://judicialwatch.org/weeklyupdate/2010/04-pelosi-party-planes

Your source is crap. Among World Net Daily's other "accomplishments" was an adherance to the Obama Birth Certificate lie.

Read on from:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/worldnetdailys-obama-fals_b_189724.ht...

WorldNetDaily has been on a wild anti-Barack Obama rampage for months now, but the only victim thus far is WND's credibility.

WND regularly spreads false and misleading claims about Democrats -- as John Kerry found out in 2004 -- and just as regularly refuses to correct those falsehoods unless threatened with a lawsuit, and sometimes not even then. For seven years WND fought a libel suit filed against it by Clark Jones, a Tennessee businessman targeted for his support of Al Gore, before finally admitting as the case was to go to trial its claims about Jones were false -- resulting in the expenditure of untold thousands in legal costs that could have been spared had WND retracted and apologized for its claims about Jones at the outset.

WND appears to be taking refuge in the fact that the bar for which it can be found guilty of libeling a public figure like Barack Obama is much higher than for the average American. The standard established by the Supreme Court is that a public figure cannot collect libel damages without proving that "actual malice" was involved in the publishing of inaccurate and defamatory material; the false information must have been published with knowledge that a statement is false or with "reckless disregard" of whether it is false or not.

Given the sheer number of falsehoods about Obama published by WND, one can easily make the argument that such a lengthy series of lies while demonstrating no genuine interest in telling the truth can be interpreted as "actual malice" because it demonstrates a deliberate pattern of "reckless disregard" -- and could, thus, be actionable under libel laws.

ConWebWatch has compiled a list of 23 falsehoods about Obama or topics related to him published in WND news articles and columns. Columnists are included because opinion pieces should be held to the same standard of factual accuracy as "news" stories. ConWebWatch attempted to find all instances in WND's article in which a falsehood was uncritically repeated, though information debunking it or putting it into proper context was available or could have been found had the writer chosen to seek it out, and for which no correction, clarification or retraction was subsequently published.

Look at the list -- admittedly incomplete -- and decide for yourself: Can a "news" organization that has published so many falsehoods about a single person have any credibility whatsoever? If WND can't be bothered to get its facts straight about a single man, why trust it to tell the truth about anything else?

WND has more than amply demonstrated that it cannot be trusted, especially in its coverage of Obama.

"Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey's Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer."

Hot damn! Maybe I SHOULD get into politics after all!

For speaker of the house she sure don't say a lot,she has a deer in the headlights look. During the st. of the union she kept lookin to the VP. for cues to clap. Nancy will bring the DEMOGOGS down w/ her style or lack of!!!!!!

Wow, get over it. I'd like to see Bush's or Cheney's in-flight tabs. At least we'd know how much coke runs in the free market, huh?

In any case, all of our elected officials should receive 'perks' for their work, after all, we want them to work for us, right? You take away these benefits and they'll end up working for whomever provides their perks, i.e., corporate bribery.

Lastly, I can assure you that many other politicians spend way more of our money on these types of perks, but have been lucky enough to hide the paper trails when the media comes around.