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2019-01-17 Home Front: Politix
Trump shuts down postpones Pelosi's trip after many boarded bus to airport
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Posted by Jan 2019-01-17 15:39|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1  Trump Troll level +10
Posted by newc 2019-01-17 15:48||   2019-01-17 15:48|| Front Page Top

#2 The comments were classics.

Some think that Pelosi "as the House Speaker has a right to her own air force because 'co-equal branch' " (Congress, by the way is the co-equal and consists of House and Senate... whatta maroon, try again...).

And others say that "it's from the military budget so it is already allocated" (So, it's Other People's Money™ and Pelosi deserves a slice just because she wants it? But that's another issue...).
Posted by magpie 2019-01-17 16:29||   2019-01-17 16:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I do support the military flying congress/government critters in and out of areas that are hostile to Americans. It makes it nearly impossible to hijack planes and hold them hostage and has defense against MANPADS and the like.

Now... that being said. To many of the congress critters and government pukes have been using and expecting military transport for regular things. Just like they expect 1st class and the taxpayer to foot the bill. Seeing Lady (spit) Pelosi losing face when the Commander in Chief of the military says she can't fly on the planes is pure awesome.

If she wants to pull spiteful and divisive stunts to score points and try to shame Trump, she has a lot to learn. Trump has no shame and will happily rub your face in mud just because he can. We can't spare this man. He fights.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-01-17 16:37||   2019-01-17 16:37|| Front Page Top

#4 More Please! Finally, a President who fights back harder.... The toxic males across the country applaud this well deserved FU to the Socialist Insurrectionists in Congress, and the use of their own language in the letter is classic...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-01-17 16:48||   2019-01-17 16:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Should have waited and canceled the return flight.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-01-17 18:02||   2019-01-17 18:02|| Front Page Top

#6  The letter
Posted by 3dc 2019-01-17 18:04||   2019-01-17 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Seeing Lady (spit) Pelosi losing face

Have you looked at her lately? It's not possible.
Posted by gorb 2019-01-17 18:25||   2019-01-17 18:25|| Front Page Top

#8 
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro

I don't get the logic of Trump denying Pelosi her trip. Why not just point out that her trip will require massive logistical support -- and that she'll get it -- and that she's obviously lying about SOTU?


How else are you going to get all those wonderful pics of pi$$ed off liberals with steam jetting from their ears as they grudgingly get off the bus in defeat?
Posted by gorb 2019-01-17 18:33||   2019-01-17 18:33|| Front Page Top

#9 I LOVE IT
Smite the botox-ridden bitch with the limitations of her own power. She can fly Commercial on their own budgets
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-17 19:03||   2019-01-17 19:03|| Front Page Top

#10  I LOVE IT

Me, too. My heart is like an alligator!
Posted by SteveS 2019-01-17 19:14||   2019-01-17 19:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Ben Shapiro can suck it, and does. She's overstepped her self-authorized privileges. She can take public transportation. Show disrespect, get it back, "Co-equal of the President"
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-17 19:17||   2019-01-17 19:17|| Front Page Top

#12 From the article, more amusement:

According to sources, the president pulled the plug on Pelosi's aircraft as she was about to leave for her overseas trip. Her congressional delegation's military aircraft was slated to depart at 3 p.m. ET.

A senior White House official also told Fox News that all congressional delegation travel by military aircraft is now postponed.

An official said that “as soon as the president found out about the trip today, he took immediate action.” A source told Fox News that when moving to cancel Thursday's flight, the White House reasoned that the trip would keep Pelosi out of the country beyond next Tuesday night—when the next government pay period would occur.

"If she had gone on this trip she would have guaranteed that 800,000 federal workers would not receive their second paycheck because she would not have been here to negotiate any kind of deal," a senior White House official said Thursday.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-17 21:39||   2019-01-17 21:39|| Front Page Top

#13 I am waiting for a pundit chorus of: "How could he! How petty and partisan! He will not be able to work with a Pelosi-led Democratic Party Majority House!!!!"...

...As if Trump could have "worked" with them anyway. The Supreme Court Farce signaled that it was going to be Total War from now until 2020.
Posted by magpie 2019-01-17 22:10||   2019-01-17 22:10|| Front Page Top

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