More on Pelosi

Yesterday, we posted the Republican take on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the use of military aircraft. Of course the Minority Party is going to spin it against the Speaker, to do otherwise would be nearly impossible for them, as it was for the Democrats when former Speaker Dennis Hastert began the practice following the events of September 11, 2001.

As with everything political there are two sides (sometimes more).

Jim Kuhnhenn at Capitol Hill Blue points out Pelosi would be happy to fly commercial.

Pelosi said she would be happy to fly on commercial airliners but said the House sergeant-at-arms office urged her to continue Hastert’s practice of using Air Force transport. She said she was informed on her first trip home that her plane would not make it across the country.

“I said well, that’s fine, I’m going commercial,” she told Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren. “I’m not asking to go on that plane. If you need to take me there for security purposes, you’re going to have to get a plane that goes across the country, because I’m going home to my family.”

So what do Republicans have to say about that?

Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida, the No. 3 Republican leader, called Pelosi’s desire for a large transport plane “an extravagance of power that the taxpayers won’t swallow.”

“It’s important we see what the specific request was,” Putnam said.

But how about the White House?

“This is a silly story and I think it’s been unfair to the speaker,” White House spokesman Tony Snow said.

Did you feel that? The earth stopping spinning and reverse course. Miracles do happen.