One Boehner TSA won't be touching

[BurtWorm]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/no-security-pat-downs-for-boehner/

November 19, 2010, 2:23 pm
No Security Pat-Downs for Boehner
By JEFF ZELENY

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Mr. Boehner, who was wearing a casual yellow sweater and tan slacks, carried his own bags and smiled pleasantly at passengers who were leaving the security checkpoint inside the airport terminal. It was unclear whether any passengers waiting in the security line, including Representative Allen Boyd, a Florida Democrat who lost his re-election bid, saw Mr. Boehner.

At a Capitol Hill news conference after Election Day, as Mr. Boehner began laying out the changes he would make when he becomes House Speaker, he announced that he would continue to fly commercial airlines (usually Delta) back to Ohio. It was a not-so-subtle dig at the outgoing Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, who had been criticized by Republicans for flying military airplanes when she returned home to San Francisco.

“Over the last 20 years, I have flown back and forth to my district on a commercial aircraft,” Mr. Boehner said at the time, “and I am going to continue to do that.”

And so on Friday, he did. But not without the perquisites of office, including avoiding those security pat-downs that many travelers are bracing for as holiday travel season approaches.

[HughBeaumont]

1. Who the hell would want to get all of that spray-on tan all over their rubber gloves?

[lob1]

2. Of course he doesn't get patted down.

Rules are just for commoners.

[gateley]

3. We need to scream this from the rafters! He needs to be ASKED about it by a

reporter! How the fuck could he answer?

I can just see all the Republicans getting a pass an all the Dems having to spread 'em. Don't know how they could do that, but they'll think of a way.

[Erose999]

4. Handprints are bad for the lacquer. nt

[Kolesar]

5. Senator Kennedy was held from boarding an airplane during the bush regime...eom

[glowing]

6. Isn't the plane a security thing. Is he going to put his ass in danger? or other

passangers lives in danger for the would be terrorist who would want to take him out or harm him. Its a security detail that came about after 9/11 for the Speaker and Hastert first used it. I wouldn't want to be in a plane with that drunk dick for any amt of time.

[unblock]

7. getting special treatment while taking a dig at pelosi for getting special treatment.

sorry, orange-americans should be groped just the same as non-orange-americans.
to do otherwise would be profiling.

[veganlush]

8. hehehehe