The Air Force jet former Speaker Dennis Hastert used can’t fly all the way to California without stopping to refuel, so Speaker Pelosi wants a bigger plane. The Air Force said no. The Speaker shot back, “I’m not saying that I am being discriminated against because I am a woman. I’m just saying as the first woman speaker, I have no intention of having less respect for the office I hold than all of the other speakers that have come before me.”

Of course, precisely what Speaker Pelosi is inferring is that since she is a woman she is getting less respect than former Speaker Hastert. Sexism, rearing its ugly head, is denying her a bigger jet.

This is a tempest in a teapot but it has a humorous side. Only in America can we enjoy the spectacle of our Congressmen (and women) defining their “respect” – by the size of their jets.

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