Discussion: Politico: Tom Price Took Private Jet On Five Separate Official Trips Last Week

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Just more proof that we need to build up the Air Force. Or buy him a Piper Cub.

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If Price isnā€™t the worst of them, he certainly ties with whomever else we might consider for first place.

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Another example of how the ā€œborrow and spendā€ Republicans operate.

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How does Price flying private jets work with MAGA? Does he have a fear of TSA? Whatā€™s he got against our great American airlines?

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I thought they were against ā€œentitlements?ā€ Hypocrisy!!

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Itā€™s good to be royalty.

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Then we have the EPA secretary shifting environmental law enforcement agents to his private security detail.
Remember when things like this would be a big story and the administration in power would be chastised?
Iā€™m reminded of Chief of staff Sununu caught flack for using a government plane to go stamp collecting. He later resigned.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/at-epa-guarding-the-chief-pulls-agents-from-pursuing-environmental-crimes/2017/09/19/7b7b8b6c-9ce0-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_epa-945a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.1da5fab0c2c6

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ā€˜The move isnā€™t illegal, but breaks with the precedent of his predecessors who took commercial flights for official business travel.ā€™ Uh OKā€¦and when Pelosi was the Speaker and had to use government jets to get home to California for SECURITY you just sat there didnā€™t you Tommy? You never whined and sniveled and accusedā€¦you didnā€™t vote for the SEQUESTER to tie the hands of the Democrats because you ā€˜believedā€™ in AUSTERITYā€¦I guess thatā€™s all for thee and not for me.

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why is PRUITT sneaking around the country? using private planes so no-one will know where he went and with who?

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Just love that olā€™ GOP fiscal responsibility.

Mnuchin and his wife Louise-Antoinette ā€“ now Pruitt. Next weekā€¦?

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Having to save taxpayer money is for suckers. And Democrats. But my Republicanā€™t friends would say Iā€™m being redundantā€¦

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Exactly who is paying for these trips needs to be disclosed and news outlets need to be demanding this disclosure. HHS would not respond to Polticoā€™s question re payment.

According to Politico these trips are on private charters booked thru a third party as opposed to government jets ala Mrs. Mnunchin. At least one charter operator denied knowing these trips were ā€œofficial businessā€ and the event organizers denied paying for travel.

Itā€™s very possible these are being paid for by corporations with business interests before HHS.

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No, Clinton was the Wall Street shill and pay-to-play candidate and she lost to the populist hero in the biggest Electoral College blow out since forever. There has to be another explanation.

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Okay, you made me laugh.

For which I am grateful.

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"While not illegal, the practice is considered suspicious and is characterized as an irresponsible use of taxpayer fundsā€¦"

But hey, her EMAILS!

Las night Maddow was talking about how the funds from purchases of Trump paraphernalia ā€¦ like the MAGA hatsā€¦.are being used to pay for the Trump family attorneys. Another reason donnie loves those rallies.

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The terrible optics and full press coverage here, show what complete and total amateurs these grifters really are. ā€œLet them eat cake,ā€ Price was heard to say.

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Itā€™s completely unfair, because a person canā€™t help having the face he was born with, but this one always seems so paradigmatically fascist to meā€“that pink, bland,dead-eyed face, so devoid of any of the characteristics of empathy or interest. His stunning moral indifference and his arrogance are etched into his face.

He strikes you as being the sort of man who could easily, without hesitation, push a button that would destroy the lives of millions of human beings, then shrug and say dispassionately, ā€˜I was only doing what needed to be done,ā€™ then walk away and promptly forget those millions of lives without so much as a flicker of conscience.

Itā€™s not just his looks that deliver this message, of course. Itā€™s every act the man has taken since he was placed in public life by the dark money crowd. They buy men like Secretary Price by the job lot: the absence of conscience and empathy is a feature, not a bug.

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How is that investigation into Priceā€™s rampant insider trading on healthcare stocks going? Havenā€™t heard anything about that since his confirmation.

Amazing how no one in the legislature ever wants to lift up the sheets on that steaming pile.

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Grifters gotta grift.

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