Personally, if I were her I'd rather fly commercial on a B717 or a B777 with a perfect safety record (no fatalities) than in a Gulfstream or a B757 - military or not. I remember in '95 when Gingirich got in shedload of trouble for requesting that he get to accompany the press and Clinton's staff on AF1 to a funeral (Nixon's if I remember correctly) in '95 - it rather pales in comparison to this. Not that I'm saying I would rather have Gingirich as a speaker (I'm a centrist so I dislike both Pelosi and Gingirich).
Don't you know, the terrorists are everywhere targeting everyone.... Perhaps Nancy fears for her safety from domestic threats...
So it is political on both sides, but all you do it point to what the majority party is doing. ROTFLMAO...
Blair would only have done that 'coz all the dough goes to keeping the royals in corgie chow. Still, i kinda like the idea-id sooner see vast public sums spent on a family, a tradition known factually to be completely useless, than risk wondering whether pollies are actually deserving those kind of those kinds of priveleges. Because THAT would be a total waste of time.