Sarah Lyall has one of those delightful gotcha! stories in the NYT this morning: 'Elections Looming, Tories Put Posh Foot in Mouth'. It seems that Sir Nicholas Winterton, a Conservative MP, doesn't think he should have to ride coach class with the peasants. How impossibly elitist! As Ms Lyall, in the Gray Lady's best non-judgmental prose, puts it: the Tories must shed 'their old chilly image as a stuffy bastion of the elite, the mean-spirited, the entitled and the clueless.'
But half a mo', as the lower classes in England used to say--what American Congressman would ever dream of traveling coach? Or by train, for that matter? Or by public transport, if you rank high enough? Take that gang in the celebratory photo below: It wasn't so long ago that Nancy Pelosi was demanding a larger military jet to speed her travels between Washington and California--one that wouldn't have to stop to refuel midway. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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