LaRocco

Okay, LaRocco, it’s far too early to be this desperate (Hat Tip: Kevin Richert.)

“Jim Risch throws around money like an oil executive on a binge. He spends three times more for airplane flights than U.S. Senate candidate Larry LaRocco.

“On Monday, fate put Risch and LaRocco on the same flight to Washington, D.C. LaRocco made the trip in coach with budget-minded travelers. But first, he had to bump past Risch who was luxuriating like a Roman emperor in the first-class cabin.”

Never before has airplane-seat envy made its way into a U.S. Senate. Of course, one has to wonder how LaRocco knows how much Risch spent on his ticket. LaRocco alleges $3,350, compared to LaRocco’s $990 for his working class experience sitting in coach. It could very well be that Risch got a lower price through his connection to this guy:

While LaRocco claims thriftieness for his nearly $1000 coach ticket. Using Priceline, it appears that LaRocco got hosed. Priceline quoted me $440 for a last minute weekend flight to Washington, DC. or more than 55% less than Larry LaRocco’s great price. We don’t know what Jim Risch paid for his ticket (if he didn’t use Priceline, there are Frequent flier discounts out there, rewards miles, etc) but we know the absurd price LaRocco paid to fly coach. So, perhaps we can say it shows the general philosophy that he would bring to the Senate: overpaying for services. LaRocco was part of unreconstructed Democratic Majority of the early 1990s that made our Welfare State out of control with more than 70% of money going to bureaucrats rather than the people on the program. It was only by getting people like Larry LaRocco out of the way that any progress has been made in fixing that out of control entitlement, that like Larry LaRocco’s plane ticket cost far more than it should have.

If we want to talk about airline tickets though, perhaps instead of demogoguing about who rides in what seat, perhaps it would be more appropriate to talk about what has led to higher prices for all travellers. The high price of gas has driven up the cost of travel for all Americans. However, the Democrats have chosen to use the name of Demogoguery that Larry LaRocco used. Our nation hasn’t built a refinery in 32 years, we are sitting on billions of barrels of oil that’s untapped. Since Democrats took over Congress, we’ve had the counterintuitive proposal that by increasing taxes on oil producers,  we will somehow reduce prices to consumers. What has been the result of Democratic governance the past two years?

(Hat Tip: Mazurland Blog.)

Do we want more of this? This is the result of the governance of Pelosi and Reid is clear and a vote for Larry LaRocco is a vote for more of the same despite LaRocco’s phony populist rhetoric.