Obama Authorizes Extended Secret Service Guard for Cheney
July 21st, 2009Touching.
Via: New York Daily News:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Secret Service protection has been extended for at least another six months, beginning Tuesday.
Normally, ex-veeps only get six months of protection at taxpayer expense. But Cheney asked for an extension, and President Obama – whom Cheney has excoriated in several interviews since leaving office – recently signed off.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano signed the order extending Cheney’s security detail, her spokeswoman Sara Kuban confirmed Monday.
If the Obama administration hadn’t gone along with Cheney’s request, he would have been forced to hire his own security agents – or go without.
Cheney’s friends have said he has become more concerned about his privacy and personal safety in recent years.
Forced to hire his own security contingent?
“…or go without?”
That statement is just plain insulting. That it passes as de facto among the greater populace, a spurt into the memesphere by some deskbound lackey under an editor’s sharp heel completely at odds with good sense, is perhaps the ultimate American tragedy.
One nation under spell, indivisible and with justice for Paulson.
As if it would be a financial burden on Tricky Dick the Second to retain private security on par with the SS. I prefer typing it that way to retain maximum memetic impact, by the way.
In fact, seeing how he’s an ex-veep, I expect any private detail he was actually paying for (heaven forbid) would very likely be composed of at least one or two “retired” SS types, alongside their other former military and intelligence brethren staffing the expendable elite of the modern mercenary industry.
No sense of entitlement to see here folks, just move along.