NO to post-January Secret Service for Uncle Fester

Instead of spending $4 million of taxpayer money to allegedly shield him for six months from the outrage of his spending $3 trillion of taxpayer money on Iraq, let Uncle Fester dig into his Halliburton ownings and buy private security. I’m sure Blackwater has a few extra employees floating around somewhere; let Uncle Fester pay Blackwater rates out of his private pocket, too.

“The critical factor is we are at war,” said William H. Pickle, former Secret Service special agent in charge of the vice presidential division from 1998 to 2001, who said he was speaking based on experience and was not privy to current threat information. “We have an enemy who has sworn to destroy this country, and they have sworn to kill both the president and the vice president. So why in the world would we not protect him? It’s common sense. The government and this country owe the president and vice president, they owe them that safety.”

Really? When did Congress declare war?

Of course, if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton get elected, and Democrats expand their majority in Congress, in the name of “bipartisanship,” we will get a bill to provide for undeserved protection.

Fortunately, due to changes in federal law, the Preznit himself just gets 10 years of protection after he leaves office.

Let them eat Iraqi sand.