Charles “okhair” Perry.
This. When you serve a party that works every angle to keep “the wrong sort” of voters away from the polls, you don’t get cut any slack.
It is weird that the author just talks about the secret Service protecting the White House, I get that it is a nice building and all that , but he doesn’t seam to talk much about protecting the President, which I thought was one of the secret services main jobs. Perhaps the author is just suggesting that West should be in charge of protecting Americas federal buildings, and expand it to protecting all federal property, perhaps with armed responses to anyone trespassing on federal property.
I think he’s talking about the War on Christmas where the NAACP lined up 10,000 Santa Clauses against the wall and shot them dead, and took all the white children sitting on Santas’ laps off to be “vaccinated.” Even I thought Obama had gone too far on that one.
Oh. Forget it, Jake. It’s just Dingbattown.
He seems to be dividing the Secret Service’s mission into two parts: (1) protecting the White House from intrusion, and (2) protecting the president when he’s traveling, as they’re two different skill sets and strategies – but this is all implicit, as he doesn’t talk about (2) at all.
A blast from the past: Henry Kissinger’s secret plan to attack Cuba, in reaction to the Cuban intervention in the Angolan civil war. (Might’ve happened, too, if Carter hadn’t beat Ford in '76.)
Well, the White House isn’t just the POTUS’ residence and a nice building. It’s also where many other extremely important people work every day, and it’s also full of highly sensitive documents and maps and laptops full of national secrets and the like. All you see in movies and on TV is the Oval Office and environs but the West Wing is actually pretty huge - larger in footprint than the original building that you see on postcards. The WH is basically a museum and office complex with a residence on the upper floors.
I don’t think Republicans are at all comfortable with the idea of PROTECTING President Obama. Most of the time, it’s all they can do to not advocate killing him. So they talk about protecting the building he’s in, a much more comfortable topic for him. It’s sort of like having to admit that liberal Democrats and progressives are Americans, too … politically necessary in their public pronouncements, but not at all in line with their real thoughts.
Since we don’t have a dedicated thread for Evil Republican Idea of the Day, this will have to go here:
If we wanted to start a thread called Stupid Bipartisan Idea of the Century, this would go first: why the hell don’t we have normal relations with Cuba?
I was watching some of the hearings last night and was wondering why Darrell Issa and the other Republicans were worried about protecting Obama. It was confusing and I couldn’t wrap my head around their sudden concern. But you are right. They were talking about protecting the White House, where they hope a Republican president will live in two years. It makes sense now. Thanks.
Yeah It seams the author cannot bring themselves to mention Obama or suggest his security should be improved. He also said that using the US military would be 'simple and cost effective". Not words I’d often associate with the military, sure , world class in the “making things go boom and or dead” rankings, but cost effective ? Still it is a tacit admission that federal government can do things well, not an ideal example , but there is hope for them yet.
Those comments are but the first hints of the coming tidal wave of patriotic Republican support for the Commander in Chief in times of crisis. Here it comes!
Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) shows his eye-of-the-tiger drive:
Kansas is so fucking red, they didn’t think they had to bother. They may still win, because Kansas is that fucking red! You can always hope for a miracle, so long as you don’t expect it.
Yeah. It’s surprising that more Republicans who live in Virginia don’t run for office there.
I have to wonder why Dorothy ever tried to go home.