Oh, For Goodness Sake

I’d almost rather bail out a bank

A bitter pill to swallow, having to shell out taxpayer money to protect the former Vice President, after all he did to make the nation less secure than ever in its history, getting richer and richer the whole time—while he writes his memoirs. Ah, well, better safe than sorry, I guess, is the thinking.

Obama Extends Cheney’s Secret Service Protection
July 10, 2009 03:00 PM ET

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

There appears no end in sight for when Dick Cheney, a rare former vice president with Secret Service protection, will lose his security detail. Whispers has learned that the political battler’s Secret Service protection has been extended, though there were no details on the length. We don’t know why President Obama OK’d the extension, which must be approved by the commander in chief because former veeps typically don’t get any Secret Service security after leaving office. But indications are that the threats against Cheney, who’s working on his biography at his homes in Virginia and Maryland, haven’t lessened since his term expired.