It's a bit much to accuse Dick Cheney of appreciating irony, but even he's got to be feeling it today. He just asked President Obama, the man he's spent the last six months eviscerating in the press, to extend his Secret Service protection. According the the New York Daily News:
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.
More here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/...
I wonder who Cheney's afraid will come after him?
All the people he ordered tortured in Iraq, Afghanistan, and secret prisons across the globe?
The CIA agent he outed?
The Congresspeople he ordered to be kept in the dark by the CIA?
The families of the soldiers who were electrocuted in Iraq by shoddy KBR-built showers?
The families of the solders who've died in the Iraq war, which Cheney and his people lied America into?
The Republicans who are upset by the current wreck of the GOP?
The people who had their communications intercepted illegally by the NSA?
Or maybe he's just worried about ordinary voters, like the one he had arrested in Colorado?
http://www.denverpost.com/...
Whichever, if I were President Obama, I'd be hard pressed to give Dick Cheney tax-payer funded Secret Service protection after the last six months of nastygrams from the man.
But Obama's more forgiving than I am, clearly.
I'd have an entirely different branch of the government lavishing tax-payer funded care on Dick Cheney.