The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on January 10, 2013, 07:53:24 PM
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Good for me, but not for thee.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-signs-law-giving-himself-bush-lifetime-secret-184305122--politics.html;_ylt=AmgqRg6niFFPqZfV1LRO1Fms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNsNnBkMHBvBG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBGUARwa2cDZTE2MjNlYjUtY2NlOC0zNGJiLThjZjQtNjM3MGU1NzgzMjcyBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN0b3Bfc3RvcnkEdmVyA2IzY2MwYzQzLTViNTgtMTFlMi05YzVjLTk2ODRhZmU2NjYwYg--;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3
Former presidents have to give up rides on Air Force One. But now they don't have to give up being shadowed by the armed-and-earpieced bodyguards of the Secret Service.
President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into a law a measure giving him, George W. Bush and future former presidents and their spouses lifetime Secret Service protection, the White House announced.
The legislation, crafted by Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, rolls back a mid-1990s law that imposed a 10-year limit on Secret Service protection for former presidents. Bush would have been the first former commander in chief affected.
At the time, lawmakers who supported the measure said it would save the government millions of dollars. They also argued that former presidents could hire private security firms (as Richard Nixon did after he decided to forgo Secret Service protection in 1985).
The bill had sailed through Congress with bipartisan support—it cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote in early December, and then it zipped through the Senate unopposed. The law also provides protection for former presidents’ kids until age 16. But “protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage.”
The Secret Service started protecting presidents in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley. In 1965, Congress passed a law authorizing the agency, which is now a part of the Department of Homeland Security, to protect former presidents for life.
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Wait a minute I thought Congress, in a cost saving measure, did away with SS for former Presidents after slick Willie?!?! They control the purse strings after all.
The guy is a hypocrite, that much we know, but this is just more of the same-utter disregard for everything that has made this country great.
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The law said that presidents could have S.S. protection for only 8 years after they left office. But Clinton signed it and said that he was the last president that could get full coverage for life. Bush did not change it, so he would going to have no coverage after B.O. 2nd term, but now he has it for life. I would have thought Bush would have changed that law, but not shocked the current one changed it.
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I would have thought Bush would have changed that law, but not shocked the current one changed it.
Why is that? BHO would die trying to figure out the safety on a Glock if left to defend himself. OTOH Bush seems capable enough to defend himself or provide for his own protection (BHO is living the high life he could never afford if he wasn't POTUS including his security).
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Bush figured the only ones who hated him that much were anti gun queers , so he didn't need to worry.
On the other hand, Obama knows who hates him too .