SHAMELESS NATION: What’s It Take to Get Fired in Washington These Days?
by Stephen Green
“The buck stops here” read the famous sign on President Harry Truman’s Oval Office “Resolute” desk almost from the moment he was sworn in after FDR’s death. In today’s Washington, the buck flies around like a Super Ball in a bouncy house — which is just one of two reasons why disgraced Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle still has her job.
If Cheatle possessed the strength of character demanded by the position she holds, she’d have fallen on her virtual sword before the final gunshot had stopped ringing in people’s ears.
Arguably worse, Presidentish Joe Biden hasn’t fired Cheatle and shows no indication that he ever would. She’s another DEI-supporting and -approved progressive woman with a Washington sinecure. That makes her, unlike the people her organization is assigned to protect, virtually bulletproof.
What message does that send, not just to other would-be assassins but to bad guys around the world?
“Go on and hit me with your best shot.”
We’ve reached the point — and it took us less than four years to get here — where the Secret Service is a laughingstock.
At the end of the day, what really matters is that the Secret Service tried hard and had fun
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) July 16, 2024
The Service is supposed to deter with just its dark-suited, sunglassed, and manly presence. The Primary’s immediate security detail — the people who provide cover when the bullets start flying — must be physically large and strong enough to cover the Primary completely with their bodies and manhandle him or her to a safe place without delay.