Budget Cuts Cause Cops To Cut W.'s Extra Security

The Dallas Morning News:

The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush.

In addition to the usual Secret Service protection, Dallas until last week had stationed one on-duty tactical officer per eight-hour shift on the street outside the president's home. The estimated cost of that service was $300,000 for about a year, according to police officials who asked that they not be named.

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Comments

[eden4barack08]

He should've never been getting anything "extra" to begin with. It's bad enough we pay for the SS and his retirement after he broke the country.

[dillydawg]

Well said.

[BluebirdofUnhappiness]

Solitary in a maximum security prison should solve the problem. I know it's expensive, but since he won't need the Secret Service, I'm thinking quite the net savings.

[iSeeDumbPeople]

RIGHT?! Love your screen name.

[trixie]

Doesn't his family own tens of thousands of acres in Paraguay? Hurry up and move.

[MidwestMo]

He needed Dallas police in addition to Secret Service? How many shoes get thrown at Georgie-boy?

[KDog76A]

bwaa, been waiting for a Bush story since January to break that out?

[PWM]

Rambo Bush can protect himself - afterall, he made millions on oil.

[madtom]

No he didn't, unless you count his career on the North Slope selling coke.

He drilled forty wells, funded by people who wanted t get in with his dad, then the VP, and all he ever hit was DUST.

[SoccerNana]

The Secret Service can do the job without Dallas PD. Dubya will be fine.

[swanie]

Let's see what happens in nine years when he loses the SS protection . . . . .
.

[Toonadude]

Looks like the shrub will need to snip the shrink wrap on one of those pallets of C-notes.

[clutchkill]

Blackwater has the other pallet so I'm pretty sure he'll be ok.

[robbor]

I'm sure Dallas has a concealed handgun law. Get him a permit and give him a .38, end of story.

[serialcoma]

Yeah.... maybe he'll s h o o t himself...­.

[LooktotheLeft]

one can only hope

[justoverit333]

Oh that's a shame. I'll let my friends know who are out of
a job and trying to stay in their homes.

[instagladiator]

I'm sure that when your friends hear this news, that they will think that their problems are trivial and scurry to pass-the-hat to raise the funds for this (un) worthy cause?

[sixyfivepercentwater]

His security cannot be cut. He needs to be kept as safe as humanly possible, so that when someone with balls finally gets into power he is in good shape to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[CR46]

He has SS protection­...But I do hope that if he ever does a speech in Europe the world Court arrests him on arrival.

[oscartucker]

CR46--GWB is already in prison; where can he go in the world? He most definitely will not give a speech in Europe for fear of arrest. Even the Canadians want to get him, but he's been able to get in and out of there. One day someone may catch up with him.

[Periwinkle]

Finally. Shrub is reaping what he sowed. We can't afford anything either thanks to his fine handling of the American economy.

[wadda]

It's not the city's responsibility to foot the bill to provide a Federal function.

[ProfessorDuh]

Cut it all. That's the savings the American people can definitely afford.

[mi]

great, so there's a better chance a meteor could
land on his head.

[lightningbolt]

The very wealthy war criminal can pay for his own security. They should cut his secret service security too. After having done more damage to the U.S. than any other entity in history, he does not deserve a single cent from taxpayers.

[justoverit333]

Maybe Cheney could pitch in.

[serialcoma]

Put Cheney at the front gate with a shotgun...­. you never know, we might get lucky.