“You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas ... on the taxpayer’s dime (unless you are a member of the Government Elite, in which case you can go with an entire entourage of feds and gladhanders on the taxpayer’s dime and the liberal media will look the other way and wish they were part of it).”
I’m in Las Vegas as I type and I heard something very interesting from a Metro police officer who is very well connected yesterday. I asked him about this upcoming trip and he told me that the last time President Obama came out to Las Vegas, to go visit the solar farm out by Boulder City, the Clark County Sheriff told Secret Service he could not afford the overtime for staffing the enormous effort to supplement the security detail, traffic enforcement and shutting down the Strip. He asked that the President fly in Nellis Air Force Base and take a chopper out to Boulder City instead of snarling traffic on the Strip and shutting down McCarran Intl. Airport for hours. He was told that it would appear too “military” if the President did that. Sadly he didn’t have the cojones to actually not staff it...