Constitutionally, Vice Presidents have one job. Don’t die. One VP said of the job, it was a “warm bucket of spit”. John Adams knew that there was no “job” in the “job”, although he accepted the position as a steppingstone to the presidency. However when presidents die the person sitting in second chair takes the job as President.
Eight Presidents have died in office. No Vice Presidents have died while serving as warm buckets of spit. Vice Presidents have one assigned job. Don’t die.
All Vice Presidents are assigned a protection detail of Secret Service agents. Once the warm bucket of spit is out of that office, the protection detail remains for 6 months. After 6 months, the detail is pulled. That makes sense – because frankly why do former VPs have a protection detail after they have left office? Why would anyone try to harm a former VP?
This week, it was news that Kamala Harris had her Secret Service agents pulled. The left, of course, went nuts. “How dare Donald Trump!” But the fact is, someone in the Biden White House had authorized an additional 2 months of protection for Harris. It wasn’t pulled; it expired. In any event, who would want to harm her? Seriously – she isn’t a target for anyone other than a booze ad. So, of course I thought a cartoon was needed.
Harris has protection now: Jim, Jack, Johnnie and “Ginny”. Yeah, she’s a boozer, and getting her ass handed to her by Trump (a non-drinker) is kind of fun.
