Shrub attacks Shrubs!

[gridlore]

and the Queen is furious!

Sigh. Our President, asshole of the decade already, has no damaged trees planted by Queen Victoria. Exotic plants destroyed, the palace's flock of flamingos traumatized.. we even damaged the walls of Buckingham Palace!

Which, if I recall correctly, does in fact have a paved road leading to it.

To the Brits who read my journal. Please invade us and conduct a regime change. Take us back! We'll learn the real words to "God Save the Queen!" You have better beer, we have better food, it will be the perfect match! (Dibs on being granted the Duchy for California.)

You can even burn the White House again!

Comments

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

Wow.

The balls on the Secret Service...

...the bureacratic inertia feeding the mission requirements must be like a tsunami in power to just do that without really paying attention to the "cost".

Talk about the "power of big government"!

Moving the President around is expensive

[murbin.livejournal.com]

Go back and look at the cost of the Africa trips former President Clinton took.
Moving the President around is very, very expensive, and involves huge amounts of people and security.

As for this case, it seems the US visitors could and should have behaved better *and* somebody on the British side made a big mistake when he/she said, "Oh right, just land the Blackhawks here."

Re: Moving the President around is expensive

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

I meant the whole "mission" oriented mentality of the Secret Service to totally steamroller the Brits' sensibilities that way.