Pain in the butt

X-Vice President Cheney signed a book deal to “tell it all” about his bureaucrat career in Washington (and as CEO at Halliburton).

I hope he will devote a page or two to the (mis) shooting incident from his “point of view”.  And mostly about his sudden disappearance when the nation needed him most during 9/11.

Leadership by example?

If I were VP during that time, I would immediately chopper to the towers to defend my country. After all, I used to be Secretary of Defense, was I not?

Anyhow. The economy is sending out mixed signals: GE and Google CEO’s said the recovery was under way.

DoL meanwhile releases latest  unemployment figure which is at its highest level since 1983.

X Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said it’s more likely an X  and not V or U-shaped recovery.

X stands for nobody knows. It’s a mystery.

No wonder we are frozen like deers facing an oncoming head light. Some pain in the butt just won’t go away.

Dick Cheney’s guest at the ranch can well relate to (I am sure the wealthy patron is still experiencing it now and then).

And if he was deep into the Madoff’s scheme (I hope he were not) then, the pain would reach an unbearable level:

bullet pain and wallet pain!  Meanwhile, the shooter got away free to tell it all, at the price of $2 million a shot. Of course, being an open-minded person, I would read Dick Cheney’s memoir when it comes out. To see it from

his point of view, a politician survivor’s tale. Washington must be a place where careers are made and destroyed, just

as quickly as Wall Street. On a side note, in “Write this when I am gone”, President Ford was recorded as saying, ” I did order for those planes to pack as many Vietnamese as possible, yet they came back empty”

in referring to the insubordination of then Secretary of Defense during Operation Frequent Wings in 1975.

You can be a President, but sometime, your orders might not get carried out in the field. Might as well be a Vice President, writing a memoir and cashing out. He needs money for those heart surgeries, being a senior citizen like many baby boomers who served in Vietnam ( he got 5 draft deferments due to hardships) with no national health care.