It Sucks To Be Dick

No, read the headline again.

My point is, Dick Cheney is not having a real good year. To begin with, he's the Vice-President. No politican worth his salt wants to be Vice-President. You wind up being thought of as an intruder in your only Constitutional duty, presiding over the Senate, and defending yourself any way you can.

Anyway, about a month ago, he had some problems with his breathing and his heart. That's serious business, folks; the man is on a pacemaker for a reason.

Then, his right-hand man gots indicted for being suspect #1 in the spy leak scandal. When you get indicted for things like that, you have to step down, and when it hits that close to you, people start to wonder if maybe you didn't have something to do with it, too. That kind of puts your own job in jeopardy.

And the big news today is that he shot his buddy while they were out quail hunting. Not only is this enormously embarassing to him (the guy is apparently doing okay; he got hit with a 28-gauge, which would be a pretty small blast, but still) He is being criticized for being a careless hunter. His staff is being criticized for sitting on the story. And, it appears he was hunting without a license. There's fines associated with that, Dick, and you can't expense that.

At least I'm not the only one having a rough time of it.