Now that he has no power, Dick Cheney is doing interviews.  He is no longer responsible for what is happening in any way that could change the way things are, so now he is giving interviews.  Well, sort of.  Cheney is really being Cheney and he is the world's biggest wimp.   He's a loud-mouthed spectator who's never really been in the game, but somehow he has managed to own a team.

Cheney was hiding from the American people almost his entire time in office.  He can't deal with a challenge.  His answers to a challege can be summed up in his performance on the Senate Floor.  "Go Fuc^ yourself!"  He gave the American people the finger his entire term, and now he is at it again on CNN.

Where does one start to reveal his real lack of character?  He's no patriot.  If he was, Cheney might have gone to Vietnam instead of thinking that was for others to do.  Again, not in the game.  Cheney can't admit his daughter is a lesbian, so he can avoid the complete betrayal of her by being in a political party whose Conservative Christian base abhors homosexuals.  He's too frightened to speak up for his own daughter.  Watch the VP debate in 2004 with John Edwards.  Edwards could tell the truth, and all the weak willed Cheney could mutter was "Thank you".  Seriously, Cheney could not speak for himself, personally.  He lacks that character.

When Cheney traveled to Portland, Oregon, his meeting with energy lindustrial leaders was in secrecy as well.  Now Oregon is facing the implementaion of a Liquid Natural Gas pipleline carving its way through the state for the interests of private energy companies.  Could Cheney face the public then to justify this action deplored by so many people?  No.  For his response, watch for finger.

Now Cheney comes out of his undisclosed location to criticize Obama and to begin the whitewash his legacy so desperately needs.  Too soon, Dick.  All of a sudden, we are reminded how bad things were when all we had to look to for leadership was you and Dubya to make a decent decision.  You failed.  You couldn't even come out of your rat hole to talk to anyone about the issues the nation faced.  It seems this is because you are a coward at heart.

While Vice President, Dick Cheney refused to watch anything but FOX on his TVs because he really lacks the capacity to defend his positions and requires constant affirmation by willfully blind followers who do not ask questions.  Obviously, the CNN interview was more of the same, FOX light, if you will. 

Cheney appears to be nothing more then the loud mouthed spectator now, and what he has to say is not news worthy.  We need to see the game, the actual players on the court who are in the contest.  Showing us this one heckler in the stands is a waste of time.  He's like one of those fans with his team's shirt on who gets depressed when they lose, as though he was actually on the team, actually in the game.  Dick Cheney is no athlete and, arguably, he was never in the game.  He simply ran around behind the scene's pulling strings because he lacked the courage to really face the American people and answer any tough question to the people he was elected to serve.  It was all self-service.  So when Cheney comes on TV to tell us how he feels about anything I have one response.  Watch for finger!

While I am questioning whether we need to do away with green on this day, it is Spring and all, I think in the spirit of evolution it is time to have a more evolved myth for March 17th.  What if, instead of honoring St. Patick for expelling all the snakes from Ireland, we instead honor St. Barack Hussein Obama for expelling all the snakes from Wall Street?

 We could also give BHO credit for bringing the Gospel of Truth to Wall Street and perhaps he could be remembered restoring good old Number Seven, or maybe it's Number Eight, of the Top Ten Things God told us NOT to do in the Old Testament, or in a token offering of respect for diversity, the Talmud's Number Eight, <b>Thou Shalt not Steal</b>. 

Would it not be sensational to have a rapturous legend of how BHO walked down Wall Street carrying a large staff in his hand and declaring, [Echo sound effects should be cued here] "Thou Shalt Not Steal!!!"  [End of sound effects]  The result of this onerous annoucement would be that the evil traders jump from their windows, or come to the Light of Obama and never, ever, even propose that just because the nation is floundering economically and everything has gone to sh^t, they should still receive bonuses of biblical proportions taken from funds intended to prevent the company from collpasing like the Tower of Babel [Reference Old Testament here, or Talmud, as if your preference].  [Optional image of Grinch's heart growing might be played at this juncture.]

In the spirit of evolution and religion coming together in a hybrid sort of a way, which IS all the rage now, hybrids that is, I think we could start something here and I am open to ideas in the comments.  Let's try to disagree without being disagreeable, if it comes to that.  :-{)> 

Want your bonus?  Take the US to court! 

Someone named Songsender commented at Huffington Post that we should withhold the bonuses to AIG executives and force them to sue the US for the money.  This is a typical corporate tactic, and a rather unscrupulous one at that, but we now know with whom we are dealing at AIG.  Since we own AIG, or could own it at the blink of an eye, we should withhold the bonuses.  If the "executives", or as I like to call them employees, find this distasteful, they can file suit.  I am very interested in knowing who these thieves are and requiring them to file suit should get these cockroaches out into the light where they can get swatted with a rolled up newspaper like the dogs that they are, unless, of course, they are cockroaches.  I suspect there are both dogs and cockroaches among them, and I mean no offense to either dogs or cockroaches.  There are probably a few snakes as well.  At any rate, if AIG executives refuse to disclose to the government who among them is getting millions of dollars, our answer can be, "No one." 

Can we do this?  "Yes We Can!" 

Can there be any greater hypocrisy then this.  The executives, and somehow they are ALL executives, are not giving up their bonuses because that is what the contracts say.  It's a legal issue and these guys are all in the private sector so keep out!  It's none of your business. 

Unless you are the CEO, you are labor, IMHO.  You work for someone else.  Okay, you do not turn widgets on a lathe, but you simply are a cog in the process of bringing money into your organization.  If one considers these people labor, then their stance is exactly the same as the autoworkers!  Union workers had contracts that they have renogotiated.  Serious sacrifices have been made by these people to preserve the companies for whom they work.  These UAW folks are not executives, but many of them are highly trained individuals.  Some are not, but does that make their sacrifices somehow less significant?  On a personal level, on the degree to which their sacrifices change their life, I would argue these folks at the UAW have given up more then these "executives" would if they lost their bonuses. 

Exectutives remind me of the  mysterious Masons.  There's no official organization, but they are all invisibly connected in the comaraderie of plundering the companies for which they work.  They encourage and support their friends and acquaintances in this cadre to do the same.  Even the Board members who theoretically represent the share holders do not rein them in.  You know, that all powerful private sector that is supposed to naturally challenge excessive pay to ensure profitability.  Oh, I guess they challenge the pay of wage earners, not salaried folks.  It's the organized workers who are the threat.  It's the old Jedi mind trick, "Pay no attention to the executives, these are not the parasites your looking for. Move on."

It is time to name names of the employees who demand these bonuses.  The US owns AIG and has every right to know who these people are and how much they were paid.  These people are entitled to the same pressure the UAW workers faced, and, frankly, if they do not decline or return the bonuses, then let us be sure the nation knows, "pay no attention to the union laborers, these are not the parasites you are looking for. Move on."  Union workers made sacrifices.  We are all making sacrifices and these executives need to sacrifices as well.