What do an astronaut, a politician and a deer have in common? No one really knows what any of them do.

An astronaut would be someone who flys in space but no one knows what they do when they are not working and when they are in space they are doing “secret” experiments; like masturbating in zero-g. Politicians don’t seem to do any work and when they do it seems that they piss someone off. Deer are scary animals. Moose too. And cows. This is because it is impossible that any animal could grow to that size just eating grass. I venture that deer eat fish. Whenever I am fishing I see deer and there are always paths to the water. But no one knows for sure what deer do. Very secretive.

Politicians are curious animals. Their job title does not give any indication about what they do. Bush says that his bad publicity will not stop him from doing his job. It seems to me that it has been Bush doing his job that has given him his bad publicity. I suggest that he just stops altogether.

Related to this is the leaking of a CIA operative’s name. The investigation is getting very close to pointing a finger. But that will get pardoned and the powers behind the powers will be able to stay in power behind the power. It looks like it may have been the Vice President’s office that leaked the name. While it may not be Cheney, it likely was one of his aides. (Heh, Dick has aides.) But it causes me to wonder how Scooter Libby knew the name. Even so, it is not a very good situation for anyone. I mean, I would like to watch these assholes get screwed. But only figuratively, not literally.

Is that what a politician does? I hope not. Maybe a politician takes advantage of his/her position. For example, with Bush not interested in foreign policy, and Cheney and Rumsfeld getting wet in their pants about the middle-east it appears that these two hi-jacked the foreign policy of the US to suit their own gratuitous needs. At the same time, these decisions were made secretly. Just like those damn deer eating MY fish. Everything is a secret.

Or is it the job of a politician to give friends a job. Here you can think of Hurricane Katrina. Not that Bush gave her the job of Hurricane, but he did give the FEMA job to a friend who butchered it. Or now with the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

My I suggest that the job of someone in government is to constantly say or do things to get more TV, radio or print time. The US Public Relations lady, Karen Hughes, was in the Middle-East to help make the US look like the kinder, friendlier Doberman-Pincher that tore your mother to pieces then pissed on the remains. But she made many supposed “slips of the tongue” like saying that Saddam gassed hundreds-of-thousands when, in fact, the number was closer to 5000. Granted that is still a large number, but it is WAY off. Stupid Monkey.

But, in all of this I see only one common thread: self-interest. It seems that all politicians are is a bunch of public-servants acting on their own private-interests. But don’t tell anyone. And don’t tell anyone I told you. It is Cheney’s job to do that.

If only the title “politician” were a little more clear as to what it means. Maybe “greeder” or “power-whore.”