Franken, Al. The truth (with jokes). New York: Dutton, 2005. ISBN 0-525-94906-2.

Summary: Stinging, sarcastic accounts of the misdeeds of the Bush administration, recent Republican Congresses, and conservative media pundits.

And then there was Scott Erwin, twenty-one, a former intern for Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay, who didn't need a job because he was still in college. Erwin marveled to the University of Richmond newletter that “in one week I went from chatting on the quad, eating in the Heilman Dining Center and attending ODK [Omicron Delta Kappa] meetings to being briefed in the Pentagon, flying in a C-130 military plan from Kuwait City to Baghdad and living in one of Saddam's many palaces.”

Erwin soon landed a gig as the top Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official managing the finances of Iraq's civilian security forces -- fire units, customs, border patrols, and police. What a great job! Almost as much fun as his previous favorite job, which he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch was “my time as an ice cream truck driver.”

Erwin was one of the six youngsters given control of Iraq's $13 billion budget. ... CPA Inspector General Stuart Bowen concluded that no less than $8.8 billion went unaccounted for ... .