In recent days, he said he did not want to criticize the financial bureaucrats who had built the budget before he became their boss, then went on to say they should have become aware of the looming fiscal crisis in a state that depends on the increasingly shaky returns from Wall Street.
But, ten years after the original, I'm glad to see this non-shaky return to form, even if the final chase and showdown do drag several minutes too long.
When supposedly safe savings vehicles, such as bank deposits, look shaky and offer scant returns, gold has greater appeal as an alternative store of wealth.
After a couple of weeks in which the government's authority in the lower house was looking shaky, self-discipline has returned to the Labour benches.
Among those trudging north were several men who had just been freed from the Taliban prison in Kandahar, returning home shaky and hungry after four years.
That support has boosted a shaky rotation eagerly awaiting the return of Pettitte, who has the most postseason victories in history.
His first putt was a little shaky, but the five-foot return showed balls of steel, his 18th par giving him a fighting chance of securing the title.
The US should ask the shaky government of Israel, in return for years of loyal American support, to stay its hand.
After a three-day period of reflection and mourning for Mr Campos, President Rousseff looked shaky and flustered on her return to the campaign trail.
Watson returned to his shaky ways on Saturday.
