CALL ME SNAKE

Tuesday’s Boston Globe had a nice “perspective” piece by Peter Canellos about Bush’s lackey Andrew Card, the former chief of staff. Card was more like a “lowly manservant” than an “imperious” ruler, Canellos wrote, largely due to the inordinate amount of power wielded by VP Dick Cheney. Here’s the part I wish I’d written, as it says very well something I’ve thought about many times before: “Cheney seems happy to swim along with an approval rating lower than Bush. He isn’t running for office. He’s running the country.”