text: Fair enough.
  
  I spent a few minutes last night (probably more than I should have!) reading about our vice presidents.  It's interesting that Cheney appears on many (if not most) lists of the worst VPs; but he also appears on some lists of the best VPs.  I guess it depends on the perspective of the person thinking about it.
  My thinking about Cheney is driven by the fact that he was truly consequential -- that his thinking, his worldview, was what President Bush acted on, to his own detriment and ours.
  Of course, history continues to unfold, and I don't exclude the possibility that our present VP, an apologist for and enabler of (and would-be successor to) the most corrupt, incompetent and unstable president is history, will turn out to be worse than Cheney was.