The resignation this morning of White House chief of staff Andrew Card does not strike me as being one of those events that galvanizes the nation. It fails to pass what I call the Hey Honey Test, as administered by the average John Q. Citizen, watching the TV news in his kitchen.
To wit: "Hey, honey, drop that sponge and get over here -- didja know that Andrew Card is leaving his job?!"
See what I mean?
On the other hand, there are things that can be said about this ostensibly inside-the-Beltway development. But I will say them in print tomorrow morning.
About Me
- Dick Polman
- Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters, and lauded by the ABC News political website as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation," Dick Polman is a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. This online column is cited by The Washington Post as one of the top five mainstream political blogs in the country, and is touted by former "Hardball" TV producer Howard Mortman as "the immediately must-read political blog." Dick has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and the BBC. He covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential campaigns. In his 22 years at the Inquirer, he has also been a foreign correspondent based in London; a baseball writer covering the Philadelphia Phillies; a general-assignment writer in the feature section; and a longtime Sunday magazine contributor. In the early '80s, he wrote three metro columns a week for the Hartford Courant. A graduate of George Washington University, today Dick is on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "writer in residence."