Some Poodle, Ctd

A reader writes:

Ordinarily I might be inclined to agree that the soft power of the poodle (the toy variety, of course) could give one pause to wonder, "Who is walking whom?"  But that suggests that Bush is the one at the business end of the leash.  The only tether that really matters in Washington for the next 16 1/2 months is the one Dick Cheney feeds out just far enough to keep himself from accounting for actions done in the name of his own poodle.  In fact, this is more like the kind of child-leash that parents use to give their offspring the illusion of independent action.  The Blair-Poodle is merely an enhancement of the illusion.