I've always said, that of all the people I *didn't* want to be on that day, Andrew Card is right at the top of the list. I can't imagine the "oh...fuck..." moments he must have had, first learning what had happened, then realizing that he was going to have to tell the village idiot about it.
Man, I wish that when emergencies happened at my job, I could sit around and read for five minutes before doing anything...

I would just be sick to my stomach waiting for him to come up with his solution to deal with the problem. "How much deeper into the shit can we go?" One can see why Karl Rove has so much power -- they're afraid of what would happen if Bush actually made the decisions.