"Everything -- or almost everything -- Cheney says is flat wrong"

Froomkin:

Inside the West Wing, Cheney's influence remains considerable. In fact, nothing better explains Bush's perplexing plan to send more troops to Iraq than Cheney's neoconservative conviction that showing the world that we have the "stomach for the fight" is the most important thing -- even if it isn't accomplishing the things we're supposed to be fighting for. Even if it's backfiring horribly.

But as his astonishing interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer laid bare last week, Cheney is increasingly out of touch with reality. He seems to think that by asserting things that are simply untrue, he can make others believe they are so.

Maybe that works within the White House. But for the rest of us, it's becoming a better bet to assume that everything -- or almost everything -- Cheney says is flat wrong.

In the warped world at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, everyone, including the President, must think that what Cheney says is true. That's truly scary. We're in trouble. Big trouble. Congress is going to have to rein these guys in. Soon.