"Cheney's Checked Out"

From Tom Paine.com:

Like Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, Cheney was saying that “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”  Truth has no claim on the president or vice president, Cheney seems to suggest, so long as they are the masters.