The Cheney With The Mostest

Dick Cheney attacked Senator John Edwards last night over Edwards attendance record in the Senate:

And Senator, frankly, you have a record in the Senate that's not very distinguished. You've missed 33 out of 36 meetings in the Judiciary Committee, almost 70 percent of the meetings of the Intelligence Committee.

You've missed a lot of key votes: on tax policy, on energy, on Medicare reform.

Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you "Senator Gone." You've got one of the worst attendance records in the United States Senate.

Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

Since Cheney was sworn in there have been 127 Tuesday during which the United States Senate was in session. Care to take a guess as to how many of those Tuesday sessions Cheney presided over?

Two.

Cheney served as the presiding officer for 1.57% of the Tuesdays since he has been in office.

But, I guess it all makes sense. If 1.57% qualifies in Cheney's book as "most" then it's no wonder he has trouble understanding that America has borne 88% of the casualties in Iraq while his administration has presided over the loss of nearly two million jobs.

George W. Bush likes to joke that he didn't put Cheney on the ticket for his hair. Clearly, Cheney's math skills weren't part of the deal either.