ON A BICYCLE AND A PRAYER

Deadline for Iraq? Rummy Boy says we should "just back off" and "relax." The Bullshitter-in-Chief holds his own press conference, then invites a few friendly journalists into the back room -- excuse me -- the Oval Office, and says, "If we leave, they will follow us here." (Subscription required.)

What struck one of the invited -- Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Journal's editorial page -- was how different the bullshitter's press conference was from his private conversation. In public the topic was Iraq. In the Oval Office it was America. But if you read Henninger's rightly named Wonder Land column, it all sounds like the same bullshit. As Lenny Bruce once said, "Yada, yada. Yada, yada, yada, warden!"

Meanwhile, ever on the lookout to probe deeply, Henninger noticed:

The burden of war ... has not sapped Mr. Bush physically. ... The hair's gone gray, but there is little sign of fatigue in his face or demeanor. I asked how he stays normal: "Prayer and exercise."

Or as Jon Stewart has said, "Worry no more!"

Postscript: A friend writes: "I am not for 'cutting and running.' How about just walking out backwards?"