Comparative Reality

Another point that I wanted to make in my last post (hey, I got distracted by the beauty of my prose), was that ol' Newt is churning out the revisionist history of the Bush administration:

Carter, like many outsiders who became president (including the current White House resident), greatly underestimated the the institutional strengths of the Congress...the Texas legislature only meets every other year. This gave Governor Bush a considerable misunderstanding of the depth of institutional trouble he would face in Washington.

So the Bush presidency has been a failure because Congress was too tough on him?

There are so many levels of outright mendacious lying in there. Newt Gingrich is complaining that Congress was too mean to a president. Yes, revel in that for a minute. And that president is George W. Bush, who had six years of a Republican Congress that gave him everything he wanted, and more, and he returned the favor by reducing their power as a branch of government. And now he just ignores Congress entirely.

I imagine that Newt gave an evil little chuckle when he wrote those words. Nice to see that Newsweek will print any old lies, as long as the page says "Opinion."