Newsweek CW Praises Congress for Preachy Grandstanding

December 8th, 2008 11:26 AM

In only the latest example of how out of touch Newsweek magazine truly is with reality, the magazine Web site's Conventional Wisdom feature for December 5 praised an institution with lower poll numbers than outgoing President George W. Bush.

That's right, Newsweek gave a back-slap to the Democratic Congress for doing what it does best: preachy grandstanding, particularly in service of left-wing economic lunacy such as fresh mandates for "green" technology from Detroit:

In giving the Big Three the hairy eyeball, Capitol Hill seems to have suddenly rediscovered what oversight means