One of the things I always check in Newsweek is their Conventional Wisdom section. It's kind of the political equivalent of "What's Hot & What's Not" so you can't put a whole lot of stock in it, but I usually find it interesting. Recently, however, I've noticed a tendency for the good folks at Newsweek to be awfully generous to Bush. So this week I take a look, fully expecting a decisive down arrow. After all, Richard Clarke has been all over television ripping the Bush administration apart. This has caused much sound & fury from the Bush gang, but the best they can seem to come up with seems to be the equivalent of, "Yeah, well...his momma's ugly and she dresses him funny." So, down arrow, right? No. Sideways. How anyone can look at what's happened in the past week and decide that overall it's a wash is beyond me. So this week I give Newsweek a down arrow.
