Not just NO, but HELLLP NO
The author is in the business of demonstrating media hypocrisy and how they treat liberals and conservatives differently. He is simply playing off the idea that the media always tells us how wonderful the Clinton economy was — and the Clinton economy was a combination of Clinton’s tax rates and Newt’s spending cuts. In other words, he is painting them into a corner with this idea.
It’s in that vein that he presents this. It is never sold as a panacea or end all be all.
Newsbusters and MRC do great work. That’s who he works with.