lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Robert L. Bartley
Wall Street Journal

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Columns 46
Words 56595
Median Partisanship Index 38.1
Total Partisanship Index 35.9
Combined Partisanship Index 37.0
Positive Democratic Index 5.5
Negative Democratic Index 27.7
Positive Republican Index 30.2
Negative Republican Index 16.6
Positive Index 35.7
Negative Index 44.4
Neutral Index 19.9



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 33 President Kennedy(4), Kennedy(3), Democrats(3), Democrat(2), McCall(2), Democratic(2), FDR, Truman, John Kennedy, administration, JFK, President Johnson, Joseph Biden, President Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nancy Pelosi, Democratic National Committee, Zell Miller, Sarbanes
Negative Democratic 167 Democrats(30), Clinton(27), Democratic(12), President Clinton(10), Bill Clinton(9), Democratic Party(6), Kennedy(5), Al Gore(3), Hillary Clinton(3), the Clintons(3), Rubin(3), Church(3), McCall(3), Democrat(3), FDR(2), President Kennedy(2), Gore(2), Ted Kennedy(2), Webster Hubbell, Hubbell, Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton Administration, Administration, Robert Torricelli, Eliot Spitzer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Kennedy administration, Teddy Kennedy, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, John F. Kennedy, Averell Harriman, administration, Harriman, Tom Daschle, Jean Carnahan, Bob Torricelli, Frank Lautenberg, Carnahan, Terry McAuliffe, Democratic National Committee, McAuliffe, Carl McCall, Al Sharpton, Bob Rubin, Andrew Cuomo, Cuomo, Clinton White House, White House, Senate, Democratic White House, President Johnson, George McGovern, McGovern, JFK, Sarbanes, Former President Jimmy Carter
Neutral Democratic 41
Positive Republican 182 Bush(39), President Bush(17), Reagan(12), Ronald Reagan(9), Bush administration(8), George W. Bush(6), Republican(6), administration(5), Henry Kissinger(4), Rumsfeld(4), Republicans(4), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld(3), President Reagan(3), Kissinger(3), Wolfowitz(3), Dwight Eisenhower(2), Jack Kemp(2), Donald Rumsfeld(2), George Bush(2), GOP(2), Colin Powell(2), Paul Wolfowitz(2), Cheney(2), Richard Nixon(2), Richard Perle(2), Larry Lindsey, Rudolph Giuliani, George Pataki, Michael Bloomberg, President Eisenhower, President George Bush, Bob Dole, Vice President Cheney, Christopher Bond, Ashcroft, Budget Director Mitch Daniels, Mike Taylor, Jim Leach, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Baker, Elizabeth Dole, Ted Olson, Bill Simon, Phil Gramm, Barry Goldwater, Goldwater, Bob Livingston, Kenneth Starr, President Nixon, Nixon, Don Nickles, Mitch McConnell, Oxley, Starr, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Perle, Theodore Olson
Negative Republican 100 Republicans(10), Bush(9), Nixon(7), Pataki(7), Bush administration(6), GOP(6), administration(6), President Bush(5), White House(4), Republican(4), President Nixon(3), Case(3), O'Neill(2), Cheney, Bush Justice Department, Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, Ari Fleischer, Gerald Ford, Ford administration, Eisenhower, Colin Powell, President Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Bloomberg, Reagan, Newt Gingrich, John Ashcroft, George Pataki, George Bush, Goldwater, Republican Party, Dick Darman, Nick Brady, Vice President Dick Cheney, Larry Lindsey, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, President Ford, Tom Ridge, Paul O'Neill, Oxley
Neutral Republican 79



List of Columns

Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
A Few Final Words as Editor
30 December 2002
1227 50 3R+: Jack Kemp, Theodore Olson, Henry Kissinger
1R-: Nixon
A Stone Box, Christ and History
23 December 2002
1099 0
Intellectual Roots of a New Foreign Policy
16 December 2002
1158 67 2D-: Democratic Party, Former President Jimmy Carter
8R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, Wolfowitz, Perle, Richard Perle, Bush
5R=
Bush: Foreign Policy to Take Seriously
9 December 2002
1168 88 22R+: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bush administration, administration, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, George Bush, Bush, White House, President Bush, Bush, administration, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush
1R-: Bush administration
1R=
Risk Aversion in the Corner Office
2 December 2002
1102 29 1D+: Sarbanes
2D-: Sarbanes, Clinton
2R+: Oxley, Bush administration
1R-: Oxley
1D=
Permanent, Marginal, Immediate
25 November 2002
1195 29 2D+: Kennedy, Zell Miller
1D-: Democrats
6R+: President Bush, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Don Nickles, Mitch McConnell
1R-: Paul O'Neill
4R=
Thirty Years of Progress--Mostly
20 November 2002
3543 23 1D+: Democratic National Committee
13D-: George McGovern, McGovern, Democratic, Church, Church, President Clinton, Clinton, President Clinton, President Clinton, Clinton, JFK, Kennedy, Democrats
12R+: President Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, President Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Nixon, Bush administration
13R-: Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Case, President Ford, Nixon, Case, Nixon, Nixon, President Nixon, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon, Bush administration
2D=, 6R=
On the Left: Hysteria and Name-Calling
18 November 2002
1137 26 2D+: Nancy Pelosi, Democrats
7D-: Democrats, President Johnson, Democrats, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Democrat, Democrats
10R+: Barry Goldwater, Goldwater, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush, Bush, Bush, GOP, Republicans, Ronald Reagan
7R-: Republicans, President Bush, Bush, GOP, Republicans, GOP, Bush
2D=, 3R=
Bush Wins a Sputtering Economy
11 November 2002
1139 17 4D-: Democratic, Democrats, Bill Clinton, President Clinton
6R+: GOP, President Bush, Republicans, Bill Simon, Phil Gramm, President Bush
6R-: Bush, administration, O'Neill, White House, Larry Lindsey, O'Neill
2D=, 5R=
Declining Democrats,
4 November 2002
1253 26 2D+: Democrats, Democratic
11D-: Democrats, Democrat, Democratic White House, Democratic Party, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrat, Democratic
12R+: Reagan, Republican, Jim Leach, Republican, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Republican, Ronald Reagan, Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, President Reagan, Elizabeth Dole
9R-: Republicans, Goldwater, GOP, Republicans, Republican Party, Bush administration, administration, Dick Darman, Nick Brady
5D=, 8R=
New York: A Rotten Choice
28 October 2002
1294 6 6D+: Al Gore, McCall, Democrat, Clinton, McCall, Democratic
20D-: Clinton, FDR, Democratic, Carl McCall, Al Sharpton, McCall, Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Clinton, McCall, Hillary Clinton, President Clinton, Cuomo, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton White House, White House, Democrats, McCall, Clinton
11R-: George Pataki, Pataki, Republican, Pataki, Pataki, George Bush, Bush, Pataki, Pataki, Republicans, Pataki
8D=, 7R=
Bill's Party Does
21 October 2002
1351 56 3D+: Democrat, President Clinton, Jimmy Carter
24D-: Democrats, Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Jean Carnahan, Democratic, Democrats, Al Gore, Gore, Bob Torricelli, Democrats, Frank Lautenberg, Carnahan, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Terry McAuliffe, Clinton, Democratic National Committee, McAuliffe
10R+: Bob Dole, Republicans, Republican, Republican, Christopher Bond, Ashcroft, George Bush, Bush, Republican, Mike Taylor
4R-: GOP, Republican, John Ashcroft, President Bush
5D=, 2R=
About Freedom in the Free World
14 October 2002
1083 100 1R+: President George Bush
Who Elected the U.N.?
7 October 2002
1120 33 1R+: Bush
2R=
The Democrats Refight Vietnam
30 September 2002
1244 47 5D+: President Kennedy, President Kennedy, President Kennedy, Kennedy, President Johnson
19D-: Democrats, Al Gore, Teddy Kennedy, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democratic, Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Averell Harriman, administration, Harriman, President Kennedy, Church, Democrats, Democratic Party, Democratic, Democratic Party
3R+: President Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, President Bush
2R-: Case, President Nixon
3D=
What Future for Wall Street?
23 September 2002
1109 20 3R+: Rudolph Giuliani, George Pataki, Michael Bloomberg
2R-: Bloomberg, Pataki
A Monetary Bubble?
16 September 2002
1168 50 1R+: Larry Lindsey
1R=
What We Learned
9 September 2002
1092 100 6R+: Bush, President Bush, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger, Kissinger, Bush
The Hatfill Case: Essential Background
19 August 2002
1148 50 1R+: Bush administration
1R=
Washington Anoints
12 August 2002
1135 56 1D+: Joseph Biden
6R+: President Bush, administration, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush administration
2R=
What's a 'Bubble' Anyway?
5 August 2002
1162 0 4D+: administration, President Kennedy, Kennedy, JFK
6D-: Clinton, the Clintons, Clinton, Democrats, Kennedy administration, President Kennedy
2R-: Republicans, administration
The Options-Accounting Sideshow
29 July 2002
1122 0
Drug Prices: A Much-Needed Primer
22 July 2002
1159 67 4D-: Ted Kennedy, Democratic, Ted Kennedy, Kennedy
1D=, 1R=
On the American Way of War
15 July 2002
1177 83 5R-: Eisenhower, President Bush, Colin Powell, President Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles
1R=
Andersen: A Pyrrhic Victory
24 June 2002
1112 0
At Dawn in a New Diplomatic Era
17 June 2002
1145 23 2D+: Truman, John Kennedy
7R+: Bush, President Bush, Henry Kissinger, Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan, President Bush
2R-: Gerald Ford, Ford administration
2R=
A Silver Bullet for Human Nature?
10 June 2002
1064 0
FBI Reform: Connect Anthrax Dots
3 June 2002
1093 100 3R-: Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, White House, Ari Fleischer
Meanderings on Money
20 May 2002
1087 0
World Law or Institutionalized Hypocrisy?
13 May 2002
1151 100 2D-: President Clinton, President Clinton
7R+: Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger, Kenneth Starr, Starr
Businessmen in the Dock
6 May 2002
1085 43 4D-: Robert Torricelli, Eliot Spitzer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt
1R-: Bush Justice Department
2R=
Faltering Recovery
29 April 2002
1045 100 2R+: Bush, Bush
Engaging the Irritating Europeans
22 April 2002
1159 43 4R+: President Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush
1R-: Bush administration
2R=
Will Bill Clinton Find Peace?
8 April 2002
1306 86 24D-: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, the Clintons, Bill Clinton, the Clintons, Clinton, Webster Hubbell, Clinton, Hubbell, Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton, Clinton Administration, Clinton, President Clinton, Administration, President Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton
1R+: Bob Livingston
1R-: President Nixon
1D=, 1R=
Bush: Beyond the Bad Patch?
1 April 2002
1316 21 3D-: Senate, Democrats, Democratic
4R+: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
13R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, White House, administration, Vice President Dick Cheney, administration, Bush, Bush, Tom Ridge, Cheney, Bush administration
2D=, 6R=
Christians, Jews and Wotan
25 March 2002
1153 100 1D-: Bill Clinton
Post-Clinton Standards
18 March 2002
1163 100 3D-: Clinton, President Clinton, Clinton
Monetary Machismo in Mexico
11 March 2002
1176 0
Marginal Rates:
4 March 2002
1317 17 2D-: Democrats, Democrats
5R+: Reagan, Reagan, Jack Kemp, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan
11R-: Republicans, Republican, GOP, Republicans, administration, White House, Republicans, Republican, Republicans, GOP, Newt Gingrich
1D=, 4R=
The Anti-Keynes:
25 February 2002
1296 44 5D-: Bob Rubin, Rubin, Clinton, Rubin, Rubin
4R+: Bush, Reagan, Republicans, Reagan
1R-: Reagan
6D=, 2R=
Enron: First, Apply the Law
11 February 2002
1265 0
Does Spending Stimulate? Do Deficits?
4 February 2002
1229 100 1R+: Ronald Reagan
A Year's Measure of the Man
28 January 2002
1367 68 3D-: Al Gore, Gore, Democrats
15R+: Bush, George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush, Bush, Jim Baker, Ted Olson, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, Bush, Bush
1R-: Bush
6R=
I'm OK, You're OK! Enron's OK?
21 January 2002
1133 0
Next for Bush: A New Political Era?
14 January 2002
1359 56 4D+: Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrats, FDR
7D-: Democrats, FDR, Democratic Party, Democrats, Tom Daschle, Hillary Clinton, Kennedy
16R+: Bush, President Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney, Budget Director Mitch Daniels, President Bush, Rumsfeld, Rudy Giuliani, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
1R-: President Bush
2D=, 2R=
Conquering Guilt, Forging a New Era?
7 January 2002
1189 50 3R+: George W. Bush, President Bush, President Bush
3R=