lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Mona Charen
Creators Syndicate

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Columns 87
Words 70301
Median Partisanship Index 40.74
Total Partisanship Index 56.89
Combined Partisanship Index 48.82
Positive Democratic Index 4.66
Negative Democratic Index 34.95
Positive Republican Index 34.95
Negative Republican Index 8.35
Positive Index 39.61
Negative Index 43.30
Neutral Index 17.09



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 24 Kerry(5), Kennedy(2), Democrats(2), Clinton(2), Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Democratic, Bill Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Howard Dean, Lawrence Summers, President Clinton, Clinton administration, Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, Gephardt, Lieberman
Negative Democratic 180 Democrats(42), Kerry(21), President Clinton(9), Democratic(9), Dean(7), Clinton(6), Edwards(6), Bill Clinton(6), John Kerry(6), Sharpton(6), Howard Dean(5), Clinton administration(5), Jesse Jackson(3), Ramsey Clark(3), Democratic Party(3), Jackson(3), Feingold(3), Democrat(3), John Edwards(2), Al Sharpton(2), The president(2), Democratic National Committee(2), Carl Levin(2), Teddy Kennedy, Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Forbes Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Les Aspin, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Dennis Kucinich, Clark, Lieberman, Hillary, Roosevelt, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark, Hillary Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Bob Graham, Gore, Gray Davis, Richard Riley, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Richard Gephardt, Levin, Democratic party
Neutral Democratic 27Democrats(9), Democratic(6), Clinton(3), President Clinton(2), Joe Lieberman, Lieberman, Bill Clinton, Feingold, the president, Kerry, Dean
Positive Republican 180 Bush(42), President Bush(28), Republicans(15), Bush administration(14), the president(12), Bennett(6), administration(6), president(5), George Bush(5), George W. Bush(4), White House(4), The president(4), Bill Bennett(4), Rove(4), Reagan(4), Rumsfeld(3), Ronald Reagan(2), Republican(2), Karl Rove(2), Secretary of State Colin Powell, Powell, Wolfowitz, President Reagan, GOP, Republican National Committee, Nancy Reagan, President George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the President, Cheney, Bushes, Rudolph Giuliani
Negative Republican 43 administration(5), Bush(5), Republicans(5), Bush administration(3), Republican(3), McCain(3), White House(3), Norquist(2), the president, Grover Norquist, George H.W. Bush, William Bennett, Bennett, Norman Mineta, George W. Bush, Mineta, President Bush, Bob Packwood, Ronald Reagan, Chuck Hagel, Hagel, Reagan administration
Neutral Republican 61President Bush(12), Bush(10), White House(7), Bush administration(6), Republicans(6), the president(4), Schwarzenegger(2), Tom Ridge, George Bush, Cabinet, President George Bush, president of the United States, Republican, McCain, Bush White House, Dick Cheney, The president, administration, Rumsfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, McConnell



List of Columns

Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
End of year reflections
27 December 2003
833 43 4D+: Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, Gephardt, Lieberman
8D-: Howard Dean, Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democratic party, Dean
6R+: George W. Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, George Bush, Bush, George Bush, Bush
5D=
Saddam's hole -- and the Democrats'
19 December 2003
870 82 7D-: Democrats, Howard Dean, Democratic, Kerry, Dean, Kerry, Democrats
3R+: President Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration
1R-: Reagan administration
Sad day for freedom
12 December 2003
833 33 2D-: Feingold, Democrats
1R+: Republicans
1R-: McCain
2R=
Thanksgiving
28 November 2003
786 100 1R+: George W. Bush
I hate popular culture
25 November 2003
819 75 3D-: Clinton, Al Sharpton, Democratic Party
1R=
Jessica Lynch, Col. West: What's wrong with this picture?
16 November 2003
814 0 1R=
Jessica Lynch: Modern Myth
14 November 2003
866 33 1D-: Clinton administration
1D=, 1R=
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban is a small victory
7 November 2003
774 100 1D-: President Clinton
1R+: President Bush
The price of being wrong
31 October 2003
873 71 1D+: Clinton administration
11D-: Democrats, John Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Dean, Sharpton, Clinton administration, Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
8R+: President Bush, the president, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
1R-: Bush
2D=, 1R=
The most important book of the year
24 October 2003
847 0
The failure brigade
17 October 2003
775 0
Into the sewer we go -- led by Bono
14 October 2003
715 0
The scandal du jour
3 October 2003
844 44 2D+: Clinton, President Clinton
4D-: Democratic, Democrats, Democrat, Democrats
15R+: Karl Rove, White House, the president, Karl Rove, Rove, President Bush, Rove, Bush, Rove, White House, White House, Republicans, Rove, Bush administration, Bush
5R-: Republicans, White House, Republican, Chuck Hagel, Hagel
1R=
Free speech confusion
30 September 2003
733 0 1D-: Feingold
1R-: McCain
Who can you trust?
26 September 2003
750 0
The whiners
23 September 2003
783 0
Saddam, and 9/11
19 September 2003
972 56 1D-: Democrats
9R+: administration, The president, the president, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, President Bush
4D=, 4R=
At the trough
16 September 2003
828 50 1D+: Lawrence Summers
2D-: Democrats, Democrats
2R+: President Bush, The president
1R=
DC vouchers
12 September 2003
761 89 7D-: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Richard Riley, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Richard Gephardt
1R+: Republicans
1D=
We have to win
9 September 2003
874 92 8D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, President Clinton
4R+: President Bush, President Bush, the President, the president
1R=
Mr. Both Way
5 September 2003
880 54 4D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean
14D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
3R+: Bush, the president, President Bush
3R=
Sue the Jews
2 September 2003
779 0
Fat and folly
29 August 2003
710 0
Liberation isn't easy
22 August 2003
859 33 1D-: President Clinton
1R+: Reagan
1R-: Ronald Reagan
Western culture is superior
19 August 2003
826 0
Those fantastic socialist medical systems
15 August 2003
765 0
Schwarzenegger swaggers into the race
12 August 2003
775 0 2D-: Bill Clinton, Gray Davis
1R+: Arnold Schwarzenegger
3R-: Republican, Bob Packwood, Republicans
3R=
Masculinity makes a comeback
8 August 2003
717 100 3R+: President George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld
Deeply held beliefs
5 August 2003
848 31 3D+: Dianne Feinstein, Democrats, Democrats
6D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
3R+: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans
1R-: Republicans
2D=, 1R=
Closer to home
1 August 2003
831 100 1R+: Ronald Reagan
A little perspective
29 July 2003
854 100 3D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Gore
3R+: president, President Bush, President Bush
Killing the goose that laid the golden egg
25 July 2003
839 25 2D-: Clinton administration, Democrats
2R+: Republicans, Republicans
2R-: Republicans, Republicans
1D=, 1R=
Did we lose the war in Iraq?
22 July 2003
755 100 1R+: President Bush
The scandal that wasn't
18 July 2003
883 93 6D-: Democrats, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Bob Graham, Democrats, Democrats
7R+: Nancy Reagan, the president, the president, Bush, Rumsfeld, administration, President Bush
1R=
Don't know much about history
15 July 2003
790 0
No to Liberia
11 July 2003
852 86 5D-: Jesse Jackson, Jackson, President Clinton, Jackson, Jackson
1R+: Bush administration
1R=
We, the people of the Supreme Court of the United States
8 July 2003
830 0
Conventional wisdom strikes out
4 July 2003
839 79 9D-: Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic National Committee, Feingold, Democrats
7R+: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, GOP, Republican National Committee, Republicans
1R-: McCain
1D=, 1R=
Straight talk about immigration
27 June 2003
863 0
WMDs and the Iraq war
24 June 2003
791 100 5R+: administration, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush
Just another day in the life of freedom
20 June 2003
741 100 1R-: George W. Bush
How strange
17 June 2003
719 60 4D-: Hillary, Bill Clinton, Democrat, Roosevelt
1R-: Republican
Summer reading
13 June 2003
767 0
The Nazis, again
10 June 2003
731 0
Caution: Reality ahead
6 June 2003
770 0 1D+: Bill Clinton
1R+: President Bush
1D=, 1R=
What makes sense?
3 June 2003
794 0 3D=, 7R=
Bush the humanitarian
30 May 2003
809 79 1D+: Kennedy
1D-: Clinton
11R+: Bush, President Bush, Bush administration, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, President Bush, Bush administration
1D=
Memo to Supreme Court: Be brave
27 May 2003
757 0
L'affaire Blair and the Times
23 May 2003
802 100 1R+: Bush administration
The suffering Palestinians
20 May 2003
784 0
United Nations redux?
16 May 2003
706 100 2D-: John Kerry, Carl Levin
About those COPS
13 May 2003
762 78 1D+: Kerry
8D-: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, President Clinton, The president, The president, Clinton administration, John Kerry, Kerry
The liberators
9 May 2003
789 0
Bennett's vice
6 May 2003
769 67 10R+: Bennett, Bill Bennett, Bill Bennett, Bennett, Bill Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bill Bennett
2R-: William Bennett, Bennett
Middle East roadmap: curves ahead
2 May 2003
803 50 1R+: President Bush
1R=
Domestic good news
29 April 2003
802 80 2D-: Democrats, President Clinton
2R+: Republicans, Republicans
1D=
Gratitude
25 April 2003
789 0
Searching for the lead lining
22 April 2003
862 10 1D-: Clinton
3R+: Bush, Republican, Bush administration
3R-: White House, administration, administration
3R=
Oliver Stone gets the ax
18 April 2003
758 0
Among some Arabs, bitterness reigns
15 April 2003
791 0
Recap
11 April 2003
820 100 3D-: Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean
6R+: president, president, the president, Wolfowitz, Bush administration, president
No shades of gray
8 April 2003
822 0
Our brave women
4 April 2003
809 100 2D-: President Clinton, Les Aspin
Peter Arnett: whose man in Baghdad?
1 April 2003
770 100 1R+: President Bush
The other menace
28 March 2003
812 33 3D-: Clinton administration, Clinton, Jimmy Carter
1R+: Bushes
2R-: administration, George H.W. Bush
Patience
25 March 2003
775 0
Pax Americana
21 March 2003
824 100 1D-: Democrats
12R+: Bush, Ronald Reagan, the president, president, the president, The president, Bush, George Bush, Reagan, President Bush, President Bush, George Bush
War and psychology
11 March 2003
811 50 1R+: George W. Bush
1R=
A timely primer
7 March 2003
817 100 1R+: President Bush
How to handle captured Al Qaeda terrorists
4 March 2003
771 100 1R+: The president
Saddam interview and Rather's cult of personality
28 February 2003
836 50 2D-: Ramsey Clark, Ramsey Clark
2R+: White House, Bush
4R=
Time for nation-building
25 February 2003
836 0
The left sides with terror - again
21 February 2003
818 100 2D-: Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson
5R+: President Reagan, Reagan, President Bush, Reagan, George Bush
Saudi tendrils
18 February 2003
875 20 1D+: Clinton
3R+: Bush administration, the president, Bush administration
6R-: the president, White House, Grover Norquist, Norquist, Norquist, Bush administration
10R=
Living with terror
14 February 2003
821 0 1R=
Funny, you don't look
11 February 2003
885 89 21D-: Democratic, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Wesley Clark, Clark, John Kerry, John Forbes Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean, President Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Democrats, Sharpton, Democrats, Al Sharpton, Sharpton, Democratic, Sharpton, Lieberman, Sharpton, Sharpton
4R+: Bush, President Bush, Republican, the president
3D=
Not the liberals' kind of war
7 February 2003
844 43 3D+: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Democratic
5D-: Carl Levin, Levin, Kerry, Democratic, Kerry
5R+: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Powell, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration
1R-: President Bush
One nation
4 February 2003
767 0
Malpractice by lawyers
31 January 2003
814 0
Is Iraq a distraction?
28 January 2003
814 42 1D+: Kerry
6D-: Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, President Clinton, Democrats
2R+: Bush, President Bush
2R-: Bush administration, Bush administration
1R=
Snapshot of American liberalism
24 January 2003
823 71 1D+: Kennedy
3D-: Teddy Kennedy, Ramsey Clark, Kennedy
3R+: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld
The fog of affirmative action
21 January 2003
819 0
Government-sponsored obesity
17 January 2003
771 100 1D-: Democrats
A cold war time bomb
14 January 2003
842 0
A discerning look at Bush, from an insider
13 January 2003
911 41 15R+: Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
4R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
8R=
Homeland security still neglected
7 January 2003
830 60 1D-: Democrat
4R-: administration, administration, Norman Mineta, Mineta
Just what we need
3 January 2003
823 89 8D-: John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
1D=