lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Robert L. Bartley
WSJ OpinionJournal

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Columns 37
Words 43051
Median Partisanship Index 37.29
Total Partisanship Index 45.08
Combined Partisanship Index 41.18
Positive Democratic Index 7.54
Negative Democratic Index 31.23
Positive Republican Index 29.69
Negative Republican Index 8.31
Positive Index 37.23
Negative Index 39.54
Neutral Index 23.23



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 49 FDR(4), Democratic(4), Morgenthau(3), Bill Clinton(3), Franklin D. Roosevelt(3), Clinton(3), Hillary(2), Acheson(2), Dean(2), Democrats(2), Kerry(2), Dean Acheson, Larry Summers, Carter administration, Carter, Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt, Daschle, Dodd, president, President William Jefferson Clinton, Lieberman, Jimmy Carter, Edwards, Dick Morris, Gore, Democratic Party, Henry Morgenthau, Senate Democrats, Howard Dean
Negative Democratic 203 Democrats(44), Democratic(41), Kennedy(11), Clinton(7), Dean(7), Roosevelt(6), Howard Dean(5), Edward Kennedy(4), FDR(4), the president(4), Bill Clinton(3), Democratic Party(3), Clinton administration(3), John F. Kennedy(3), Gore(3), Johnson(2), Daschle(2), Senate Democrats(2), John Kerry(2), Kerry(2), Gephardt(2), Joe Lieberman(2), Gray Davis(2), DNC(2), JFK(2), Richard Durbin, Strom Thurmond, Jerrold Nadler, Tom Daschle, Minority Whip Harry Reid, Sarbanes, Ted Kennedy, Rostenkowski, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Kennedy administration, President Kennedy, Tony Lake, Lake, Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, Lieberman, Edwards, Graham, Moseley Braun, Sharpton, Kucinich, Teddy Kennedy, Dick Gephardt, Mary Landrieu, Former President Clinton, Davis, President Clinton, Robert Torricelli, Paul Wellstone, Al Gore, Patty Murray, Democrat, President Roosevelt, Church, Barbra Streisand
Neutral Democratic 61Democrats(6), Dean(5), Democratic(4), Al Gore(3), Kennedy(3), Clinton administration(3), Clinton(3), president(2), the president(2), John F. Kennedy(2), Gore(2), Senate Democrats, Koch, President Kennedy, administration, McNamara, JFK, Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Stanley Greenberg, Robert Byrd, Dick Gephardt, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Lieberman, McGovern, President Johnson, former President Jimmy Carter, Gray Davis, Democratic Leadership Council, Howard Dean, Gray, Democratic Party, Dean Acheson, FDR, Morgenthau, Zell Miller, Jerrold Nadler
Positive Republican 193 Bush(28), President Bush(25), Republicans(17), the president(15), president(8), Republican(7), George Bush(7), administration(6), GOP(6), Ronald Reagan(5), Reagan(4), The president(4), Colin Powell(3), Wolfowitz(3), Cheney(3), White House(3), Bush administration(3), Secretary of State Colin Powell(2), Karl Rove(2), Paul Wolfowitz(2), Dick Cheney(2), Powell(2), Newt Gingrich(2), Richard Perle(2), Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Alexander Haig, Ted Olson, J. Dennis Hastert, Mankiw, George W. Bush, Don Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, vice president, President George W. Bush, Condi Rice, Rush Limbaugh, Henry Kissinger, Limbaugh, Rod Paige, Paige, Rick Santorum, Senate Republicans, Santorum, Giuliani, George Pataki, Pataki, Condoleezza Rice, Grover Norquist, Ford administration, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, House Republicans, John Ashcroft, Richard Nixon, Katherine Harris, Eisenhower, John McCain
Negative Republican 54 Republicans(7), administration(4), Pataki(3), White House(3), Bloomberg(3), President Bush(3), Bush administration(3), Olympia Snowe(2), Republican(2), Bush(2), Lott, Colin Powell, Reagan administration, Jeane Kirkpatrick, President Reagan, the president, Michael Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg, Senate Republicans, Oxley, Bush Administration, Trent Lott, George H.W. Bush, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Republican Party, Dean, Jim Jeffords, Treasury Secretary James Baker, Treasury Secretary John Snow, Republican president, Case
Neutral Republican 90Bush administration(9), Bush(7), the president(7), Powell(4), Republicans(4), administration(4), Republican(4), Reagan administration(3), Wolfowitz(3), the President(2), Donald Rumsfeld(2), Bloomberg(2), Karl Rove(2), George Bush(2), President Nixon(2), President Bush(2), GOP(2), Reagan, Karen Hughes, Ari Fleischer, President George H.W. Bush, Lott, Santorum, George Pataki, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Pataki, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Colin Powell, Perle, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, President John F. Kennedy, President Eisenhower, Nixon administration, Glenn Hubbard, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, N. Gregory Mankiw, Jeb Bush, Hubbard, Harris, Republican president, William Bennett, The Reagans, Rudy Giuliani



List of Columns

Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
The Culture Wars Reach the Culture
10 November 2003
1272 74 10D-: Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Howard Dean, Joe Lieberman, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Barbra Streisand
7R+: Ronald Reagan, Republicans, the president, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan
3D=, 3R=
Iraq: Another Vietnam?
3 November 2003
1118 11 1D+: Howard Dean
2D-: Church, Edward Kennedy
1R+: Ronald Reagan
1R-: Case
3D=, 1R=
The Power of Modern Fads
27 October 2003
1095 100 1R+: John McCain
Prolonging the Depression
20 October 2003
1242 21 6D+: Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR, Henry Morgenthau, Morgenthau, Morgenthau, Morgenthau
11D-: Roosevelt, Roosevelt, FDR, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, President Roosevelt, the president, FDR, FDR, Roosevelt
1R+: Ronald Reagan
1R-: Republican president
3D=, 2R=
To Rally the Nation
6 October 2003
1093 50 1D-: Edward Kennedy
4R+: President Bush, the president, the president, Karl Rove
5R=
Exchange Rates: a Primer
29 September 2003
1111 50 3R-: Treasury Secretary James Baker, Treasury Secretary John Snow, administration
3R=
Angry Democrats: Lost Birthright
22 September 2003
1247 53 6D+: FDR, Democratic Party, Clinton, Clinton, Democratic, Franklin D. Roosevelt
19D-: Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Clinton, Clinton, Democratic Party, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic
14R+: Bush, Republicans, George Bush, Republicans, Republicans, President Bush, Republican, Republicans, Republican, Republicans, Republican, Eisenhower, George Bush, President Bush
2R-: Republicans, Republicans
3D=, 3R=
Angry Democrats: Florida and Beyond
15 September 2003
1264 67 1D+: Gore
27D-: Democrats, Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Democratic, Gray Davis, Davis, Dean, Gray Davis, Bill Clinton, President Clinton, Democrats, Democratic, Howard Dean, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Robert Torricelli, Paul Wellstone, Al Gore, Gore, Democratic, Gore, Gore, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats
18R+: President Bush, White House, George Bush, GOP, GOP, Republicans, Republican, George Bush, Bush, John Ashcroft, Richard Nixon, Katherine Harris, George Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, Bush, Republicans
3R-: Republican Party, Dean, Jim Jeffords
8D=, 4R=
Once Again: What We Learned
8 September 2003
1058 80 2D-: Democratic, Democratic
10R+: Bush administration, The president, White House, Bush, administration, President Bush, The president, the president, Powell, Bush
3R=
No Sauce for the Gander
18 August 2003
1041 0 4D-: Edward Kennedy, Democratic, Kennedy, Kennedy
1R+: House Republicans
5R-: President Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Karl Rove, George W. Bush
3R=
The Economy: Do No Harm
11 August 2003
1036 100 5D-: Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Howard Dean
1R+: Bush
The Stop-Dean Candidate: Hillary
4 August 2003
1352 37 8D+: Hillary, Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Dean, Hillary, Dick Morris, Dean
27D-: Dean, Howard Dean, Dean, John Kerry, Dean, Dean, Kerry, Gephardt, Lieberman, Kerry, Gephardt, Edwards, Graham, Moseley Braun, Sharpton, Kucinich, Dean, Clinton, Democratic, Teddy Kennedy, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic Party, Dean, Democrats
5R+: Bush, President Bush, the president, Bush, Republicans
2R-: President Bush, Bush administration
14D=, 3R=
The Press: Time for a New Era?
28 July 2003
1022 67 1D+: Bill Clinton
1R-: George H.W. Bush
1R=
Caterwauling at Bush
21 July 2003
1034 100 1D-: Democratic
10R+: Bush, President Bush, president, President Bush, President Bush, President Bush, The president, Bush, President Bush, the president
A 'Miranda' Warning for Saddam?
14 July 2003
1172 34 8D+: Democrats, Kerry, Lieberman, Edwards, Daschle, Dodd, Clinton, President William Jefferson Clinton
9D-: Democrats, Democratic National Committee, DNC, Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Democrats, Clinton administration, DNC, Howard Dean
10R+: President Bush, the president, the president, the president, Ford administration, Ronald Reagan, the president, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, President Bush, the president
1R-: White House
1R=
Behind the Prescription-Drug Standoff
7 July 2003
1223 43 1D+: Bill Clinton
13D-: Ted Kennedy, Kennedy, Democratic, Democrats, FDR, Democrats, Democrats, Edward Kennedy, Kennedy, Democratic, Rostenkowski, Kennedy, Kennedy
4R+: Grover Norquist, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans
4R-: administration, Bush, White House, Republican
3D=, 3R=
World Money at the Palazzo Mundell
30 June 2003
1070 0 3R=
Kennedy's Vietnam
16 June 2003
1172 47 1D+: president
14D-: Kennedy, JFK, JFK, Kennedy, Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, the president, the president, the president, President Kennedy, Kennedy administration, John F. Kennedy
1R+: president
11D=, 3R=
Joining LaRouche
9 June 2003
1212 35 7R+: Wolfowitz, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Bush, administration
1R-: Bush Administration
9R=
Economic Profit vs. Accounting Profit
2 June 2003
1068 0 1D-: Sarbanes
1R-: Oxley
New York's Self-Destruction
19 May 2003
1173 9 2D-: Democratic, Democrats
2R+: George Pataki, Pataki
5R-: Mike Bloomberg, Pataki, Senate Republicans, Pataki, Republicans
1D=, 1R=
Bloomberg to New York: Drop Dead
12 May 2003
1155 45 1R+: Giuliani
6R-: Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Olympia Snowe, Bloomberg, Pataki
4R=
Compulsive "borking" is a symptom of the left's sickness.
5 May 2003
1212 75 2D+: Democrats, Democratic
13D-: Strom Thurmond, Democrats, Democratic, Jerrold Nadler, Democratic, Tom Daschle, Minority Whip Harry Reid, Clinton, Daschle, Democrats, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Clinton
13R+: GOP, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rod Paige, Paige, Rick Santorum, GOP, Senate Republicans, Santorum
1D=, 3R=
Arms Control Folly
28 April 2003
1152 10 1R+: administration
4D=, 5R=
Cross Fire
21 April 2003
1139 67 10R+: President Bush, President George W. Bush, president, president, Bush, the president, Bush, George Bush, The president, president
5R=
Wow, Who Are the Smart Guys?
14 April 2003
1173 62 1D-: Democrats
11R+: Bush, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, administration, vice president, Cheney, Dick Cheney, Bush administration, the president, administration
2R-: Republican, Olympia Snowe
2R=
Whose 'Vietnam Syndrome'?
7 April 2003
1436 89 3D-: Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Johnson
5R+: Bush, Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Bush, president
1D=
The Loyal Opposition Digs a Hole
31 March 2003
1251 64 5D+: Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt, Democratic, Democratic, Senate Democrats
19D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, Daschle, Democrats, Senate Democrats, Mary Landrieu, Democrats, Former President Clinton, Patty Murray, Democrat, Richard Durbin, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Senate Democrats
12R+: President Bush, Bush, Republicans, J. Dennis Hastert, Republicans, president, President Bush, President Bush, GOP, the president, president, President Bush
1R-: the president
2D=
Was This War Necessary?
24 March 2003
1216 0 5D-: Clinton administration, Clinton, Tony Lake, Lake, Clinton administration
2R+: President Bush, President Bush
7R-: Republicans, Bush administration, administration, Colin Powell, Reagan administration, Jeane Kirkpatrick, President Reagan
1R=
When America Left Peace to France
17 March 2003
1047 0 2D=
On Repairing Economic Damage
10 March 2003
1190 36 1D-: Democratic
4R+: President Bush, Mankiw, Bush, Bush
9R=
Letter to a European Friend
3 March 2003
1137 73 5D-: Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic
3R+: President Bush, Bush, Ted Olson
2D=, 1R=
Two Decades of Warnings,
24 February 2003
1134 0 2D+: Carter administration, Carter
2R+: Alexander Haig, Reagan
Devil in the Details
10 February 2003
1175 62 5R+: administration, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush
3R=
Brothers Under Their Skins?
3 February 2003
1125 17 1R+: the president
5R=
Germany and France ought to read Resolution 1441.
27 January 2003
1182 100 6R+: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, President Bush, President Bush
The Dawning Bush Establishment?
20 January 2003
1252 30 7D+: Dean Acheson, Acheson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acheson, FDR, Larry Summers, FDR
8D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Democrats
20R+: Bush, Republican, Republicans, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, White House, Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Republican, Republicans, GOP, Bush, Bush, George Bush
8R-: Trent Lott, White House, Republicans, Lott, administration, Republicans, Republicans, President Bush
1R=