lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post

Columns 48
Words 43443
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 63.73
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 63.39
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 63.56
Democratic Index -64.34
Republican Index 61.67
Positive Index 34.93
Negative Index 44.25
Neutral Index 20.82
Kerry Index -65.10
Bush Index 68.35



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 27 Kerry(8), Clinton(4), John Kerry(2), Kennedy, Dean, Democrats, Hubert Humphrey, Madeleine Albright, Humphrey, Democratic, Johnson administration, Arthur Goldberg, Franklin Roosevelt, Max Cleland, Al Gore, Harry Truman
Negative Democratic 276 Kerry(87), Democrats(39), Dean(22), John Kerry(20), Clinton(18), Democratic(13), Howard Dean(7), Edwards(6), Clinton administration(6), Bill Clinton(4), Wesley Clark(3), Democrat(3), Al Gore(3), Feingold(3), George Soros(2), Edward Kennedy(2), Democratic National Committee(2), president(2), Terry McAuliffe(2), Gore(2), John Edwards(2), administration, Hubert Humphrey, Janet Reno, Clark Clifford, Clifford, Johnson, Carter, John Glenn, president of the United States, Pat Leahy, Al Sharpton, former vice president of the United States, Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney, Clintonian, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Gephardt, Soros, Harold Ickes, Adlai Stevenson, Democratic Party, Zell Miller, Miller, Berger, Clinton White House, White House, Tom Daschle
Neutral Democratic 84Kerry(22), John Kerry(10), Democrats(5), Clinton(5), Democratic(4), Howard Dean(3), Kennedy(3), Clinton administration(3), FDR(3), Democratic Party(2), Bill Clinton(2), Dean(2), President Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, William Cohen, Hubert Humphrey, John Kennedy, Humphrey, Al Gore, Gore, John F. Kennedy, Michael Dukakis, George Wallace, Democrat, Dennis Kucinich, Richard Holbrooke, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Sandy Berger, Democratic President, Democratic president, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Positive Republican 213 Bush(58), Reagan(22), President Bush(15), Bush administration(14), Republicans(14), the president(12), George Bush(11), administration(10), president(9), Cheney(8), George W. Bush(7), Rumsfeld(4), Republican(3), Ronald Reagan(3), Vice President Cheney(2), Republican National Committee(2), Donald Rumsfeld(2), The president(2), John McCain(2), Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Bob Dole, vice president, Dole, Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold, commander in chief, Secretary of State Colin Powell, McCain, the President, The President, Gingrich
Negative Republican 28 Bush(6), Bush administration(3), McCain(3), Nixon(2), the president(2), Republican(2), administration, Nixonian, Ford, President Bush 41, president, McCarthy, McCarthyism, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Reagan
Neutral Republican 59Bush(16), the president(6), Republican(5), administration(5), President Bush(4), The president(2), George Bush(2), White House(2), president of the United States, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Harold Stassen, Bush administration, president, Republicans, Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Paul O'Neill, Reagan, Richard Nixon, Nixon, Richard Armitage, GOP



List of Columns

Lines in yellow indicate a substantive crossover column, meaning that the column is of opposite sign to the pundit's Normalized Total PI for the season, and contains at least five non-neutral partisan references.
Title/
Date
words Norm
PI
Partisan References
Discoveries, Real and Imagined
24 December 2004
869 0
Just Leave Christmas Alone
17 December 2004
856 0
The Afghan Miracle
10 December 2004
911 100 5R+: Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, administration, Bush
Why Only in Ukraine?
3 December 2004
853 68 3R+: Bush, Bush administration, George Bush
1D=
A Fight for Shiites
26 November 2004
815 0
'Moral Values' Myth
12 November 2004
933 92 2D-: Democratic, Democratic
8R+: Gingrich, Republicans, Republicans, President Bush, Bush, Bush, George Bush, Bush
1R=
Using All of a Mandate . . .
5 November 2004
933 39 1D+: Harry Truman
3D-: Tom Daschle, Bill Clinton, Clinton
7R+: George Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
3R-: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Reagan
2R=
Kerry's Afghan Amnesia
29 October 2004
898 92 7D-: Kerry, Clinton administration, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
7R+: Bush administration, president, President Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush
1D=
Sacrificing Israel
22 October 2004
917 70 9D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrat, Berger, Clinton White House, White House, John Kerry, Kerry
4R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
5D=
An Edwards Outrage
15 October 2004
959 90 14D-: Edwards, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards
7R+: Bush, George Bush, the President, Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan, The President
2D=
Terrorists' Candidates?
8 October 2004
937 18 6R+: George Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration
2R-: McCarthy, McCarthyism
4D=, 8R=
The Vietnamization of John Kerry
1 October 2004
953 65 16D-: John Kerry, John Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
2R+: John McCain, administration
1R-: Nixon
6D=, 2R=
The Art Of Losing Friends
24 September 2004
944 71 11D-: Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
1R+: Bush
4D=, 1R=
Nowhere Left to Flop
17 September 2004
966 38 1D+: Al Gore
12D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
1R-: president
10D=, 5R=
Kerry the Spectator
10 September 2004
1023 73 18D-: Kerry, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, John Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Democrats, John Kerry, Zell Miller, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Clinton, Miller, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats
11R+: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, John McCain, President Bush, McCain, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Vice President Cheney, Cheney
3R-: Bush administration, Republican, Bush
1D=, 5R=
The Pressure-Cooker Theory
27 August 2004
945 85 14D-: Democrat, Democrats, Adlai Stevenson, Democrats, John Kerry, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Al Gore, Edward Kennedy, Howard Dean, Democrats, Democrats
15R+: Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George Bush, Reagan, Arnold, Republicans, Bush, Bush, president, president, commander in chief, Bush, the president, George W. Bush
1R-: the president
4R=
A Better Defense
20 August 2004
917 94 7D-: Democrats, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, John Kerry, Clinton administration, Democrats, Democrats
5R+: Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, administration, The president, president
1R=
This Is Reform?
13 August 2004
982 38 3D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
13D-: Feingold, Feingold, George Soros, Democratic, Feingold, Kerry, Soros, Democrats, Harold Ickes, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
5R+: President Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, George Bush
4R-: McCain, McCain, Republican, McCain
5D=, 1R=
Muffing the Bounce
6 August 2004
990 62 2D+: Franklin Roosevelt, Max Cleland
15D-: Kerry, Democrats, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Bill Clinton, Clintonian, Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Al Gore, Kerry
8R+: Bob Dole, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Dole, the president, Bush administration, Bush, Republican
2R-: Nixonian, Bush
3D=, 1R=
Axis of Evil, Part Two
23 July 2004
865 67 3D-: John Kerry, Democrats, Democrats
3R+: Bush, President Bush, Bush administration
1R-: Bush administration
1R=
Travesty at The Hague
16 July 2004
853 0
Blixful Amnesia
9 July 2004
897 100 1D-: Cynthia McKinney
4R+: President Bush, the president, Bush, Bush
In Defense of the F-Word
2 July 2004
913 96 7D-: Pat Leahy, Democrats, Democratic, Al Gore, former vice president of the United States, Gore, Gore
12R+: Dick Cheney, Cheney, vice president, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, administration, president, George Bush, Cheney
1R=
Clinton Writ Small
25 June 2004
938 47 2D+: Clinton, Clinton
13D-: Clinton, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, president, Clinton, Clinton, president, Clinton, Clinton, president of the United States, Clinton, Clinton
3R+: Reagan, Reagan, Reagan
3R-: Nixon, Ford, Bush
4D=
Israel's Intifada Victory
18 June 2004
800 0
Reagan Revisionism
11 June 2004
937 96 2D-: Clark Clifford, Clifford
22R+: Reagan, president, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, George W. Bush, president, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan
1R=
Iraq History Lesson
4 June 2004
842 100 1D-: George Soros
1R+: Bush
Parenthesis to History
28 May 2004
877 0
Tax and Drill
21 May 2004
873 88 6D-: Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats
2R+: administration, Bush
1D=
The Abu Ghraib Panic
14 May 2004
919 83 4D-: Democrats, Janet Reno, Democrats, Democrats
9R+: Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, the president, Rumsfeld, administration, the president, Rumsfeld, the president
3R=
Abu Ghraib as Symbol
7 May 2004
815 0
The Real Mideast 'Poison'
30 April 2004
923 17 3D+: Clinton, Johnson administration, Arthur Goldberg
3R+: Bush administration, Bush, Bush
Kerry Adrift
23 April 2004
963 58 2D+: Democratic, Kerry
16D-: Kerry, administration, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Democratic, Democratic, Hubert Humphrey, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
1R+: Bush
1R-: administration
2D=, 4R=
This Is Hardly Vietnam
16 April 2004
854 0 1R=
An Ideal Goes Starving
11 April 2004
932 25 3D+: Hubert Humphrey, Madeleine Albright, Humphrey
9D-: Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, John Edwards, John Kerry, Edwards, Democrat, Democrats, Democrats
11D=, 1R=
Phony Apology
2 April 2004
839 67 1D-: Howard Dean
9R+: President Bush, George Bush, George Bush, George W. Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
3D=, 1R=
Sept. 11, Lies and 'Mistakes'
26 March 2004
944 81 12D-: Clinton administration, Bill Clinton, Clinton administration, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton administration, Clinton administration
6R+: Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice, Bush administration
3D=, 1R=
Spaniards Capitulating . . .
19 March 2004
841 0
Tripe a la Mode
12 March 2004
888 56 1D+: Clinton
3D-: Kerry, Democrats, Kerry
6R+: George Bush, the president, Bush administration, Bush, Bush administration, Bush
3D=
Gibson's Blood Libel
5 March 2004
844 0
Revolution by Fiat
27 February 2004
885 37 1D-: Democrats
2R+: Republican National Committee, the president
2D=, 3R=
The Democrats' Smear Race
20 February 2004
1024 100 26D-: Democrats, Democrats, John Kerry, Kerry, Al Sharpton, Kerry, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Kerry, Edward Kennedy, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Wesley Clark, John Edwards, Dean, Kerry, Dean, Richard Gephardt, Democratic, Dean, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
19R+: Republicans, George W. Bush, Republicans, President Bush, Bush, president, Bush, president, Bush, the president, George W. Bush, the president, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Republican National Committee, Republicans, Republican, Bush
The Other Shoe
13 February 2004
818 33 1R+: administration
2R=
After Sept. 11, It's Veterans Day
6 February 2004
966 18 7D+: John Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
3D-: Kerry, Democrats, Wesley Clark
2R+: President Bush, George W. Bush
1R-: Bush
5D=, 1R=
Calling Iraq's Bluff
30 January 2004
844 69 1D-: Democratic
7R+: President Bush, Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, the president
2D=, 1R=
Paradise Lost
23 January 2004
985 69 1D+: Dean
20D-: Howard Dean, Dean, Democratic, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democrats, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean
3R+: Republican, Bush, Bush
1R-: the president
2D=, 5R=
A Modest Proposal
16 January 2004
903 4 1D+: Kennedy
2D-: John Glenn, Howard Dean
2R+: The president, the president
4R-: Bush administration, Bush, Bush, President Bush 41
3D=, 2R=
Why We Are Safer
9 January 2004
860 84 4D-: Howard Dean, Dean, Democrats, Dean
2R+: Bush administration, Bush administration
1D=