lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Paul Krugman
New York Times

Columns 95
Words 80754
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 77.73
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 74.80
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 76.26
Democratic Index 53.12
Republican Index -81.82
Positive Index 12.33
Negative Index 70.37
Neutral Index 17.29



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 103 Democrats(14), F.D.R. (8), Dean(7), Clinton(7), F.D.R.(7), Gore(6), Democratic(5), Murtha(5), Howard Dean(4), Al Gore(4), Ted Kennedy(2), Rooseveltian(2), Dick Durbin(2), Barbara Boxer, Eliot Spitzer, Democratic Party, Deanism, President Clinton, Charles Schumer, Schumer, Russ Feingold, Lieberman, House Democrats, Franklin Roosevelt, L.B.J. , Bill Clinton, Harry Truman, Democrat, L.B.J., Harry Reid, John Conyers Jr., Democratic National Committee, D.N.C. , Kerry, Conyers, Clinton administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt, administration, Reid, John Kerry, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi
Negative Democratic 18 Democrats(6), Lieberman(3), Democratic(3), Clintonesque, Joseph Lieberman, Clinton administration, Clinton, Richard Daley, Conyers
Neutral Democratic 39Democrats(18), Clinton(3), Democrat(3), Truman(3), Bill Clinton(2), Gore(2), Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Lieberman, Democratic National Committee, Truman administration, John Kerry, Conyers, Franklin Roosevelt, Murtha
Positive Republican 9 Republican(2), the first President George Bush, Republican Party, Chuck Hagel, George W. Bush, Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell
Negative Republican 621 Bush(175), administration(137), President Bush(46), Bush administration(40), Abramoff(23), White House(20), Republican(19), Republicans(16), Rove(15), Jack Abramoff(9), Tom DeLay(7), Cheney(7), Kerik(7), the president(6), Dick Cheney(5), Karl Rove(5), Wolfowitz(5), Gonzales(4), Republican Party(4), DeLay(4), Bernard Kerik(3), the President(3), George W. Bush(3), Rick Santorum(3), president(2), George Bush(2), Harris(2), Allbaugh(2), Scott McClellan(2), John Snow(2), Santorum(2), Norquist(2), Colin Powell(2), John Bolton, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, President, Hagel, Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani, Lee Atwater, Kristol, Katherine Harris, Alberto Gonzales, Kenneth Blackwell, Administration, Republican party, Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush, Michael Chertoff, Paul Wolfowitz, Rudy Giuliani, executive branch, Armey, Dick Armey, Jeb Bush, Grover Norquist, The president, Republican National Committee, Bill Frist, Frist, James Inhofe, Bob Ney, Ney, Billy Tauzin, Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan, Bushie
Neutral Republican 118Bush(36), administration(11), Republicans(10), Bush administration(10), President Bush(10), Karl Rove(4), White House(3), Republican(3), Tom DeLay(2), Ronald Reagan(2), Cheney(2), Reagan administration, Glenn Hubbard, Bushes, Rick Santorum, the president, Chris Shays, James Inhofe, John Snow, Roy Blunt, House Republican, Irving Kristol, Kristol, Joseph Allbaugh, George W. Bush, Reagan, Lee Atwater, Mike Leavitt, Samuel Bodman, Bill Thomas, Bodman, The president, McClellan, Dick Cheney, Michael Leavitt, Scott McClellan



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
Heck of a Job, Bushie
30 December 2005
905 75 2D+: Democrats, Howard Dean
15R-: Bushie, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican
6R=
Medicine: Who Decides?
26 December 2005
808 100 1R-: Bush administration
The Tax-Cut Zombies
23 December 2005
870 80 8R-: Dick Cheney, Cheney, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan, President Bush, Republican, Cheney, Republicans
2R=
Tankers on the Take
19 December 2005
894 82 1D-: Democratic
15R-: Bush administration, Bush, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Republican, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Republican, Abramoff, Republican
Drugs, Devices and Doctors
16 December 2005
796 0
Big Box Balderdash
12 December 2005
832 100 1R-: Bush administration
The Promiser in Chief
9 December 2005
833 88 7R-: President Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush
1R=
The Joyless Economy
5 December 2005
845 39 1D+: Clinton
1R-: Bush
4R=
Bullet Points Over Baghdad
2 December 2005
869 89 8R-: Bush administration, administration, Bush administration, administration, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, administration
1R=
Age of Anxiety
28 November 2005
786 0
Bad for the Country
25 November 2005
837 0
Time to Leave
21 November 2005
861 86 6D+: John Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha
6R-: President Bush, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush
1D=, 1R=
A Private Obsession
18 November 2005
801 67 2R-: Rick Santorum, Santorum
1R=
Health Economics 101
14 November 2005
805 0
The Deadly Doughnut
11 November 2005
838 100 3R-: Republican, President Bush, White House
Pride, Prejudice, Insurance
7 November 2005
813 100 1R-: Bush administration
Defending Imperial Nudity
4 November 2005
839 62 5R-: administration, administration, administration, administration, administration
2D=
Ending the Fraudulence
31 October 2005
950 73 1D+: John Kerry
1D-: Democrats
1R+: Colin Powell
20R-: administration, Bush administration, administration, President Bush, Cheney, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Cheney, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush administration, Cheney, Rumsfeld
2R=
Bernanke and the Bubble
28 October 2005
868 44 3D+: Rooseveltian, Democrats, Rooseveltian
1R+: Republican
2R-: Bush, John Snow
5R=
The Big Squeeze
17 October 2005
813 100 1R-: Bush administration
Questions of Character
14 October 2005
883 72 2D+: Al Gore, Howard Dean
11R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, President Bush, Colin Powell, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush
1D=, 4R=
Will Bush Deliver?
10 October 2005
897 81 17R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, White House, White House, administration, administration, Karl Rove, Scott McClellan, White House, Rove, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, administration
4R=
A Pig in a Jacket
7 October 2005
896 62 10R-: Dick Cheney, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, President Bush, administration, administration, Bush
6R=
Miserable by Design
3 October 2005
843 80 1R+: Newt Gingrich
13R-: White House, administration, administration, President Bush, administration, administration, White House, administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration
1R=
The Way It Is
30 September 2005
860 100 17R-: Bill Frist, Frist, Jack Abramoff, White House, James Inhofe, Abramoff, Abramoff, Bob Ney, Abramoff, Abramoff, Ney, Abramoff, Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Abramoff, Abramoff, DeLay
Find the Brownie
26 September 2005
904 89 25R-: Jack Abramoff, President Bush, Bush, Armey, Dick Armey, Jack Abramoff, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Norquist, Abramoff, Republican National Committee, Rove, Abramoff, Rove, Tom DeLay, DeLay, Abramoff, Abramoff, Norquist, White House
3R=
The Big Uneasy
23 September 2005
842 65 1D+: Howard Dean
4R-: George Bush, administration, President Bush, Bush
3R=
Tragedy in Black and White
19 September 2005
836 44 4R-: President Bush, administration, Republican, Bush administration
5R=
Not the New Deal
16 September 2005
910 90 10D+: Franklin D. Roosevelt, F.D.R. , F.D.R. , Roosevelt, F.D.R., administration, F.D.R. , F.D.R., F.D.R., F.D.R.
8R-: Bush administration, Karl Rove, administration, George W. Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush
1D=, 1R=
All the President's Friends
12 September 2005
878 100 2D+: Clinton, Clinton
12R-: the President, Bush administration, Republican, administration, Bush administration, John Snow, administration, Bernard Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, Kerik, executive branch, administration
Point Those Fingers
9 September 2005
911 91 1D+: Clinton
20R-: Bush administration, Allbaugh, Bush administration, Scott McClellan, White House, Bush, administration, administration, administration, Ari Fleischer, administration, Bush, President George W. Bush, Allbaugh, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Michael Chertoff
2R=
Killed by Contempt
5 September 2005
853 100 10R-: Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, administration, Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, administration, administration, administration
A Can't-Do Government
2 September 2005
840 85 1D+: Clinton
4R-: administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush
1R=
Greenspan and the Bubble
29 August 2005
820 40 1R-: Bush administration
1D=
Summer of Our Discontent
26 August 2005
850 60 2D+: Clinton administration, Al Gore
1D-: Conyers
3R-: administration, Bush administration, administration
Don't Prettify Our History
22 August 2005
843 54 5D+: Al Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore
2R+: George W. Bush, Bush
2R-: Bush, president
1D=, 1R=
What They Did Last Fall
19 August 2005
900 89 11D+: Al Gore, Gore, Gore, Democratic, Democratic, John Conyers Jr., Democratic National Committee, D.N.C. , Kerry, Democratic, Conyers
9R-: Katherine Harris, Harris, Bush administration, Republican Party, Kenneth Blackwell, Bush, Cheney, Harris, Republicans
2D=
Social Security Lessons
15 August 2005
843 80 2D+: F.D.R. , Democratic
11R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration
1D=, 2R=
Safe as Houses
12 August 2005
836 56 1D+: Clinton
1R-: administration
2R=
That Hissing Sound
8 August 2005
856 0
Design for Confusion
5 August 2005
808 60 3R-: Kristol, President Bush, Tom DeLay
2R=
Triumph of the Machine
1 August 2005
846 67 12R-: administration, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration
6R=
French Family Values
29 July 2005
824 100 1R-: Rick Santorum
Toyota, Moving Northward
25 July 2005
827 0
China Unpegs Itself
22 July 2005
801 0
The Dropout Puzzle
18 July 2005
805 0
Karl Rove's America
15 July 2005
977 97 2D+: Democrats, Democrat
27R-: Karl Rove, Rove, Rove, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Bush, Republican, Republican, Bush, Rove, Republicans, Rove, Rove, Rove, administration, administration, Rove, Rove, Rove, Republicans, Republicans, Rove, Rove, Rove, Bush, Lee Atwater, President Bush
1R=
Un-Spin the Budget
11 July 2005
839 100 7R-: White House, administration, the president, President Bush, Bush, administration, Bush
Free to Choose Obesity?
8 July 2005
790 0
Girth of a Nation
4 July 2005
830 0
America Held Hostage
1 July 2005
889 75 1R+: Chuck Hagel
10R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, White House, Hagel, Bush
1R=
The Chinese Challenge
27 June 2005
809 0
The War President
24 June 2005
884 91 10R-: President, President Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Dick Cheney, administration, Bush
1R=
What's the Matter With Ohio?
17 June 2005
828 62 1D+: Democrats
1D-: Richard Daley
5R-: Republican, Bush, Republican, Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff
One Nation, Uninsured
13 June 2005
819 12 2D+: Harry Truman, Ted Kennedy
1D-: Clinton
5D=
Losing Our Country
10 June 2005
814 100 3R-: administration, Bush, the President
Too Few, Yet Too Many
30 May 2005
815 100 4R-: President Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bush administration, administration
Running Out of Bubbles
27 May 2005
815 0
America Wants Security
23 May 2005
845 53 2D+: Democrats, F.D.R.
1D-: Democratic
3R-: President Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, DeLay
1R=
The Chinese Connection
20 May 2005
816 100 3R-: administration, administration, administration
Staying What Course?
16 May 2005
849 88 1D+: Bill Clinton
6R-: Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, John Bolton
1R=
Always Low Wages. Always.
13 May 2005
874 100 2D+: F.D.R. , L.B.J.
The Final Insult
9 May 2005
891 82 14R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
3R=
A Serious Drug Problem
6 May 2005
836 100 5R-: Republican, administration, Billy Tauzin, President Bush, Bush
A Gut Punch to the Middle
2 May 2005
868 100 1D+: F.D.R.
12R-: White House, administration, President Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
A Private Obsession
29 April 2005
853 46 1D+: Clinton
1R-: The president
3R=
The Oblivious Right
25 April 2005
894 79 1D+: Democratic
17R-: administration, administration, President Bush, Republican, Tom DeLay, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, Rick Santorum, Bush, administration, administration, Republican
2D=, 2R=
Passing the Buck
22 April 2005
793 0
A Whiff of Stagflation
18 April 2005
830 40 1R-: administration
1D=
The Medical Money Pit
15 April 2005
812 0
Ailing Health Care
11 April 2005
806 100 1R-: administration
An Academic Question
5 April 2005
870 23 1R+: Republican Party
5R-: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republican Party, Republican Party
3D=, 7R=
What's Going On?
29 March 2005
835 11 1D-: Democrats
2R-: Jeb Bush, DeLay
1R=
The Ugly American Bank
18 March 2005
834 68 1D-: Clinton administration
8R-: Paul Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, administration, White House, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz
The $600 Billion Man
15 March 2005
944 11 2D+: Lieberman, Democrats
6D-: Democrats, Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman, Democrats, Lieberman, Democrats
10R-: administration, Republicans, Republicans, Republican, administration, Bush, Bush, Republican party, administration, Republicans
7D=, 3R=
Slanting Social Security
11 March 2005
876 78 2D+: F.D.R., House Democrats
6R-: Bush, administration, White House, Bush, Cheney, President Bush
1D=, 1R=
The Debt-Peonage Society
8 March 2005
813 78 5D+: Charles Schumer, Schumer, Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, Dick Durbin
3R-: Republican, Republicans, administration
2D=
Deficits and Deceit
4 March 2005
874 43 1D+: President Clinton
1R+: Republican
6R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush
1D=, 5R=
Just Say No
1 March 2005
832 31 1D-: Lieberman
4R-: President Bush, administration, Bush, administration
1D=, 1R=
Kansas on My Mind
25 February 2005
845 80 4R-: White House, Bush, Republicans, Santorum
1R=
Wag-the-Dog Protection
22 February 2005
894 94 25R-: President Bush, administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Karl Rove, White House, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bernard Kerik, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush
1D=
Three-Card Maestro
18 February 2005
848 24 1D-: Democratic
5R-: Bush administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration
8R=
The Fighting Moderates
15 February 2005
959 76 22D+: Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democrats, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democrats, Harry Reid, Democrats, Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Barbara Boxer, Democrats, Democrats, Eliot Spitzer, Democratic Party, Dean, Democrats, Deanism
2D-: Clintonesque, Democrats
14R-: Republicans, administration, Republican Party, White House, Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush, President Bush, Republicans
4D=, 2R=
Bush's Class-War Budget
11 February 2005
906 71 1D+: Democrats
1R+: the first President George Bush
13R-: Bush, President Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush
1D=, 2R=
Spearing the Beast
8 February 2005
864 100 5D+: Franklin Roosevelt, F.D.R., L.B.J., F.D.R. , F.D.R.
8R-: President Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
Gambling With Your Retirement
4 February 2005
812 100 7R-: Bush, President Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, George Bush
Many Unhappy Returns
1 February 2005
848 100 1R-: the President
Little Black Lies
28 January 2005
855 89 8R-: administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
1R=
The Greenspan Succession
25 January 2005
864 72 1D+: Democrats
9R-: Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, administration
4R=
The Free Lunch Bunch
21 January 2005
814 71 5R-: Administration, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush
2R=
That Magic Moment
18 January 2005
860 100 15R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, White House, Bush, Bush
The British Evasion
14 January 2005
763 100 3R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, President Bush
The Iceberg Cometh
11 January 2005
845 90 9R-: Bush administration, White House, administration, administration, President Bush, President Bush, administration, Bush, Bush
1R=
Worse Than Fiction
7 January 2005
926 100 24R-: the president, administration, administration, the president, the president, Republican, administration, Kerik, Bernard Kerik, Rudolph Giuliani, President Bush, Giuliani, Kerik, Kerik, Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Kerik, Kerik, Gonzales, president, Kerik, Bush, Gonzales
Stopping the Bum's Rush
4 January 2005
822 100 4R-: administration, Bush administration, President Bush, Bush