lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal

Columns 45
Words 80508
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 0.00
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 14.83
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 7.42
Democratic Index -32.76
Republican Index 2.85
Positive Index 23.22
Negative Index 31.27
Neutral Index 45.51



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 20 Teddy(4), Hillary(2), Democratic(2), Jack Murtha(2), Democrat, JFK, Kennedys, Ted Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Jack Kennedy, Joe Lieberman, Harry Truman
Negative Democratic 96 Clinton(13), Democrats(13), Democratic(8), Howard Dean(6), Democratic Party(6), Hillary(5), Hillary Clinton(5), Bill Clinton(5), Barack Obama(3), Democratic National Committee(2), Dean(2), Obama(2), Nancy Pelosi(2), Ted Kennedy(2), the Clintons(2), Robert Byrd, David Pryor, Kennedys, Democratic chairman Dean, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Rodham, Harry Reid, Reid, Pelosi, James Carville, John Kerry, Democrat, Clintons, Lyndon Johnson, Senate Democrats, Jimmy Carter, Jennifer Granholm, Bobby Byrd, Jon Corzine, Warren Beatty
Neutral Democratic 116Democrats(25), Hillary(16), Clinton(11), Democratic(7), Bill Clinton(5), Democrat(5), Corzine(5), Hillary Clinton(5), Democratic Party(3), Kerry(2), JFK(2), Mark Warner(2), Barney Frank(2), DNC, Democratic party, John Kerry, John Kennedy, George Stephanopoulos, Harry S. Truman, Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Levin, Lyndon B. Johnson, Vince Foster, Barack Obama, Robert Byrd, Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Rosalyn Carter, president Clinton, Richard Ben-Veniste, the president, Kathleen Blanco, Dennis Kucinich, Hubert Humphrey, Joe Lieberman, Edwin Edwards, Murtha, John F. Kennedy
Positive Republican 156 Bush(35), Republicans(17), the president(10), Ronald Reagan(8), Reagan(8), administration(6), President Bush(5), Republican(5), Bolton(5), Eisenhower(3), McCain(3), John Bolton(3), George Bush(3), president(3), Rush Limbaugh(2), Laura Bush(2), Chuck Colson(2), Giuliani(2), Barbour(2), George W. Bush(2), Gerald Ford(2), The president(2), Richard Nixon, John McCain, Republican Party, Ken Mehlman, Republican National Committee, GOP, White House, Nancy Reagan, Ike, Rudy Giuliani, Haley Barbour, Reagan White House, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, Bill Casey, Reaganites, Reagan administration, Republican Senate, W. , Barry Goldwater, George H.W. Bush, the Terminator, Lott, Mike Bloomberg, Donald Rumsfeld, Pat Buchanan
Negative Republican 141 Bush(31), the president(20), White House(17), administration(10), The president(5), president(5), President Bush(4), Bush White House(4), Republican(3), George H.W. Bush(3), Nixon(3), John McCain(3), George W. Bush(3), Quayle(3), Schwarzenegger(3), Lindsey Graham(2), Republicans(2), Trent Lott(2), Bush administration(2), Mike Bloomberg, the Bushes, Newt, McCarthyism, Republican Party, Mike DeWine, Mehlman, R-, DeLay, Dan Quayle, Bill Frist, Laura Bush, Ed Gillespie, George Bush, Nixon White House, GOP
Neutral Republican 229Bush(46), Republicans(31), the president(21), administration(18), White House(16), Republican(13), George W. Bush(11), President Bush(6), Republican Party(5), Bush administration(5), The president(5), president(3), McCain(3), George Bush(3), Richard Nixon(2), Condi(2), Reagan(2), Barbara Bush(2), Forrester(2), Condi Rice, Bush White House, Rice, Lindsey Graham, Bob Dole, Bolton, Graham, President Nixon, Nixon, Colson, James Baker, Tom Delay, Dan Quayle, Bill Frist, the Bushes, Karl Rove, Bill Bennett, Newt, John McCain, former president, Bushes, the President, George H.W. Bush, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Alberto Gonzales, GOP, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Trent Lott, Doug Forrester, McCarthy, Bloomberg, Colin Powell



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
The biggest stories of the year just past, plus a look ahead to '06.
29 December 2005
1196 32 3D-: Democratic Party, Democrats, Warren Beatty
1R+: President Bush
5D=, 4R=
One Cheer for the MSM
22 December 2005
1117 0
It's Not About Bush
15 December 2005
1815 12 2D+: Joe Lieberman, Harry Truman
4D-: Democrats, Howard Dean, Bill Clinton, Clinton
12R+: the president, the president, Bush, Bush, the president, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan
20R-: Bush, the president, The president, White House, Bush White House, the president, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush White House, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush White House, Bush, Bush
2R=
The American Way
8 December 2005
1680 0 1R+: president
1R-: the president
2R=
Book Tour
23 November 2005
1359 17 2D+: Jack Murtha, Jack Murtha
3R+: Donald Rumsfeld, administration, Bush
3R-: Bush, administration, Republicans
3D=, 4R=
To Boldly Go . . .
10 November 2005
1654 0 2D+: Democrats, Democratic
2D-: Bobby Byrd, Jon Corzine
7R+: George H.W. Bush, the Terminator, Ronald Reagan, Lott, McCain, McCain, Mike Bloomberg
7R-: Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, GOP, White House, Republican, John McCain
8D=, 13R=
The Dean's Scream
3 November 2005
1716 20 1D+: Bill Clinton
2D-: Democratic, Jennifer Granholm
5R+: Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, the president
2R-: Bush, the president
1D=, 9R=
A Separate Peace
27 October 2005
2309 70 7D+: Kennedys, Teddy, Ted Kennedy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy Kennedy, Teddy
1R-: President Bush
2D=, 2R=
How Bush Can Save Bush
20 October 2005
1847 3 6R+: Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, W. , Bush, Barry Goldwater
7R-: Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, administration, The president, the president, George Bush
1D=, 18R=
Fasten Your Beltway
13 October 2005
1708 42 1D-: Jimmy Carter
14R-: White House, administration, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, Quayle, Quayle, Quayle, White House, administration, White House, Laura Bush, Ed Gillespie, White House, White House
14R=
The Miers Misstep
6 October 2005
2004 32 1D-: Senate Democrats
1R+: Republicans
9R-: President Bush, administration, The president, The president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president
9R=
The Scofflaw Swimmer
29 September 2005
1991 0 2R+: Gerald Ford, Rush Limbaugh
2R-: DeLay, the president
Is Bush's big spending a bridge to nowhere?
22 September 2005
2848 0 5D-: Democrats, Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Lyndon Johnson
13R+: Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reaganites, Reagan, Reagan, Republican, Bush, Ronald Reagan, Reagan administration, Reagan, Gerald Ford, Republican
21R-: Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, the president, the president, White House, the president, Mehlman, George W. Bush, administration, Republican, George H.W. Bush, Bush, Bush White House, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration
10D=, 30R=
The Storm Before the Balm
15 September 2005
2045 13 1D+: Democratic
4D-: Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton
3R+: George W. Bush, Republican, Eisenhower
13R-: administration, President Bush, White House, White House, administration, White House, administration, White House, Bush administration, president, president, Bush, Republican Party
19R=
We Can All Relate
8 September 2005
2196 0
After the Storm
1 September 2005
2065 67 7R+: Rudy Giuliani, Haley Barbour, Giuliani, Barbour, Giuliani, Barbour, Dick Cheney
1D=, 2R=
Think Dark
25 August 2005
1360 15 1D+: JFK
1R+: Ronald Reagan
1R=
Just Friends
18 August 2005
1418 22 12D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Democrat, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clintons, Clinton, Clinton, Hillary, Hillary
3R+: Republicans, Eisenhower, Ike
8R-: George H.W. Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, the Bushes, Newt, John McCain
12D=, 13R=
Bookends
11 August 2005
1964 51 7D-: John Kerry, Howard Dean, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Hillary Clinton
22R+: President Bush, Republicans, the president, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, Eisenhower, Reagan, Republicans, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Bush, Bush, Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan
8D=, 19R=
Almost Heaven
4 August 2005
2627 50 1D+: Democrat
1D=
Conceit of Government
29 June 2005
1402 71 8D-: Obama, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Obama, the Clintons, the Clintons, Barack Obama
1R-: Bill Frist
1D=, 1R=
Eine Kleine Biographie
23 June 2005
1398 12 1D+: Hillary
3D-: Hillary Rodham, Hillary, Hillary
1R+: Bush
16D=, 2R=
P Is for Permanent
16 June 2005
1589 12 1D-: Democratic Party
5D=, 4R=
Seeing Red
9 June 2005
1560 64 21D-: Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democratic, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Clinton, Democratic chairman Dean, Clinton, Dean, Clinton, Democratic, Dean, Democratic Party, Democratic, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean
17R+: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, President Bush, Bush, Republican Party, Bush, John McCain, Republican, Ken Mehlman, Republican National Committee, Bush, McCain, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush
12D=, 9R=
The Legend of Deep Throat
2 June 2005
1274 16 5R+: Pat Buchanan, Chuck Colson, Richard Nixon, president, Chuck Colson
8R-: Nixon, Nixon, president, president, Nixon, president, Nixon White House, White House
1D=, 4R=
Mr. Narcissus Goes to Washington
26 May 2005
1220 4 3D-: Robert Byrd, David Pryor, Kennedys
5R-: Lindsey Graham, Mike DeWine, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, R-
1D=, 1R=
The Shoe Must Go On?
12 May 2005
1234 22 1R+: Republican Senate
1D=, 2R=
Too Much Information?
5 May 2005
959 0
Beltway Bullfight
28 April 2005
1081 43 8R+: John Bolton, John Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, John Bolton
5D=, 3R=
Why They Ran
21 April 2005
1264 0
The Cardinal
14 April 2005
1610 0
When John Paul II went to Poland, communism didn't have a prayer.
7 April 2005
2859 100 2R+: Reagan, Bill Casey
Riding the Waves
31 March 2005
1280 0 1D+: Hillary
1D-: Clinton
6D=, 6R=
In Love With Death
24 March 2005
1324 100 3D-: Democratic National Committee, Democratic, James Carville
3R+: Republicans, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Republicans
Flannery O'Connor Country
17 March 2005
3921 0
Defense Begins at Home
10 March 2005
1729 64 1D-: Democratic
3R+: Bush, President Bush, president
1R-: the president
And That's the Way It Was
3 March 2005
1881 0 1D=
I'll Link to That
24 February 2005
1914 29 2D-: Hillary, Clinton
1D=, 6R=
The Blogs Must Be Crazy
17 February 2005
1963 20 1R-: Trent Lott
2D=, 1R=
Victim Soul
10 February 2005
3429 0
Normal Service Resumed
4 February 2005
1311 86 6D-: Democratic, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Reid, Pelosi
13R+: George Bush, George Bush, Bush, Bush, George Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, Republicans, Bush, the president, the president, The president
1D=, 2R=
A Sourpuss? Moi?
27 January 2005
2289 13 1D+: Jack Kennedy
6R+: White House, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan White House, Bush
7R-: the president, administration, Bush, the president, White House, White House, Bush
5R=
Way Too Much God
21 January 2005
1614 5 4R+: Laura Bush, Bush, the president, The president
5R-: the president, the president, Bush, The president, White House
12R=
MSM Requiem
13 January 2005
1954 20 4R+: Bush, GOP, Rush Limbaugh, Reagan
2R-: McCarthyism, Trent Lott
4R=
If I Were a Democrat
6 January 2005
1530 22 6D-: Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, Jesse Jackson, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats
2R+: President Bush, Republicans
3R-: Republican, Mike Bloomberg, Republicans
11D=, 6R=