lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Joe Conason
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Columns 93
Words 103065
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 64.44
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 57.47
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 60.95
Democratic Index 27.79
Republican Index -68.01
Positive Index 16.78
Negative Index 58.83
Neutral Index 24.39



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 329 Clinton(53), Democrats(38), Democratic(26), Obama(21), Pelosi(13), the Clintons(13), Hillary Clinton(11), Bill Clinton(10), D-(8), Gore(8), Democrat(7), President Clinton(7), Nancy Pelosi(5), Barack Obama(5), Clinton administration(5), Clark(4), Hillary Rodham Clinton(3), Clinton White House(3), Hillary(3), John Kerry(3), Al Gore(3), Feingold(3), Edwards(3), Kerry(3), Lee Hamilton(2), Muskie(2), Jackson(2), Senate Democrats(2), Russ Feingold(2), Clintons(2), Wesley Clark(2), Dodd(2), Biden(2), Edward Kennedy, Kennedy, Hamilton, Lockhart, Barry Obama, Edmund Muskie, John Lindsay, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Ed Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Humphrey, Frank Lautenberg, former President Bill Clinton, President and Mrs. Clinton, Murtha, former vice president, Eric Holder, Janet Reno, Henry Waxman, Charles Schumer, Democratic President, John Conyers, Conyers, Gen. Wesley Clark, Vernon Jordan, former first lady, presidency, Bill and Hillary, Franklin and Eleanor, Carl Levin, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gary Hart, Ken Salazar, Jay Inslee, Inslee, Clinton presidency, Peter Rodino, Patrick Leahy, Harry Reid, Hillarycare, Harry S. Truman, Tom Daschle, Daschle, Sheldon Whitehouse, David Dinkins, Dinkins, Chris Dodd, President Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Jim Guy Tucker, first lady , Lieberman, Joe Biden
Negative Democratic 132 Democrats(16), Obama(16), Clinton(15), Penn(12), Democratic(11), Hillary Clinton(6), Edwards(5), Barack Obama(5), Mark Penn(3), John Edwards(3), Congressional Democrats(2), Jimmy Carter(2), Democrat(2), Rostenkowksi(2), D-(2), Sharpton(2), Bob Kerrey(2), Democratic Party, Gerald Rafshoon, Hamilton Jordan, Dean, Rafshoon, Jordan, Hillary, John Kerry, president, Senate Democrats, Dan Rostenkowski, Rostenkowski, Mel Reynolds, Walter Tucker, President, Carter, congressional Democrats, Democratic Leadership Council, DLC, former president, President Clinton, HillaryCare, Clinton administration, Dem, Democratic Congress, the Clintons
Neutral Democratic 248Clinton(41), Democrats(39), Obama(29), Democratic(24), Hillary(15), Hillary Clinton(9), Democrat(8), Barack Obama(6), the Clintons(6), Bill Clinton(5), Hillary Rodham Clinton(4), Democratic Party(4), Edwards(4), Penn(4), Nancy Pelosi(3), John Edwards(3), Gore(3), Clinton administration(3), Clark(3), Pelosi(2), Harry Reid(2), Congressional Democrats(2), Al Gore(2), the president(2), Joe Lockhart, Democratic Congress, George McGovern, Vince Foster, Hillary and Bill, President Clinton, Jack Murtha, D-, Rostenkowski, Al Sharpton, Sharpton, Edward Kennedy, Clintons, Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR, Roosevelt, first lady , Senate Democrats, Madeleine Albright, Max Cleland, John Kerry, Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, Reid, Lieberman
Positive Republican 110 Republican(12), Giuliani(11), Republicans(7), the president(4), Ensign(4), John McCain(4), Kean(4), James Baker III(3), R-(3), the President(3), Wolf(3), Ronald Reagan(3), Bush(3), Reagan(2), Condoleezza Rice(2), President Bush(2), Limbaugh(2), Tom Kean(2), administration(2), Baker, Bailey, Bob Barr, Barr, Arlen Specter, Snow, McCain, Frank Wolf, GOP, Darrell Issa, Robert Aderholt, Joseph Pitts, Issa, James Baker, Rice, Condi, Presidency, Edwin Meese, Robert Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Bush administration, Warren Rudman, Colin Powell, Gonzales, Republican Party, Edwin Meese III, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mitt Romney, Rove, Wolfowitz, John Ensign, Republican Senate, White House, first Bush administration
Negative Republican 1407 Bush(121), Giuliani(113), Republican(96), White House(79), Bush administration(73), Republicans(52), Cheney(50), the president(49), Gonzales(45), Rove(41), the President(37), Huckabee(33), Libby(27), George W. Bush(25), administration(24), President Bush(24), Bush White House(23), Karl Rove(20), Romney(20), vice president(17), Rudy(17), Rudolph Giuliani(16), Olson(15), Kerik(13), Rice(13), Alberto Gonzales(12), Reagan(11), Limbaugh(11), Vice President(10), Craig(10), Stevens(10), Vice President Dick Cheney(9), Republican Party(8), president(8), John McCain(8), Nixon(7), Dick Cheney(7), McCain(7), The President(6), GOP(6), Wolfowitz(6), Mitt Romney(6), Scaife(5), Pence(5), Bernard Kerik(5), Donald Rumsfeld(5), Vice President Cheney(5), Mukasey(5), President(4), McClellan(4), Specter(4), R-(4), Domenici(4), The president(4), G.O.P. (4), Newt Gingrich(4), Reagan administration(3), Condoleezza Rice(3), Hunt(3), Rush Limbaugh(3), Dubya(3), Ari Fleischer(3), Fleischer(3), Cunningham(3), Snow(3), Scott McClellan(3), Scooter Libby(3), Rudy Giuliani(3), presidency(3), Republican National Committee(2), Nixonian(2), Goldberg(2), Randy "Duke" Cunningham(2), Rick Renzi(2), Richard M. Nixon(2), Pete Domenici(2), Barr(2), Republican administration(2), Graham(2), Paul Wolfowitz(2), Powell(2), Keller(2), Richard Armitage(2), Foley(2), Larry Craig(2), Ted Olson(2), Mike Huckabee(2), R.-, Tom Coburn, E. Howard Hunt, President Nixon, G. Gordon Liddy, Donald Segretti, Lucianne Goldberg, Segretti, Tricky Dick, Roger Ailes, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Scooter, Arlen Specter, Mary Cheney, Liz Cheney, Randy (Duke) Cunningham, Heather Wilson, Bush 41, President George H.W. Bush, Bush cabinet, William Barr, C. Boyden Gray, Tony Snow, Dan Bartlett, executive branch, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Presidency, Mike Pence, G.O.P., Goldwater, Richard Nixon, John Sununu, Elizabeth Cheney, Rovian, Richard Perle, Condi Rice, Condi, Colin Powell, Coburn, Ric Keller, Randy Forbes, Forbes, James Baker III, Alfonse D'Amato, Tom DeLay, Henry Hyde, Starr, Ronald Reagan, Reaganite, Senate Republicans, Ralph Reed, David Vitter, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Bushies, George Herbert Walker Bush, Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, Joe McCarthy, the Reagans, Arthur Finkelstein, Finkelstein, Ed Schrock, Mark Foley, Republican Congress, Schrock, Young Republican, Bush Administration, Theodore B. Olson, Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales, Richard Mellon Scaife, Reagan White House, Bush Republicans, Jon Kyl, Sam Brownback, Fred Thompson, Rumsfeld, Ted Stevens, Michael Mukasey, Robertson, vice presidential, President George W. Bush, vice President, Judith Nathan Giuliani, Nathan, Judi Nathan, Huck
Neutral Republican 390Giuliani(39), Bush(31), Republican(30), Republicans(27), the president(25), White House(14), Bush administration(13), the President(10), George W. Bush(9), Gonzales(9), McClellan(9), President Bush(8), Reagan(6), Rove(6), Rudolph Giuliani(6), R-(6), Karl Rove(5), administration(5), Romney(5), president(4), Rice(4), GOP(3), Cheney(3), John McCain(3), Scott McClellan(3), Dick Cheney(3), Senate Republicans(3), McCain(3), Republican Party(3), Lugar(3), Domenici(3), Rudy(3), The president(3), Mike Huckabee(3), Huckabee(3), Libby(2), Mary Cheney(2), Nixon(2), Wolfowitz(2), Condoleezza Rice(2), Bush White House(2), Fred Thompson(2), Mitt Romney(2), Richard Lugar(2), Rudy Giuliani(2), Michael Mukasey(2), Mukasey(2), vice president(2), Doug Bailey, Matt Dowd, Republicanism, Newt Gingrich, John Warner, R.-, president of the United States, Vice President, Richard Mellon Scaife, Scaife, John Ensign, President Reagan, Reagan administration, William French Smith, Smith, Pence, Lindsey Graham, Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Bolton, Ronald Wilson Reagan, President, Reaganesque, Arlen Specter, Tom Coburn, Keller, Darrell Issa, Louie Gohmert, Vice President Cheney, Kenneth Starr, Starr, Pete Domenici, Susan Collins, John Sununu, Lamar Alexander, Duncan Hunter, President Nixon, George W. Romney, was governor of Michigan at the time.)

Now Romney, commander in chief, Ron Paul, Paul, Republican National Committee, Henry Kissinger, Finkelstein, Rush Limbaugh, Thompson, Rumsfeld, George H.W. Bush, Norm Coleman, Craig, Kean, Stephen Hadley




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
Obama's European problem
29 December 2007
1044 4 5D+: Joe Biden, D-, Biden, Biden, Clinton administration
8D-: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
2R-: Bush administration, Bush White House
5D=, 2R=
Why conservatives love Barack Obama
21 December 2007
1236 30 13D+: Clinton, Hillary Clinton, the Clintons, Hillary Clinton, first lady , Obama, Clinton White House, the Clintons, Obama, Obama, Obama, Democrat, Lieberman
2D-: Bob Kerrey, Mark Penn
4R-: Republican, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh
28D=, 4R=
Hillary's Still In This Race
18 December 2007
1033 9 6D+: Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Obama, Clinton
9D-: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Obama, Clinton, Bob Kerrey, Mark Penn, Penn, Penn, the Clintons
16D=, 4R=
Huckabee and criminals: It's worse than just Wayne DuMond
14 December 2007
1146 83 2D+: Bill Clinton, Jim Guy Tucker
1R+: Republicans
14R-: Huckabee, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Huck, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
1R=
The Mercy of Mike Huckabee
12 December 2007
1012 77 3D+: President Clinton, Clinton, Democratic
14R-: Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Republican, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
1D=, 4R=
Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance
7 December 2007
1260 80 1D+: Democratic Party
23R-: Romney, Huckabee, Republican, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Romney, Romney, Romney, Huckabee, Huckabee, Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, President Bush, Romney, Romney, Romney, Huckabee, Huckabee, Romney, Romney, Huckabee
3D=, 3R=
Facts Derail Bush's Iran Plan
4 December 2007
986 80 20R-: Bush, George W. Bush, White House, the president, the president, administration, President Bush, White House, White House, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, the president, the president, Bush, administration, White House, the president, Republican, John McCain, Rudolph Giuliani
5R=
Giuliani's terrorist ties
30 November 2007
1269 90 18R-: Giuliani, Rudy, Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani, Judith Nathan Giuliani, Giuliani, Nathan, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Republican, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Judi Nathan
2R=
Bush's ‘Grown-Up' Summit Highlights Middle East Failure
27 November 2007
992 58 1D+: President Bill Clinton
2R+: first Bush administration, Bush
12R-: Bush, Bush White House, the president, Dubya, The president, administration, Bush, Bush White House, Bush, Bush, president, the president
4R=
Did Bush ask Scott McClellan to lie -- or didn't he?
21 November 2007
1792 65 4D+: Chris Dodd, D-, Dodd, Dodd
1D-: Democratic Congress
3R+: administration, administration, White House
61R-: Bush, Scott McClellan, Bush administration, Scott McClellan, Bush, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, White House, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, administration, Rove, Libby, vice President, the President, the President, McClellan, Libby, Rove, Bush, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, the president, Libby, Libby, the president, Libby, Rove, Cheney, Bush, Libby, Rove, Richard Armitage, Ari Fleischer, Cheney, Libby, Cheney, Libby, Cheney, White House, Libby, Rove, Bush, Rove, vice president, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, Bush, vice president, Cheney, Libby, Rove, Fleischer, the president, vice president, Bush, Cheney, the President, the President
1D=, 24R=
A Telling Nonendorsement of Giuliani
20 November 2007
1027 0 11R+: Tom Kean, John McCain, Giuliani, Kean, Kean, John McCain, John McCain, Kean, Kean, Giuliani, Tom Kean
11R-: Giuliani, Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Giuliani
6R=
Sheriff Rudy, crime fighter?
16 November 2007
1003 69 2D+: David Dinkins, Dinkins
14R-: Rudy, Giuliani, Rudolph Giuliani, Rudy, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Rudy, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Rudy
7R=
Taking Aim at the Cheney Threat
13 November 2007
947 62 2R+: Condoleezza Rice, the president
12R-: Cheney, vice president, Vice President Dick Cheney, vice president, vice presidential, President George W. Bush, Vice President Cheney, the president, vice president, White House, vice president, vice president
2R=
Rudy's new best friend
9 November 2007
1125 61 1R+: President Bush
12R-: Rudy, Giuliani, Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani, Rudy, Giuliani, Giuliani, Robertson, Giuliani, Giuliani, Rudy, Giuliani
5R=
Phony Dem Debate Over Social Security
6 November 2007
968 31 16D-: Dem, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Democrats, John Edwards, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Clinton, Democrat, Obama, Edwards, Democrats
7R-: Republican Party, Bush administration, President Bush, White House, The President, the president, Bush
5D=
Rudy's bogus healthcare stats
2 November 2007
1024 63 1D+: Hillary Clinton
2R+: Giuliani, Republican
11R-: Rudy, Giuliani, Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Rudy
1D=, 1R=
Rudy's Glass House
30 October 2007
1051 71 5D+: President Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Democratic, Clinton
1D-: Clinton administration
13R-: Rudy, Rudolph Giuliani, Republican, President Bush, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, Republican, Giuliani, Giuliani
1D=, 4R=
When Rudy goes waterboarding
26 October 2007
1036 38 3D+: Sheldon Whitehouse, D-, Democrats
4R+: Giuliani, Republican, Republican, Republicans
9R-: Rudy, Giuliani, Mukasey, Mukasey, Giuliani, Mukasey, Giuliani, Rudy, Giuliani
5R=
Hillary Clinton Would Rethink Bush Power Grab
23 October 2007
1062 75 3D+: Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Clinton
1R+: John McCain
22R-: Bush, presidency, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, administration, Michael Mukasey, the president, Mukasey, Mukasey, Bush, Cheney, Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Bush, presidency, Republicans, Bush, Cheney
5D=, 1R=
Nuclear hypocrisy
19 October 2007
1157 73 1R+: the president
12R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, the president, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney
2R=
Where's the Outrage for Stevens?
16 October 2007
1041 68 2R+: John Ensign, Republican Senate
21R-: Stevens, Republican, Larry Craig, Republican, Ted Stevens, Craig, Stevens, Craig, Stevens, Craig, Stevens, Craig, Craig, Craig, Stevens, Stevens, Republican, Stevens, Stevens, Stevens, Stevens
1D=, 4R=
"Seven countries in five years"
12 October 2007
1040 64 6D+: Wesley Clark, Wesley Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark
1R+: Wolfowitz
11R-: Bush administration, Bush White House, Donald Rumsfeld, administration, Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, President Bush, administration
3D=, 4R=
Right-Wing Health Care Mythology
9 October 2007
946 86 1D+: Democratic
5R-: Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Republican, the president, Republican
1R=
James Dobson's Rudy problem
5 October 2007
1211 20 1D+: Clinton
2D-: Hillary Clinton, Clinton
4R+: Giuliani, Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, Giuliani
13R-: Republican, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Republicans, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Republican, Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party
3D=, 17R=
Limbaugh's Cowardly Smear
2 October 2007
999 79 5D+: John Kerry, Tom Daschle, Democrats, Daschle, Kerry
2R+: Limbaugh, Limbaugh
12R-: Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Bush White House, Limbaugh, Republican, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh
The war president "at peace" with himself
28 September 2007
1073 76 19R-: president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush, presidency
6R=
The Right Way to Deal With Iran
25 September 2007
952 100 5R-: Bush White House, White House, Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney, Jon Kyl
Taser nation
21 September 2007
1005 54 1D+: Kerry
3R+: Bush, Rove, Bush
15R-: Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush White House, Bush, the president, the president, vice president, Bush White House, White House, the president, Bush administration, Bush, Bush Republicans, Bush
2D=, 3R=
Dominant Hillary Scares Enemies
18 September 2007
1022 36 9D+: Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Hillarycare, Democratic, Harry S. Truman
1D-: Democratic
2R+: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mitt Romney
4R-: Republican, Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, Republican
12D=
Will Bush dare to nominate Ted Olson as attorney general?
14 September 2007
1346 92 9D+: Clinton presidency, Peter Rodino, Democrats, Clinton, Democrats, Senate Democrats, Patrick Leahy, D-, Harry Reid
1R+: Edwin Meese III
52R-: Bush, Ted Olson, the president, George W. Bush, White House, Theodore B. Olson, Bush, Ted Olson, Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush, the president, Olson, Gonzales, Gonzales, Karl Rove, Olson, Republican, Bush, Gonzales, Republican, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, Gonzales, Bush administration, Olson, Reagan administration, Olson, Republican, Reagan White House, Olson, Bush, Cheney, Olson, Gonzales, Bush administration, Olson, Olson, Olson, Bush, Olson, Bush, Olson, Olson, Republican, Olson, Olson, Bush, Bush, Olson, president
2D=, 1R=
Don't believe the surge hype
7 September 2007
1030 83 5R-: President Bush, Bush administration, White House, Bush administration, White House
1R=
Bush's Magic Benchmarks
4 September 2007
890 100 1D+: Nancy Pelosi
7R-: Bush, Bush Administration, White House, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the president, Republicans
The GOP's crowded closet
31 August 2007
1440 95 1D+: Democrats
39R-: GOP, Republicans, Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, Republicans, Republican Party, Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Craig, Joe McCarthy, the Reagans, Republicans, Arthur Finkelstein, Republican, Republican, Finkelstein, Republican, Ed Schrock, Republican, Republican, Mark Foley, Republican, Republicans, Foley, Foley, Republican Congress, Republican, George W. Bush, Bush, White House, Schrock, Larry Craig, Craig, Craig, Craig, Republican, Republican, Young Republican, Republicans
2R=
Reality: America Isn't Conservative
21 August 2007
962 70 2D+: Democrats, Al Gore
10R-: Karl Rove, Republican, Bush administration, G.O.P. , George W. Bush, The president, Bush, Republican, Republican, Bush
5R=
Giuliani's dangerous bluster
17 August 2007
1093 67 12R-: Giuliani, Giuliani, Rudolph Giuliani, George W. Bush, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, John McCain, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani
6R=
The Twisted Legacy of Rove
14 August 2007
1074 59 5D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrat, Democrats
4R+: Republicans, the President, Republican Party, President Bush
18R-: Rove, Karl Rove, White House, Republican, Rove, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush White House, Republican, Rove, Republicans, Republican, White House, Republican, Rove, Rove, Bush administration, Rove
1D=, 4R=
If you think they hate us now
10 August 2007
1034 47 2D-: Democratic, Democratic
1R+: the president
18R-: Republican, George W. Bush, Republican, president, Republican, GOP, the president, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Bush White House, Giuliani, Republican, Giuliani, Giuliani, Romney, Republican
2D=, 9R=
GOP Tries Big Health-Care Scare
7 August 2007
1001 37 2D+: Democrats, Democratic
4D-: HillaryCare, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards
10R-: Republican, Mitt Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, Romney, Giuliani, Bush administration, Republican, Romney, Giuliani, Romney
6R=
Bush's non-exit exit strategy
3 August 2007
982 50 4R-: Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration
4R=
Gonzales Must Be Impeached
31 July 2007
1036 55 7D+: Jay Inslee, D-, Inslee, Russ Feingold, Democrat, Feingold, Democratic
1D-: Democratic
2R+: Gonzales, Republicans
18R-: Gonzales, Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales, the president, Republicans, Republicans, White House, George W. Bush, president, administration, Gonzales, White House, Gonzales, White House, Bush administration, White House, Gonzales, Gonzales
2D=, 10R=
Ginning up a fight between Clinton and Obama
27 July 2007
1027 45 11D+: Democrats, Obama, Clinton, Obama, Clinton, Obama, Obama, Clinton, Obama, Obama, Bill Clinton
3D-: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Obama
5R-: Bush, Cheney, Bush administration, Bush administration, George Herbert Walker Bush
10D=
Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers
20 July 2007
1232 59 5D+: Democrats, Democratic, John Kerry, Democrats, Kerry
18R-: Rudy, Romney, Republicans, Republican, GOP, Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Giuliani, Rudy, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney
1D=, 15R=
Bush Wins by Copying Clinton
17 July 2007
1054 77 8D+: Clinton, Clinton, Clinton administration, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton administration, Clinton
1R+: Colin Powell
17R-: the president, Bush, Bush White House, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush administration, Bush administration, Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush administration, Bush White House, Bushies, the president, vice president, Bush White House, Bush, Bush
5R=
It's finally time for Bush to answer questions about Libby
13 July 2007
1616 81 61R-: Bush, Libby, Bush, Cheney, White House, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the president, The president, White House, Bush, Libby, Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, McClellan, Bush, president, Libby, Richard Armitage, Ari Fleischer, Karl Rove, Rove, the president, Rove, Vice President Cheney, Libby, Cheney, Libby, Cheney, McClellan, Libby, Cheney, White House, Libby, Rove, Bush, Rove, vice president, Cheney, Bush, the president, Cheney, vice president, Libby, the president, Libby, White House, vice president, Cheney, Libby, Rove, Fleischer, Libby, the president, vice president, the president, vice president, Bush, Cheney, White House, White House, the president
14R=
Holier Than Whom, Exactly?
10 July 2007
994 90 11D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Democrats, the Clintons, Obama, the Clintons, Obama, Clinton, Obama, Democrats, Democrats
6R-: Republican, Republican, Ralph Reed, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter, R-
2D=
GOP hawks' sudden conversion
9 July 2007
1257 36 3D+: Democrat, Ken Salazar, Lee Hamilton
2D-: Democrats, Democrats
1R+: James Baker III
13R-: GOP, Bush, Republicans, Bush administration, John McCain, President Bush, Domenici, Republican, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration
3D=, 14R=
Rudy can fail
29 June 2007
1324 61 13D+: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, President Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Gary Hart, Clinton
4D-: former president, President Clinton, Democratic, Democrats
3R+: James Baker III, Giuliani, Warren Rudman
22R-: Rudy, Giuliani, Rudolph Giuliani, Republican, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Republicans, Senate Republicans, John McCain, Republicans, Bush administration, Giuliani, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Giuliani, Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Giuliani
1D=, 3R=
Centrists Finally Give Up on Iraq
26 June 2007
1022 36 1D-: Congressional Democrats
2R+: Condoleezza Rice, Bush administration
12R-: administration, President Bush, White House, Republican, Republican, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Bush administration, Republicans
2D=, 8R=
Hillary Clinton's labor problem
16 June 2007
1362 74 23D-: Hillary Clinton, Democratic, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Penn, Clinton, Penn, Penn, Penn, Clinton, Penn, Democratic Leadership Council, DLC, Clinton, Penn, Clinton, Penn, Clinton, Penn, Penn, Clinton, Penn, Clinton
6D=, 2R=
Rudy's scary tax tales
6 June 2007
922 78 4D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Clinton, President Clinton, Clinton
1R+: Michael Bloomberg
15R-: Rudy, Republican, Giuliani, Republicans, Bush administration, Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, Republican, Reagan, Giuliani, George W. Bush, Reaganite, Giuliani, Republicans, Giuliani
3R=
Will the real Hillary please stand up?
4 June 2007
2228 44 18D+: Hillary Clinton, former first lady, presidency, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Clintons, the Clintons, the Clintons, Hillary, Clinton White House, Clinton, Bill and Hillary, Franklin and Eleanor, the Clintons, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Carl Levin, Bill and Hillary Clinton
2D-: Clinton, Clinton
1R+: Republicans
13R-: Rudolph Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, Republican, Alfonse D'Amato, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Henry Hyde, Republican, Starr, President Bush, White House, Bush
26D=, 4R=
Dithering Democrats
25 May 2007
1150 2 2D+: Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan
11D-: Democrats, congressional Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats
2R+: Edwin Meese, Robert Gates
10R-: Bush administration, the president, Bush administration, the president, administration, James Baker III, George W. Bush, the president, Bush, Republicans
1D=, 10R=
Edwards' insensitive move
18 May 2007
980 20 5D+: Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Democratic, Gen. Wesley Clark
5D-: Edwards, Democratic, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
1R+: Republican
5R-: President Bush, Bush administration, the president, Bush administration, Republicans
3D=, 2R=
Beware the promises of Murdoch
16 May 2007
951 75 3D-: Jimmy Carter, President, Carter
1D=
Poor, poor Gonzales
11 May 2007
1154 54 3D+: John Conyers, Conyers, Democrats
20R-: Gonzales, Republicans, Alberto Gonzales, Republicans, Gonzales, Gonzales, Specter, Coburn, Republicans, Ric Keller, R-, Keller, Republican, Keller, Republican, Randy Forbes, R-, Forbes, Gonzales, Karl Rove
3D=, 17R=
G.O.P. tall tales about Reagan
9 May 2007
1022 59 1D+: Democratic President
3R+: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Presidency
21R-: G.O.P. , Republicans, G.O.P. , Reagan, Giuliani, Republican, Reagan, administration, Giuliani, Reagan, Reagan, President, Reagan administration, Reagan, White House, Reagan, White House, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Republicans
7R=
Condi Rice never looks back
4 May 2007
1516 70 1D+: Nancy Pelosi
2R+: Rice, Condi
24R-: Condi Rice, Condoleezza Rice, Bush administration, Rice, Rice, Dubya, Rice, Rice, Rice, Republican Party, Reagan, Rice, Condi, Rice, Rice, Bush administration, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, the president, Rice, Bush, Rice, Rice
6R=
Tenet shares in the shame
2 May 2007
1031 77 17R-: Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Richard Perle, White House, White House, Cheney, Rice, White House, White House, White House, Powell, the President, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, the President
5R=
A new low for Giuliani
27 April 2007
1364 77 4D+: Democrat, Democrats, Clinton administration, Bill Clinton
1R+: Republican
34R-: Giuliani, Republican, Bush administration, Giuliani, Rove, Republicans, Republicans, Giuliani, Rovian, Giuliani, Bush administration, Republican, Giuliani, Republicans, Bush, the president, Giuliani, President Bush, Republican administration, Giuliani, Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Kerik, Giuliani, Kerik, Kerik, Bush, White House, Giuliani, Kerik, Bush
3D=, 6R=
Putting the worst face on things
26 April 2007
924 89 17R-: Bush administration, the President, Paul Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Republican, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Elizabeth Cheney, Vice President, Wolfowitz, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House, administration, Bush administration
2R=
A Gonzales resignation is not enough
20 April 2007
1023 92 2D+: Charles Schumer, Democratic
1R+: Republican
21R-: Gonzales, Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, the president, Gonzales, Bush administration, Gonzales, Gonzales, White House, White House, Gonzales, White House, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush administration, White House, Karl Rove, administration, Nixonian
A selective view of fraud
18 April 2007
1057 92 4D+: Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic
28R-: Alberto Gonzales, Bush White House, Karl Rove, the President, Republican, Rove, Republican, Republicans, Rove, President Bush, White House, Republican, Republican National Committee, G.O.P., Republican, Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Republican, Karl Rove, G.O.P. , Republican, John Sununu, Republicans, Republican, White House, Republican, Republican, the President
2D=, 1R=
No more whining excuses
13 April 2007
777 50 2D-: Sharpton, Sharpton
2D=
A dubious kind of leadership
11 April 2007
1051 56 3R+: Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani
18R-: President Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Giuliani, Kerik, Kerik, Kerik, Kerik, Giuliani, Kerik, Giuliani, Kerik, Kerik, Kerik, Giuliani, Kerik
6R=
To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi
6 April 2007
964 13 12D+: Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Democratic, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi
14R+: Frank Wolf, Republican, GOP, Darrell Issa, Republican, Wolf, Robert Aderholt, R-, Joseph Pitts, R-, Issa, Wolf, Wolf, James Baker
7R-: Bush administration, Bush White House, White House, Bush administration, White House, Bush, White House
1D=
McCain's Potemkin Village
4 April 2007
1027 64 1D+: Democrats
1R+: McCain
18R-: McCain, John McCain, McCain, Mike Pence, Republican, McCain, McCain, Graham, Pence, McCain, Pence, Pence, Pence, Graham, Pence, McCain, the President, McCain
2D=, 6R=
See no Karl, hear no Karl
30 March 2007
1010 93 3D+: Democrats, Henry Waxman, D-
24R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, White House, Alberto Gonzales, GOP, Republican, White House, Scooter Libby, White House, Bush, Karl Rove, White House, Republicans, Republicans, Republican, Rove, Gonzales, Gonzales, Rove, Rove, Rove, Bush, Scooter Libby, Gonzales
2R=
If D.C. pundits say 'stop,' go
28 March 2007
1121 58 4D+: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, President Clinton
1D-: Democrats
20R-: Bush administration, White House, White House, Karl Rove, Republican administration, President Bush, Alberto Gonzales, White House, White House, Gonzales, executive branch, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Presidency, White House, Rove, Rove, the President, the President, Gonzales, Republican Party
10D=, 5R=
Rove, proven liar
23 March 2007
1018 90 1R+: Snow
27R-: Rove, President Bush, Karl Rove, Rove, Karl Rove, Bush White House, Tony Snow, Dan Bartlett, Rove, Snow, White House, the president, Snow, Rove, Rove, Rove, Scott McClellan, White House, the president, Rove, Rove, Rove, The president, Rove, Snow, White House, Rove
1R=
Bush fantasy, Obama reality
22 March 2007
1032 59 5D+: Obama, Barack Obama, D-, Obama, Obama
2R+: the President, the President
6R-: Bush, George W. Bush, the President, Bush, the President, Bush
2R=
Blame Bill
16 March 2007
1142 24 14D+: Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Eric Holder, Democratic, President Clinton, Janet Reno, Clinton, Clinton
11D-: Dan Rostenkowski, Democrat, Rostenkowksi, Democrats, Rostenkowksi, Rostenkowski, Democrats, Mel Reynolds, D-, Walter Tucker, D-
1R+: Republicans
11R-: Republicans, Bush administration, Republicans, Alberto Gonzales, George W. Bush, Republicans, the president, Republicans, Bush, Gonzales, Karl Rove
8D=, 9R=
An awful legacy of Bush 41
15 March 2007
1139 68 6D+: Bill Clinton, the Clintons, Clintons, the Clintons, President Clinton, Democratic
3R+: Republican, Republican, Republican
20R-: Bush 41, Bush, White House, the President, White House, President Bush, President George H.W. Bush, Republican, Bush White House, the President, Bush cabinet, William Barr, Barr, the President, C. Boyden Gray, Barr, President Bush, White House, Karl Rove, George W. Bush
3D=, 2R=
Alberto Gonzales must go
12 March 2007
1232 38 4D+: Russ Feingold, Democrat, Feingold, Feingold
7R+: the president, Ensign, Ensign, Ensign, Ensign, Arlen Specter, R-
23R-: Alberto Gonzales, the president, Alberto Gonzales, GOP, Pete Domenici, Domenici, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Republican, Bush White House, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, White House, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, president, Bush administration, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales
18R=
A partisan purge too far
9 March 2007
1016 91 20R-: Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Randy (Duke) Cunningham, Republican, Cunningham, Cunningham, Republican, Rick Renzi, R-, Karl Rove, Republican, Pete Domenici, Heather Wilson, Domenici, Domenici, Gonzales, Gonzales, administration, Bush administration
2D=
Why do journalists suddenly love Al Gore?
2 March 2007
937 77 11D+: Al Gore, Al Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, former vice president, Gore, Gore, Gore
2R-: Bush, Bush
4D=
The last throes of Cheney's credibility
28 February 2007
1091 75 3D+: Democrats, Pelosi, Murtha
20R-: Cheney, the President, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, White House, Bush, Cheney, Vice President, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Bush administration, Vice President, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, Cheney, Vice President, Bush, Bush White House
7D=, 1R=
Time for regime change for American workers
23 February 2007
1035 50 1D+: Democratic
2R-: Republican, the president
3R=
Right-wingers repent, but not The Times
22 February 2007
1059 59 15D+: Hillary Clinton, the Clintons, Clinton, Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, the Clintons, President and Mrs. Clinton, the Clintons, the Clintons, Clinton White House, Hillary, Clinton, John Kerry, Clinton, Clinton
1D-: Clinton
5R-: Scaife, Scaife, Scaife, Scaife, Scaife
8D=, 3R=
It could happen here
19 February 2007
2248 50 2D+: Clinton administration, Democrats
2D-: president, Senate Democrats
5R+: Republican, Bob Barr, Barr, Reagan, Reagan
29R-: Richard M. Nixon, Richard M. Nixon, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, the president, Republican, Bush administration, Republican Party, administration, administration, Republican, the president, White House, Bush administration, Republican, Republican Party, Republican, Republican, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush White House, the president, administration, Republican, White House, Bush administration, George W. Bush
5D=, 5R=
The press's warped priorities
16 February 2007
1083 82 2D+: Frank Lautenberg, D-
12R-: Dick Cheney, vice president, Mary Cheney, vice president, Liz Cheney, Bush administration, President Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, White House, Cheney, Cheney
3R=
Time for Hillary to make amends
14 February 2007
1021 1 1D+: Barack Obama
4D-: Hillary, Clinton, Obama, John Kerry
3R-: Republican, President Bush, the President
9D=, 2R=
Alberto Gonzalez's coup d'etat
9 February 2007
1124 81 1D+: Senate Democrats
20R-: Bush administration, White House, Arlen Specter, White House, Specter, Specter, Bush White House, Specter, Republican, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Cunningham, Bush, Republican, Karl Rove, Republican, Rick Renzi, Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush administration, Republican
3D=, 2R=
Bush and Cheney must come clean
7 February 2007
1163 93 52R-: Bush, Cheney, Bush administration, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, White House, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the President, Vice President, Scooter, Bush, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, the President, administration, Bush White House, Karl Rove, White House, Rove, Libby, Ari Fleischer, Libby, Vice President, Bush White House, the President, Vice President, Cheney, McClellan, Libby, Cheney, White House, Libby, Rove, Vice President, Cheney, Bush, the President, Vice President, Bush, Cheney, the President, Libby, White House, the President, Vice President, Cheney, Libby, Rove, Fleischer, Bush, Cheney
4R=
Molly lives
2 February 2007
903 50 2R-: Dubya, Republican
2R=
The next disaster
31 January 2007
929 100 14R-: George W. Bush, the President, Bush administration, White House, The President, The President, The President, The President, the President, Bush administration, White House, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush administration, President Bush
Ghosts of dirty tricks past
26 January 2007
1255 92 26D+: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barry Obama, Obama, Clinton, Clinton, Democratic, Democrat, Democratic, Democrats, Edmund Muskie, John Lindsay, Muskie, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Ed Muskie, Muskie, Jackson, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jackson, Humphrey, Democrats, Clinton, Obama, Obama
21R-: E. Howard Hunt, President Nixon, Hunt, Nixon, Rush Limbaugh, Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Donald Segretti, Lucianne Goldberg, Nixon, Goldberg, Segretti, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon, Hunt, Goldberg, Tricky Dick, Roger Ailes, Nixon, Nixon
4D=
Cynical speech highlights sad state of the union
24 January 2007
922 72 10R-: George W. Bush, Nixonian, Bush, President, administration, Bush, the President, Bush, President, White House
1D=, 3R=
Enough with the new bipartisanship
19 January 2007
1349 2 3D+: Lockhart, Democrats, Democratic
7D-: Democrats, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Rafshoon, Hamilton Jordan, Dean, Rafshoon, Jordan
1R+: Bailey
4R-: Republicans, Republicans, Republican, Tom Coburn
13D=, 11R=
The fine line between our friends and enemies
17 January 2007
949 43 2D+: Lee Hamilton, Hamilton
2R+: James Baker III, Baker
6R-: Bush administration, the President, Bush, President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Bush
1D=, 3R=
Maria's hope
12 January 2007
926 14 1D+: Democratic
2D-: Democratic Party, Democratic
4D=
When Bush asks, Democrats must say no
11 January 2007
1018 88 2D+: Edward Kennedy, Kennedy
1D-: Congressional Democrats
20R-: Bush, George W. Bush, President, Bush, John McCain, R.-, the President, the President, Bush, the President, the President, the President, White House, Bush, administration, the President, Bush, Bush, Republican, the President
1D=
No reason to make nice
5 January 2007
1031 78 16D+: Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Pelosi, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic
1R+: Republicans
13R-: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, George W. Bush, Bush, Republican National Committee, Republican, White House, Republicans, Republicans, Republican Party, president, Republicans
2D=, 4R=
Saddam's kind of justice, but in America's name
3 January 2007
936 100 10R-: Bush administration, The President, Bush, the President, Alberto Gonzales, Republican, Bush administration, Bush administration, Reagan administration, Bush