lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Mark Steyn
Chicago Sun-Times

Columns 47
Words 63066
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 33.33
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 34.16
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 33.74
Democratic Index -63.04
Republican Index 9.38
Positive Index 21.81
Negative Index 46.71
Neutral Index 31.48



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 11 Pelosi(2), Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Webb, Truman, Democratic, Pete Stark, Barack Obama, Clinton, Edwards
Negative Democratic 156 Democrats(14), Al(14), Hillary(13), Barack Obama(9), Gore(7), Democrat(6), John Edwards(6), Al Gore(6), John Kerry(5), Democratic(5), Patrick(5), Dems(4), Obama(4), Edwards(4), Reid(4), Pelosi(3), Nancy Pelosi(3), Jimmy Carter(3), Harry Reid(3), Deval Patrick(3), Bill Clinton(3), Stark(3), Clinton(3), Hillary Rodham Clinton(2), Barack(2), Murtha(2), Al Sharpton(2), Democratic Party(2), President Clinton(2), Kerry, Tipper, former vice president, Al from, Soros, Kerrys, Pete Stark, presidency, Kerryesque, Carter, Feingold, Democratic Senate, Dem, White House
Neutral Democratic 63Democrats(6), Pelosi(4), Democrat(4), Al Gore(4), Nancy Pelosi(3), Kennedy(3), Bill Clinton(3), Hillary(3), Clinton(3), Democratic(2), Murtha(2), George Soros(2), Patrick(2), Obama(2), Elizabeth Edwards(2), Barbara Boxer, Boxer, Ann Richards, Rosa DeLauro, Richards, Kerry, Dianne Feinstein, John Kerry, former vice president, Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt, JFK, Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Saddam Clinton, Barry Obama, Biden, Truman, Dennis Kucinich
Positive Republican 95 Bush(20), Cheney(7), Reagan(6), Bush administration(4), the president(4), Republicans(3), George W. Bush(3), Rove(3), White House(3), Dick Cheney(3), Libby(2), Scooter Libby(2), administration(2), Ronald Reagan(2), President Bush(2), The president(2), Rumsfeld(2), GOP(2), Mitt Romney(2), Hastert, Republican, Vice President George H. W. Bush, vice president, Reaganite, Colin Powell, Lotthorn, Henry Kissinger, McCain, Donald Rumsfeld, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Dole, President Reagan, the Gipper, John Negroponte, Republicanism, Fred Thompson, Thompson, Romney, Bushitler
Negative Republican 71 Craig(8), Republicans(5), R-(5), the president(3), Richard Armitage(3), Armitage(3), Bloomberg(3), administration(3), GOP(2), Colin Powell(2), John McCain(2), Lindsay Graham(2), Schwarzenegger(2), Trenthorn Lotthorn(2), Mark Foley, Republican, Olympia Snowe, George W. Bush, Trent Lott, Michael Bloomberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lotthorn, George Voinovich, Arlen Specter, Bush, Thomas Kean, Henry Kissinger, John Warner, President Nixon, Larry Craig, President Bush, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, Romney, George bloody Bush, McCain, Bush administration, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee
Neutral Republican 90Republican(11), the president(7), Bush(7), Republicans(5), President Bush(4), White House(3), administration(3), Mitt Romney(3), John McCain(3), GOP(3), McCain(2), Larry Craig(2), Pat Buchanan(2), Fred Thompson(2), Reagan(2), George W. Bush(2), Rudy Giuliani(2), Giuliani(2), Dennis Hastert, Condoleezza Rice, vice president, Scooter Libby, James Baker, Baker, Bloomberg, Schwarzenegger, John Ashcroft, Trent Lott, Lott, George W Bush, the President, Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Thompson, Dana Rohrabacher, Dan Burton, R-, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Romney, Mitt, Huckabee



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 ‘cold civil war’ in the U.S.
24 December 2007
1734 33 2D-: Dems, Democrats
3R+: Bushitler, Bush, Republicans
4D=, 6R=
Took a lickin' and kept on tickin'
17 December 2007
1723 0
Let's have a free market for housing and religion
10 December 2007
1357 11 2D-: Democrats, Democrats
6R+: Bush, Fred Thompson, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Romney, Mitt Romney
6R-: Bush administration, administration, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Republicans
3R=
‘No offense’ is no defense
3 December 2007
1313 0
Diversity? Dems have got a woman, a black, a Hispanic and a preening metrosexual — and they all think exactly the same
26 November 2007
1499 37 3D+: Barack Obama, Clinton, Edwards
23D-: Dems, Feingold, Democratic, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, Barack, Democrats, John Edwards, Edwards, Democratic Senate, Edwards, Democrat, Democrat, John Edwards, Dem, Democratic Party, Hillary, Clinton, Hillary, Clinton, White House, Hillary
5R+: GOP, Republicanism, GOP, George W. Bush, Bush
2R-: GOP, McCain
8D=, 21R=
World should give thanks for America
19 November 2007
1248 33 2R+: Bush, Cheney
1R-: George bloody Bush
Musharraf shooting without a script
12 November 2007
1293 33 2R+: Dick Cheney, John Negroponte
4R=
Let's hear it for laconic leadership: A history of presidential energies
5 November 2007
1407 56 8D-: presidency, Jimmy Carter, Kerryesque, Carter, Bill Clinton, President Clinton, Clinton, President Clinton
6R+: President Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, the Gipper, Reagan
1R-: Romney
2D=, 6R=
You've seen the movie, now don't buy the war
29 October 2007
1407 20 4R+: Cheney, Dick Cheney, Cheney, Bob Dole
1R-: Dick Cheney
4D=, 6R=
The real war on children
22 October 2007
1406 33 2D+: Democratic, Pete Stark
6D-: Stark, Stark, Stark, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat, Pete Stark
4R+: President Bush, Bush, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh
2R-: Republicans, the president
1D=, 3R=
Time for the U.S. to get comfortable with ideology
15 October 2007
1357 29 1D+: Truman
1D-: Democrats
1R+: Reagan
3R-: administration, President Bush, Condi Rice
1D=
Princess Diana's murder and Islamoparanoia
8 October 2007
1328 29 2D-: Barack Obama, Democratic
5D=
Democracies talk, tyrannies act
1 October 2007
1351 100 1D-: Bill Clinton
3R+: Donald Rumsfeld, Bush administration, Rumsfeld
Bend over for Nurse Hillary
24 September 2007
1330 79 7D-: Hillary, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, Bill Clinton, Hillary
1R+: Bush
2R=
Looking for love in all the wrong places
17 September 2007
1325 83 9D-: Deval Patrick, John Kerry, Patrick, Patrick, Patrick, Patrick, Deval Patrick, Patrick, Deval Patrick
1R+: the president
2D=
No terrorism, just war?
10 September 2007
1375 34 7R+: President Bush, administration, The president, Dick Cheney, The president, Rumsfeld, Bush
2R-: Larry Craig, Craig
4D=, 2R=
There were two creeps in the men's room
4 September 2007
1374 30 1D+: Webb
1D-: Democrats
2R+: Henry Kissinger, McCain
8R-: Craig, Craig, Craig, President Nixon, Craig, Craig, Craig, Craig
8R=
They wait for us to run again
27 August 2007
1367 44 2D-: Jimmy Carter, Kerrys
4R+: George W. Bush, the president, Bush, Bush
2R-: Henry Kissinger, John Warner
1R=
Speaking of sanctuary, where's ours?
20 August 2007
1289 0
Believing the worst ...but only of ourselves
13 August 2007
1306 33 1D-: Al Gore
2D=
The vanishing jihad exposés
6 August 2007
1362 33 1R-: Thomas Kean
2R=
Look who's holding hostages again
23 July 2007
1255 16 2D-: Democratic Party, Soros
1R-: Bush
2D=, 1R=
The jobs Britons won't do
9 July 2007
1247 0 1R=
Impudent citizens got Sen. Lotthorn's goat
2 July 2007
1319 20 8D-: Democrats, Harry Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Harry Reid, John Edwards, Edwards
1R+: Lotthorn
13R-: Lotthorn, Lindsay Graham, R-, George Voinovich, R-, Trenthorn Lotthorn, R-, Trenthorn Lotthorn, the president, John McCain, R-, Arlen Specter, R-
We've replaced Rushdie in hiding
25 June 2007
1226 100 2R+: Bush, Rove
The incessant action hero
18 June 2007
1403 80 8R-: Michael Bloomberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bloomberg, Schwarzenegger, Bloomberg, Schwarzenegger, administration, Bloomberg
2R=
A lame joke becomes reality
11 June 2007
950 1 1D+: Harry Reid
2D-: Democrat, Reid
1R+: Colin Powell
2R-: Trent Lott, Lindsay Graham
So much news, so little sense
29 May 2007
1291 100 1R-: George W. Bush
Capitulation, from A——— to Z
21 May 2007
1186 50 1R-: John McCain
1R=
Fortress America's gate is open
14 May 2007
1318 0 2R=
Will Sarkozy have the shortest of honeymoons?
8 May 2007
1407 100 4R+: Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reaganite, Reagan
Light bulbs that don't signify ideas
30 April 2007
1234 63 3D-: Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Obama
4R+: Bush, Cheney, Bush administration, Bush
1D=, 3R=
Let's get realistic about reality
23 April 2007
1230 50 1D-: Obama
1D=
Imus go down to the idiocy again
16 April 2007
1323 100 3D-: Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Al Sharpton
Resolve real crises through pseudo-institutions?
2 April 2007
1236 100 1D-: Jimmy Carter
Musharraf caught in a sticky wicket
26 March 2007
1210 0 1R=
Victor Victorians. A lesson in real morality
19 March 2007
1199 0
Perverse Libby trial was revealing
12 March 2007
1445 33 19R+: Libby, Scooter Libby, Bush, Rove, Cheney, vice president, White House, Bush, Libby, Rove, Cheney, Bush, Scooter Libby, administration, White House, Bush, Cheney, White House, Bush
8R-: Richard Armitage, Colin Powell, Armitage, Armitage, Richard Armitage, Richard Armitage, Armitage, Colin Powell
2D=, 4R=
How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world
5 March 2007
1429 93 25D-: Gore, Gore, Tipper, Al, Al, Gore, Al, Al, Al, Al, former vice president, Gore, Al, Al from, Al, Al, Al, Al, Al Gore, Al, Al, Al, Gore, Gore, Gore
1R+: George W. Bush
2D=
Patent case of no Yankee ingenuity
26 February 2007
1407 75 2D-: Obama, Edwards
1R+: Bush
1D=
Why the Iraq war is turning into America's defeat
19 February 2007
1313 40 4D-: Murtha, Democrats, Murtha, Democrats
3R+: the president, Republicans, Bush
1R-: Republicans
5D=, 2R=
Don't ruin economy over tiny temp rise
11 February 2007
1369 100 2D-: John Kerry, Al Gore
What's so hot about fickle science?
4 February 2007
1384 75 3D-: Al Gore, Al Gore, John Edwards
1D=
Old U.S.S.R. made Old Europe look new
28 January 2007
1376 61 12D-: Barack Obama, John Kerry, John Edwards, Kerry, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Democratic, Nancy Pelosi, Dems, John Kerry, Democrat, Democratic
3R+: Vice President George H. W. Bush, the president, Bush
2R-: the president, Republicans
1D=, 3R=
Media are gonna Barack around the clock
21 January 2007
1354 62 17D-: Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary, John Kerry, Democratic, Barack, Obama, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Hillary
3R-: Republican, Olympia Snowe, Republicans
2R=
Pelosi a rare example of a woman who 'has it all'
14 January 2007
1459 18 3D+: Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi
6D-: Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrat, Democrats, Dems
5R+: Bush administration, Republicans, Bush administration, Hastert, Republican
2R-: Mark Foley, GOP
14D=, 3R=
Complaints? Where there's wool, there's a way
7 January 2007
1345 0 1R=