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

Columns 53
Words 68641
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 26.10
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 42.93
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 34.52
Democratic Index -78.41
Republican Index 1.47
Positive Index 19.03
Negative Index 56.90
Neutral Index 24.07



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 9 Democrats(2), John F. Kennedy, FDR, Harry Truman, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Democrat, Bill Clinton
Negative Democratic 216 Democrats(28), Kerry(21), Dems(15), Democratic Party(13), Democrat(12), John Kerry(12), Kennedy(9), D-(5), Leahy(4), Pat Leahy(4), Sarbanes(4), Bill Clinton(4), Al Gore(3), Clinton(3), Joe Biden(3), Ted Kennedy(3), Barbara Boxer(3), Murtha(3), Democratic(3), Defeaticrats(3), Senate Democrats(3), Jefferson(3), Howard Dean(2), KERRY(2), Chuck Schumer(2), John Edwards(2), Joe Lieberman(2), Jack Murtha(2), Nancy Pelosi(2), Lee Hamilton(2), Berger(2), Jimmy Carter(2), congressional Democrats, George Wallace, Robert C. Byrd, Dianne Feinstein, democratic, Edward Kennedy, Schultz, Lieberman, Clintonian, Dem, Defeaticrat, William Jefferson, Tip bin Neill, Pelosi, George Mitchell, Mitchell, Hillary, Jim McGreevey, President, Madeleine Albright, Albright, Carter, Rodham, Eugene McCarthy, President Jimmy Carter, President Clinton, Leon Panetta, Bill Perry, Vernon Jordan, Chuck Robb, John F. Kerry, former vice president, Edwards, Sandy Berger, Robert Kennedy Jr.
Neutral Democratic 39Democrat(6), Democrats(3), D-(3), Kerry(2), John Kerry(2), GORE(2), the president, FDR, Leahy, Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ted Kennedy, Pat Leahy, John F. Kennedy, Elizabeth Edwards, Bobby Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Clinton, Gore, Dems, Madeleine Albright, JFK, Ray Nagin, Tom Harkin, Democratic Party, Lyndon Johnson, Hamilton
Positive Republican 93 Bush(33), Arnold(8), Cheney(6), the president(4), President Bush(4), Ronald Reagan(3), GOP(3), Schwarzenegger(2), Karl Rove(2), Republicans(2), Dick Cheney(2), administration(2), Gingrich(2), Reagan(2), Rummy(2), Hastert(2), Donald Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, Rush, Bushitler, White House, Republican Congress, Bush administration, Eisenhower, The president, Bob Dole, Ken Starr, Republican, Condoleezza Rice, John Bolton
Negative Republican 89 Baker(8), Bush(7), James Baker(7), GOP(6), Republicans(5), Republican(5), Mark Foley(4), Hastert(4), McCain(4), administration(3), Oxley(3), Foley(3), the president(3), Cheney(2), Republican Party(2), The president(2), Chuck Hagel(2), Jim Baker(2), Lott, Trent Lott, Jack Abramoff, White House, Hagel, President Bush, McCainiac, J. Dennis Hastert, House Republican, Brent Scowcroft, Congressional Republicans, Republican Congress, Dick DeVos, George W. Bush, John McCain, Alan Simpson, Specter
Neutral Republican 90Bush(16), the president(10), Foley(6), Republican(5), President Bush(5), Baker(3), Republicans(3), Arnold(2), Schwarzenegger(2), Trent Lott(2), GOP(2), administration(2), Jim Baker(2), Bush administration(2), Mark Foley(2), R-(2), Rumsfeld(2), The president(2), Republican Party, BUSH, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Aiken, McCarthy, Colin Powell, Cheney, George Bush Sr., George Bush, White House, J. Dennis Hastert, House Republicans, Ted Stevens, Republican Congress, John McCain, Lincoln Chafee, Rice, Arlen Specter, president, Dick Cheney



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
What we need in New Year is some resolution
31 December 2006
1299 72 5D-: John Edwards, Edwards, Sandy Berger, Berger, Berger
1R-: Republicans
Biggest story of our time: our self-extinction
24 December 2006
1271 0 2R=
And merry Xmas to you all
17 December 2006
1360 0
ISG must stand for, uh, Inane Strategy Guesswork
10 December 2006
1221 70 1R+: John Bolton
8R-: James Baker, Bush, James Baker, Baker, James Baker, Baker, Baker, Baker
1R=
Iraq is just test of will for America
3 December 2006
1396 18 14D-: Clinton, Leon Panetta, Bill Perry, Clinton, Vernon Jordan, Clinton, Chuck Robb, John F. Kerry, Lee Hamilton, Lee Hamilton, John Kerry, Kerry, Democrat, Democrats
11R-: James Baker, Baker, Baker, Republican, Alan Simpson, Baker, Jim Baker, Jim Baker, James Baker, Baker, Republicans
1D=, 4R=
Quartet of ladies shows where we're headed
26 November 2006
1369 36 1D-: Al Gore
2R+: Bush, Condoleezza Rice
1R-: James Baker
2R=
'Free to lose' isn't good philosophy for the right wing
19 November 2006
1224 47 2R+: Bush, Ronald Reagan
9R-: Republican Congress, Republicans, GOP, Dick DeVos, Bush, George W. Bush, the president, GOP, Republican
4R=
U.S. must prove it's a staying power
12 November 206
1406 38 2R+: Bush, Republican
7R-: the president, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, The president, GOP, Congressional Republicans, GOP
4R=
Election season is bad time for slip of the quip
5 November 2006
1398 91 25D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Democratic Party, Kerry, Dems, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Dems, Kerry, Democrats, Eugene McCarthy, Democrat, Democratic Party, President Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry
7R+: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bob Dole, Bush, Ken Starr, President Bush
3D=
Only choice on war is to win or lose it
29 October 2006
1451 72 3D-: Democrats, Rodham, Democrat
14R+: President Bush, Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Bush, Bush, the president, Eisenhower, Bush, The president, Bush, the president, Bush, the president
2R-: Mark Foley, Mark Foley
2R=
Fear of too many babies is hard to bear
22 October 2006
1376 42 1D-: Democrats
2R+: Bush, Bush
1R-: Mark Foley
1R=
An election Foley-equipped with frivolity
15 October 2006
1441 44 7D-: President, Madeleine Albright, Jimmy Carter, Albright, Carter, Democratic Party, Dems
3R+: Hastert, Republican Congress, Bush administration
1R-: Mark Foley
2D=, 9R=
Page scandal makes America look silly
8 October 2006
1440 2 2D+: Democrats, Democrats
5D-: Bill Clinton, Dems, Jim McGreevey, Dems, Democrats
3R+: GOP, Hastert, GOP
6R-: Hastert, Hastert, Foley, Foley, Foley, Republican Party
1D=, 8R=
At Gitmo, detainees get La-Z-Boys, pastries
1 October 2006
1348 26 2D+: Patrick Leahy, Democrat
4D-: Hillary, Leahy, Leahy, Pat Leahy
2R=
U.N. shows why it's incapable of reform
September 24, 2006
1329 55 1D-: Dems
3R+: Bushitler, Bush, Bush
2D=, 1R=
Coverage of 9/11 anniversary was too wimpy
September 17, 2006
1244 89 2D-: Democrats, Dems
7R+: Bush, Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rush Limbaugh, Rush, Bush
1D=
9/11 enemies are still hiding in plain sight
September 10, 2006
1298 0 1D=
Why abduct us? We cede our values for free
September 3, 2006
1280 0
Homeland security can't get over the pump
August 27, 2006
1190 0 1D+: John Kerry
1D-: Kerry
World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle
August 20, 2006
1197 48 7D-: Democrats, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Democrats
2R+: President Bush, administration
2R-: administration, Bush
5R=
Pan-Islamism challenges idea of nation state
August 13, 2006
1193 0
Advocates of 'proportion' are just unbalanced
August 6, 2006
1171 100 1R+: President Bush
Professionalization of war is ghettoization of war
July 30, 2006
1292 0 2R=
Failure to solve Palestinian question empowers Iran
July 23, 2006
1283 100 1D-: Bill Clinton
'Great Men' have grating effect on Mideast
July 16, 2006
1351 13 3D-: Barbara Boxer, George Mitchell, Mitchell
6R-: Chuck Hagel, Hagel, Bush, Cheney, Cheney, Chuck Hagel
1D=, 8R=
Here's a war protest that's hard to stomach
July 9, 2006
1222 100 1D-: John Kerry
4R+: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
Court finds a right to jihad in the Constitution
July 2, 2006
1219 0
U.S. can't 'redeploy' its way out of Iraq
June 25, 2006
1304 100 20D-: John Kerry, Defeaticrat, Jack Murtha, Murtha, Democratic Party, Kerry, John Kerry, Defeaticrats, Kerry, Murtha, Democrats, Kerry, Defeaticrats, Dems, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Pelosi, Kerry, Defeaticrats, Kerry
Nude cyclists are peddling threadbare ideas
June 18, 2006
1377 49 24D-: Democratic Party, Democrats, Dems, Democratic Party, Dems, Democrat, Joe Lieberman, Democratic Party, Jack Murtha, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Lieberman, Democrats, Clintonian, Kerry, Murtha, Kerry, Democratic Party, Democratic Party, Joe Lieberman, Democrats
3R+: Karl Rove, Bush, Bush
6R-: Republicans, GOP, Republican, Bush, Bush, Bush
7D=, 6R=
'Warmongers' have a point: It's a war
June 11, 2006
1203 100 1D-: Tip bin Neill
1R+: Bush
Events at Haditha don't change need for victory
June 4, 2006
1229 62 4D-: Democratic Party, John Edwards, former vice president, Robert Kennedy Jr.
1R+: Bush
3D=
Gingrich revolutionaries turn into arrogant elite
May 28, 2006
1367 4 13D-: Democrat, William Jefferson, Democrat, Democrat, Jefferson, Dem, Democrat, Jefferson, Jefferson, Sarbanes, Sarbanes, Sarbanes, Sarbanes
5R+: Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Gingrich, GOP
19R-: Republican Party, J. Dennis Hastert, GOP, Republicans, Hastert, House Republican, Republican, Republican, John McCain, Hastert, McCain, Oxley, Oxley, Oxley, McCain, Specter, Lott, McCain, Trent Lott
1D=, 1R=
Not just immigration: It's societal transformation
May 21, 2006
1303 27 3R-: President Bush, McCainiac, McCain
8R=
To connect the dots, you have to see the dots
May 14, 2006
1304 25 2D+: FDR, Harry Truman
3D-: Leahy, Pat Leahy, Pat Leahy
2R+: Bush, Cheney
4D=
Moussaoui gets life, the terrorists win
May 7, 2006
1144 50 1R+: Donald Rumsfeld
1R=
Where's the dissent about source of quote?
April 30, 2006
1368 67 1D+: John F. Kennedy
12D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, KERRY, KERRY, Kennedy, Democratic, Kennedy, Democrats, Democrat, Democratic Party, Democrats
1R+: Bush
3D=, 1R=
Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists
April 23, 2006
1318 100 2D-: Al Gore, Al Gore
3R+: Bush, Reagan, Dick Cheney
Policy on Iran nukes seems to be off-target
April 16, 2006
1220 26 1D+: Bill Clinton
2D-: John Kerry, President Clinton
1R=
No easy answers on immigration conundrum
April 9, 2006
1308 50 1R-: The president
1R=
Don't deny that some Muslims are hot for jihad
April 2, 2006
1269 64 3D-: John Kerry, Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter
1R+: Ronald Reagan
1R-: administration
Facing down a culture where they talk like crazies
March 26, 2006
1272 0 4R=
Port decision won't put U.S. in a safe harbor
March 19, 2006
1241 44 2D-: Schultz, Democrats
1R+: Bush
2D=, 2R=
Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims among us
March 12, 2006
1273 0
'Long war' is breaking down into tedium
March 5, 2006
1296 36 3R-: administration, the president, White House
2D=, 3R=
Needing to wake up, West just closes its eyes
February 26, 2006
1237 100 1D-: Bill Clinton
Cheering tidbits lighten otherwise grim week
February 19, 2006
1329 89 2D-: Edward Kennedy, Kennedy
6R+: Dick Cheney, administration, White House, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney
1R=
Toon-deaf Europe is taking the wrong stand
February 12, 2006
1294 0
'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences
February 5, 2006
1269 0
At least Hamas is open about its evil intentions
January 29, 2006
1310 0
Standing small against Iran won't work
January 22, 2006
1235 0
Ham-handed Dems didn't lay a glove on Alito
January 15, 2006
1371 89 35D-: Dems, Senate Democrats, Democrat, Chuck Schumer, Kennedy, Leahy, D-, Democratic Party, George Wallace, Robert C. Byrd, Kennedy, D-, Kennedy, D-, Kennedy, Kennedy, D-, Kennedy, D-, Joe Biden, Senate Democrats, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, Dems, Senate Democrats, Democratic Party, Pat Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, democratic, Democrats, Democrat, Democrats, Dems
3R+: Republicans, Bush, Republicans
1R-: Jack Abramoff
2D=, 1R=
U.S. shouldn't have to do tap dance over bugging
January 8, 2006
1301 81 11D-: Democrat, Barbara Boxer, Howard Dean, congressional Democrats, Democrats, Dems, Democrats, Barbara Boxer, Democrats, Dems, Democrats
2R+: the president, Karl Rove
3D=
Arnold shows Austrian politicians how it's done
January 1, 2006
1230 67 10R+: Arnold, Arnold, Arnold, Arnold, Schwarzenegger, Arnold, Schwarzenegger, Arnold, Arnold, Arnold
5R=