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The absurdity of partisanship
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Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate

Columns 45
Words 40954
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 71.43
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 60.71
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 66.07
Democratic Index -78.87
Republican Index 21.25
Positive Index 12.74
Negative Index 72.36
Neutral Index 14.90



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 26 Obama(5), Democratic(5), Heath Shuler, Kent Conrad, Barack Obama, Democrat, Barney Frank, Democrats, Elijah Cummings, Robert Byrd, President Obama, Barack, McCaskill, Bobby Kennedy, Pelosi, Bobby Rush, Rush, Lisa Jackson
Negative Democratic 556 Obama(143), White House(28), Democrats(27), Democratic(27), President Obama(26), Locke(24), Geithner(15), Barack Obama(14), Pelosi(14), Jefferson(13), Murtha(10), Waters(10), Clinton(9), Obama administration(9), Nancy Pelosi(8), the president(7), administration(6), Huang(6), Michelle Obama(6), John Murtha(5), George Soros(5), Holder(5), Axelrod(5), Obamacare(5), Tim Geithner(4), Vice President Joe Biden(4), Daschle(4), Dodd(4), the Obamas(4), Obama White House(4), Chris Dodd(3), Maxine Waters(3), Barney Frank(3), David Axelrod(3), McCaskill(3), Soros(3), Charlie Rangel(2), House Democrats(2), President Barack Obama(2), Schumer(2), Reid(2), Gary Locke(2), Gore(2), The president(2), Hillary Clinton(2), Rahm Emanuel(2), Hilda Solis(2), Eric Holder(2), Gaspard(2), Democrat(2), HillaryCare, Al Franken, the President, Bill Richardson, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, Robert Gibbs, Bill Clinton, Killefer, Debbie Stabenow, Carl Levin, Harry Reid, Rod Blagojevich, House Democratic, David Obey, Obey, Chuck Schumer, John Edwards, John Huang, Maxine ‘Poison’ Waters, Frank, Democratic administration, Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, Boxer, Durbin, Carter administration, Cleaver, Barbara Lee, Laura Richardson, Bobby Rush, Marcia Fudge, Mel Watt, Mike Honda, Lee, Obamessiah, presidency, Leon Panetta, Janet Napolitano, Lawrence Summers, The Obamas, Mrs. O, president, Larry Summers, Kathleen Sebelius, Solis, Patrick Gaspard, John Kerry, Claire McCaskill, ObamACORN, William "Cold Cash" Jefferson, Loretta and Linda Sanchez, Eliot Spitzer, first lady, Valerie Jarrett, first lady , Democratic Party, Jackson, Al Gore
Neutral Democratic 90Obama(21), Democratic(6), Democrats(5), Barack Obama(3), White House(3), President Obama(3), Geithner(2), President Barack Obama(2), Murtha(2), administration(2), Nelson(2), Locke(2), Nancy Pelosi(2), Cleaver(2), Axelrod(2), Obama administration, Democratic administration, Robert Gibbs, Killefer, Gibbs, Tim Geithner, Chuck Schumer, Schumer, Marcy Kaptur, John Huang, David Axelrod, Pelosi, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Waters, Andrew Cuomo, Jared Polis, Artur Davis, Peter Orszag, Emanuel Cleaver, Rush, first lady , Solis, The president, the president, Charles Schumer, Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Carol Browner, Jan Schakowsky
Positive Republican 80 GOP(15), Palin(11), Republican(9), Republicans(6), Bush(3), Tancredo(3), John Boehner(2), Rush Limbaugh(2), President Bush(2), John Thune(2), Sarah Palin(2), Bush administration(2), McCain(2), John McCain(2), Charles Grassley(2), White House, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush White House, Mark Sanford, House Republicans, Tom Coburn, Jeff Sessions, Judd Gregg, Tom Tancredo, Dick Armey, Willow Palin, Bristol Palin, President George W. Bush, President Reagan, Paul Ryan
Negative Republican 46 GOP(9), Republicans(4), Republican(4), Bush administration(3), Bush(3), John McCain(2), George Bush(2), McCain(2), White House, Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans, Linda Chavez, Republican administration, Charles Grassley, House Republicans, Eric Cantor, Gresham Barrett, Republican Congress, Orrin Hatch, Bob Bennett, Jon Huntsman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ryan, Newt Gingrich, Gingrich
Neutral Republican 34GOP(6), McCain(5), Republicans(3), Republican(3), John McCain(3), Palin(2), Sarah Palin(2), Collins(2), President Bush, Senate Republicans, Orrin Hatch, Lindsay Graham, Graham, Republican Party, Senate Republican, Charlie Norwood



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 Million Taxpayer March
17 April 2009
1077 40 7D-: George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi
2R+: GOP, Paul Ryan
15R-: Republicans, GOP, Orrin Hatch, Bob Bennett, GOP, Jon Huntsman, GOP, Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ryan, Newt Gingrich, GOP, Gingrich, Republicans, GOP
2D=, 2R=
EPA's Game of Global Warming Hide-and-Seek
26 June 2009
809 36 1D+: Lisa Jackson
5D-: Obama administration, Democrats, Obama, Jackson, Obama administration
5D=
Who's Funding the Obamacare Campaign?
24 June 2009
889 100 13D-: Obamacare, White House, Obamacare, Democratic Party, George Soros, Soros, Soros, Democratic, Soros, Obamacare, Obama, Obamacare, Obamacare
2R+: Republican, Rush Limbaugh
The Obamacare horror story you won't hear
19 June 2009
986 78 3D+: Democratic, Bobby Rush, Rush
27D-: White House, Democrats, the Obamas, Michelle Obama, Obama, the president, Obama, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, Obama, Axelrod, Axelrod, President Obama, Obama, Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, White House, Axelrod, Obama, the Obamas, Obama, Obama, first lady , Obama, Axelrod
4R+: Republican, Charles Grassley, Republican, President Reagan
3D=
Obama's AmeriCrooks and Cronies Scandal
17 June 2009
991 76 15D-: Obama, President Obama, Michelle Obama, Clinton, Obama, Democratic, Obama, Obama, Obama, Democratic, Democratic, Obama, first lady, Obama, Obama
3R+: President George W. Bush, GOP, Charles Grassley
1R-: Bush
2D=
Dear David Letterman
12 June 2009
754 100 1D-: Eliot Spitzer
10R+: Sarah Palin, Palin, Palin, Willow Palin, Palin, Bristol Palin, Palin, Palin, GOP, Palin
Cold cash, hot Democratic mess
10 June 2009
996 61 2D+: Pelosi, Democratic
25D-: Democratic, William "Cold Cash" Jefferson, Nancy Pelosi, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Pelosi, Jefferson, Pelosi, Jefferson, Democrat, Democrats, Charlie Rangel, Loretta and Linda Sanchez, Maxine Waters, Democratic, Pelosi
2R+: Republicans, Republicans
2R-: Republican, Republican Congress
1D=, 1R=
The U.S. Department of Injustice
5 June 2009
1009 81 2D+: Democratic, Bobby Kennedy
15D-: President Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Holder, Obama, Democratic, Obama, Holder, Holder, Obama, Democratic, Holder, Holder, Obama, White House, Barack Obama
2R+: President Bush, Bush
Climate of hate, world of double standards
3 June 2009
956 83 5D-: White House, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
1D=
The truth about ObamACORN
1 June 2009
965 71 1D+: Obama
18D-: ObamACORN, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
5D=
Not all ‘Compelling Personal Stories’ are Equal
27 May 2009
983 66 2D+: Obama, McCaskill
10D-: White House, Democrats, Democrat, Obama, Claire McCaskill, Democrats, McCaskill, McCaskill, McCaskill, Democrats
2R+: Republicans, Republican
2D=
All the News That's Fit to Suppress
20 May 2009
861 62 6D-: Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
2R+: GOP, John McCain
6D=
Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off
13 May 2009
1050 79 23D-: Obama, White House, Obama, administration, Kathleen Sebelius, Hilda Solis, Solis, Patrick Gaspard, Obama, George Soros, Democratic, John Kerry, Gaspard, Gaspard, White House, the president, White House, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama White House, Obama White House, Obama
6D=
Battered Hedge Fund Managers' Syndrome
8 May 2009
916 90 21D-: President Obama, president, Obama, Obama, Obama, Michelle Obama, the Obamas, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama White House, Larry Summers, Rahm Emanuel, Vice President Joe Biden, Obama, Obama, Obama, the president, the president, The president
3R+: John McCain, Republican, McCain
1D=, 1R=
The Selective Transparency of Barack Obama
6 May 2009
972 100 27D-: Barack Obama, White House, the president, President Obama, White House, White House, White House, Obama, Obama White House, administration, Obama, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Obama, David Axelrod, Hilda Solis, Eric Holder, Obama, Obama, Obama, White House, Obama, White House, Obama, President Obama, Obama, President Obama
Double Standard Couture
4 May 2009
710 14 2D+: Barack, Obama
10D-: Michelle Obama, the Obamas, President Obama, Clinton, Obama, Rahm Emanuel, White House, Lawrence Summers, The Obamas, Mrs. O
1R+: McCain
3R-: John McCain, George Bush, Bush
3D=, 4R=
100 Days of Reckless Photo-Op Hubris
29 April 2009
923 100 21D-: White House, Obama, Obama, Obama, White House, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Democratic, Obama, The president, White House, Obama, Obama, Obama, presidency, Obama, Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Janet Napolitano
Civility and Tolerance in the Age of Obama
22 April 2009
978 56 1D+: President Obama
7D-: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, White House, David Axelrod, Obama, Obamessiah
6R+: GOP, Tom Tancredo, Tancredo, Tancredo, Tancredo, Dick Armey
2R-: Republican, Gresham Barrett
1D=
CBC: Congressional Bootlickers for Castro
13 April 2009
804 71 10D-: Democrats, Cleaver, House Democrats, Barbara Lee, Laura Richardson, Bobby Rush, Marcia Fudge, Mel Watt, Mike Honda, Lee
4D=
Obama Census Plan: No Illegal Alien Left Behind
8 April 2009
1002 71 5D-: Obama, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama, Obama
2D=
Obama Census Plan: No Illegal Alien Left Behind
3 April 2009
721 2 8D-: Obama, Democrats, Obama administration, Gary Locke, Locke, Obama, Carter administration, Obama
4R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, GOP, Republicans
1D=
The Shut Up and Swallow Congress
1 April 2009
818 80 2D+: Democratic, Robert Byrd
10D-: Democrats, Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, Boxer, Durbin, Democrats, President Obama, White House, Obama, Obama
8R+: Republicans, GOP, GOP, Jeff Sessions, Judd Gregg, John Thune, Republicans, GOP
2D=
The New Vigilantes and Their Unaccountable Enablers
27 March 2009
869 44 3D-: Democratic, Barney Frank, George Soros
4R-: GOP, Charles Grassley, House Republicans, Eric Cantor
Look beyond the bogus bonus smokescreen
20 March 2009
832 62 10D-: Democrats, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Democratic administration, Obama administration, Tim Geithner, Obama administration, White House, administration, Vice President Joe Biden
4R+: House Republicans, Bush administration, GOP, Tom Coburn
1R-: Republican administration
6D=
The Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage
18 March 2009
966 19 2D+: Democratic, Elijah Cummings
16D-: White House, Obama administration, Tim Geithner, Geithner, President Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama administration, Democratic, Chris Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Obama
4R-: Bush, GOP, McCain, McCain
1D=, 3R=
Maxine ‘Poison’ Waters: Banking on Hypocrisy
13 March 2009
947 74 2D+: Barney Frank, Democrats
16D-: Maxine ‘Poison’ Waters, Democratic, Maxine Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Waters, Frank, Maxine Waters, Democratic
1D=
Queen Nancy: Fly as I Say, Not as I Fly
11 March 2009
953 78 12D-: Democratic, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Democratic, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats, Pelosi
1R+: Bush administration
2D=, 1R=
Cube-Steak Americans vs. the Wagyu-Beef White House
6 March 2009
810 89 8D-: White House, Obama administration, President Obama, White House, Obama, administration, President Obama, Barack Obama
1D=
‘Going Galt’: America's Wealth Producers Vs. Wealth Redistributors
4 March 2009
837 2 2D-: Barack Obama, Obama
1R-: George Bush
Obama's New Commerce Secretary Nominee: Not So ‘Squeaky Clean’
27 February 2009
1266 79 2D+: Obama, Democrat
42D-: Obama, Gary Locke, President Obama, Locke, Locke, Obama administration, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke, Clinton, Locke, John Huang, Huang, Clinton, Gore, Locke, Locke, Clinton, Huang, Locke, Clinton, Gore, Democratic, Locke, Locke, Huang, Huang, Clinton, Huang, Locke, Huang, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke, Locke
1R-: Republican
2D=
These Foreclosure ‘Victims’ Deserve No Sympathy
25 February 2009
985 100 1D-: President Obama
Rebel Yell: Taxpayers revolt against gimme-mania
20 February 2009
956 74 1D+: Barack Obama
13D-: President Obama, Obama, Obama, Pelosi, Obama, Obama, Obama, Pelosi, Democratic, Chuck Schumer, Schumer, Democratic, John Edwards
1R+: GOP
1D=, 1R=
ACORN and Obama: Together Again
18 February 2009
788 62 5D-: Obama, President Obama, White House, Obama, Obama
3D=
The ‘Tiny’ Trillion-Dollar Turbaconducken You Don't Care About
13 February 2009
936 58 16D-: Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, President Obama, Democratic, Debbie Stabenow, Carl Levin, Harry Reid, Reid, President Obama, Reid, Obama, Rod Blagojevich, House Democratic, David Obey, Obey
2R+: Republicans, GOP
1R-: Bush administration
5D=, 2R=
Barack Obama's savior-based economy
11 February 2009
932 89 13D-: Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama, Obama, President Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Chris Dodd, Democrats, Obama, the president, Obama
2R+: GOP, Mark Sanford
2D=
Ashley Judd: Clown in Wolf Guardian's Clothing
6 February 2009
759 62 8R+: Sarah Palin, GOP, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Republican
5R=
All the President's Tax Cheats
4 February 2009
981 86 28D-: the President, Barack Obama, administration, Obama, Bill Richardson, Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, administration, Daschle, Democratic, Daschle, Nancy Killefer, President Obama, Clinton, Geithner, Geithner, White House, Robert Gibbs, Obama, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, the president, Vice President Joe Biden, Obama, Killefer, Daschle, Daschle, Barack Obama
8R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush White House, GOP, John Thune
1R-: Linda Chavez
3D=
Stimulus slush fund for housing entitlement thugs
30 January 2009
816 60 2D-: President Barack Obama, Democrats
2R+: GOP, John Boehner
2R=
GOP: Time To Get Things Undone
28 January 2009
958 30 1D+: Obama
7D-: President Obama, Obama, Democratic, Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Obama
2R+: Rush Limbaugh, Republican
1R-: John McCain
1D=, 6R=
The John Murtha Jihadist Correctional Facility
23 January 2009
1060 86 18D-: John Murtha, John Murtha, Democratic, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, John Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, John Murtha, Democrats, Clinton, John Murtha
3D=
And Now, Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Spending Orgy
21 January 2009
832 53 2D+: Heath Shuler, Kent Conrad
8D-: President Obama, President Obama, Democrats, House Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Obama, President Obama
1R+: John Boehner
3D=
A Government of the Goofs, by the Goofs, for the Goofs
16 January 2009
916 44 20D-: Barack Obama, Tim Geithner, Geithner, Obama, Geithner, Geithner, Geithner, Geithner, Geithner, Geithner, Geithner, Geithner, Geithner, Obama, Democrats, Geithner, Al Franken, Charlie Rangel, Vice President Joe Biden, Geithner
2R-: Senate Republicans, Republicans
5D=, 4R=
Obama's Recession Remedy: Tax the Poor!
14 January 2009
906 78 13D-: Obama, Democrats, Obama, Democratic, Democrats, HillaryCare, Democrats, Democrats, Obama, Democratic, Obama, Democrats, Democratic
2R+: Republican, Republican
1D=, 2R=
The Generational Theft Act of 2009
7 January 2009
787 48 13D-: Barack Obama, White House, Obama, Obama, Democrats, Obama, Democrats, President Obama, Democratic, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
2R-: Mitch McConnell, GOP
2D=
The State of Our Borders 2008
5 January 2009
692 24 1D-: Barack Obama
1R-: White House
1D=