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Republicans

• November 9 -- Don't Get "Too Radical," Republicans
Sheryl Gay Stolberg thinks Republicans can be dissuaded from "too radical an agenda."

• October 26 -- Polarizing Bush, Secretive Cheney
George W. Bush: "On issues, Mr. Bush reaches out sparingly." 
Dick Cheney: "Democrats argue that Mr. Cheney is one of the most divisive figures in American politics."

• October 25 -- More Republican "Extremism" from James Traub
James Traub contributes another column on Republican "extremism" to the Sunday Magazine.

• August 23 -- The Vanishing Republican Moderate, Again
Carl Hulse employs a standard liberal trope: "But [moderates] worry about their real influence in a party dominated by conservatives at a time when the ranks of House moderates are thinning."

• August 11 -- Another "Independent-Minded" Bush Critic
Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg praises yet another moderate Republican senator, and frequent Bush critic, Sen. Susan Collins: "Independent-minded but cautious…with her pleasant demeanor and penchant for being well prepared…."

• May 12 -- Which Republican Bush Critic Are We Lauding Today?
After interviewing media hero Sen. John McCain on Sunday, Sheryl Gay Stolberg Wednesday provides a laudatory look at moderate Republican Sen. John Warner.

• December 1 -- "Rising Incivility" in Congress: Blame Gingrich
Sheryl Gay Stolberg laments "Rising Incivility on Capitol Hill" and finds that it's (of course) Newt Gingrich's fault: "The old social order of the House was overturned in 1994, when Republicans, led by Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, wrested control of the chamber from Democrats after 40 years....the tensions spread to the Senate as House members trained in Mr. Gingrich's bare-knuckles style won election there."

• May 27 -- “Willie Horton” Republicans Rough Up “Softball” Democrats
In Adam Clymer’s view, Republicans win by using “everything from Willie Horton's image to the suggestion that Senator Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam, was unconcerned about national security.” Meanwhile, Democrats “lack the killer instinct that it takes to sell blunt, demagogic messages.”

• May 5 -- Bush’s “Radical Right” Agenda?
Columnist Thomas Friedman accuses conservatives of using the war as an excuse to drive “its radical right agenda at home.”

• May 5 -- The Times Snowe Job
The Times PR drive for Republicans opposing Bush’s tax cut continues with a front-page story on “deficit hawk and fiscal conservative” Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. But is she really?

• May 5 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Republican Kid-Killer
What would the Transcendentalist think of Bush’s tax-cut plan?