He is a Democrat.
He caught the Washington snooty disease, poor fellow. :)
At the end of the segment I found out that the supremely unappealing Liberal on NPR was the "conservative" David Brooks.
It's worse than that...he is a member of the Trilateral Commission, along with David Rockefeller, David Gergen, Zoe Baird, Henry Kissinger, Paul Volker, John Deutch, Dianne Feinstein, Tom Foley, Condoleezza Rice, John D. Negroponte, Jay Rockefeller, Mort Zuckerman, Robert Zoellick, Susan Rice, Tim Geithner, Joseph Nye, Jr., and many, many more New World Order types...