Token Democratic quote

The AP via CNN quotes every Republican in sight, but the only Democrat it can find to quote is Ted Kennedy, and even he gets sandwiched between massive slices of white-bread Republicans. Here's the quote (or paraphrase) sequence:

• Chertoff (R-Jafar)
• Gutierrez (R-who?)
• The White House (R-bunker)
• Duhbya (R-blithering)
• Perino (R-flack)
• Chertoff again (R)
• My boy Teddy (D)
• Gutierrez again (R)
• Chertoff again (R)
• McConnell (R-tobacco) (Mitch)
• Kyl (R-loon)
• Cornyn (R-Texas, 'nuff said)
• Grassley (R-semi-sane)
• "Some lawmakers" (R-who-the-hell-knows?)

I thought this had to be written by Nedra Pickler, but, no, the byline when I found it was Suzanne Gamboa.

At least someone at AP slipped this nugget of dissonance in for the Republicans:

Presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino said Bush has used his executive authority in the past to improve immigration enforcement, such as by strengthening border enforcement. She was pressed on why -- if the new changes were such a good idea -- Bush hadn't done them already.

There was another AP story that CNN could have taken. It actually quotes not Democrats but labor sources. Has AP decided to play both sides of the street separately instead of striving for balance?