A Year of Columns Living Proof That to Err Is Human

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WASHINGTON -- When I sat down to review the past year's columns for my annual accounting of errors and misjudgments, I realized that the politicians I cover had set an impossibly high standard in 2005. They had screwed up so often and so spectacularly that my goofs were almost certain to seem trivial by comparison.

How do you match the trio of Republican misjudgments summoned up by the names of Katrina, Harriet Miers and Terri Schiavo? How do you top the Democrats' decision to entrust their party leadership to that itinerant verbal blunderbuss, Howard Dean?

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A Year of Columns Living Proof That to Err Is Human

Fear not, folks. The proprietor of this space is up to the challenge. On Sept. 4, I published a column so wildly off target that it could have got me indicted by a special prosecutor. It was writt...

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