In Newsweek, that raving liberal, George F. Will had this (among other things) to say about 2oo5:

At home, the president's, and the nation's, disagreeable year can be summarized by three female names: Terri Schiavo, Harriet Miers and Katrina. The first involved grotesque overreaching by the federal government, undertaken by self-described conservatives whose action refuted their description. The second involved indifference to competence. The third displayed the consequences of incompetence. Abroad, Iraq illustrated one, two and three.

And so, as Kurt Vonnegut was wont to say, it goes …