My inner circle bound me with polls, focus groups and fundraising — building the platform for my next campaign atop the confetti from my last.

Somehow I still managed to pursue the agenda I'd sought office to accomplish — and found myself sinking in that great quagmire along the Potomac: the bureaucracy, partisanship and endless calls for compromise that constitute daily life in Washington and saps the guts from every brave plan it encounters.



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