Thanks to the relentless Don Luskin, Krugman has finally korrected his erroneous claim that, after becoming clients of Jack Abramoff, tribal donations to Democrats declined by 9 percent — but the man who hates to admit he’s wrong can’t resist trying to downplay the significance of his error:

Correction: On Jan. 30 I cited an article in The American Prospect that reported that Indian tribes who hired Jack Abramoff had reduced their contributions to Democrats by 9 percent. Dwight Morris, who prepared the study on which the article was based, says on The American Prospect