"Political Scene: The Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Sequestered" (with audio)

Matthew McKnight (The New Yorker) with audio (22:50):

“What we have now is a government where the notion of solving the problem seems to be secondary to a lot of people in Congress,” George Packer says on this week’s Political Scene podcast. “That’s our political life these days: going from one near-death experience to the next.” MORE...