—Finally, Steve Pearlstein uses the snow that’s gripped the Washington area, and a little “snow insurance” thought experiment, to make a powerful point about the current state of American politics.
It is a measure of the dysfunction of our political system that we can no longer rationally debate whether it is penny-wise and pound-foolish not to spend a little more to try to keep the Capital of the Free World from grinding to a halt every time a snowflake descends from the heavens.
Here’s hoping we dig out of both messes soon.
