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Here’s a fun story from The New Yorker about how the U.S. Senate works, or mostly doesn’t. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who was appointed to his seat last year and is already running in defense of it, contributes a few comments that make me wonder why in hell he wants to stay there.

“Sit and watch us for seven days — just watch the floor,” the freshman Democrat told George Packer. “You know what you’ll see happening? Nothing.”

I appreciate that it should be difficult to create and pass legislation to fix things and help people. But it should not be impossible. And lately, it is. This is not encouraging if you’re among the growing fraction of jobless Americans that Paul Krugman fears are in danger of becoming a permanent underclass as Congress defines prosperity down.