In Thursday’s episode, Civil Beat’s chief political writer, Chad Blair falls off a fiscal cliff. Washington D.C., reporter, Michael Levine, says D.C. Democrats are now calling the “fiscal cliff” a “slope” to make it sound less scary. With the Obamas heading to Hawaii for the holidays we discuss whether there is too much hype around Christmas.

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