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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, November 21st.

I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. You editors about politics. It's Thursday, November 21st. I'm Dorothy Wickenden,

executive editor of The New Yorker. You like your current insurance. You keep that insurance.

Period. End of story. For years, President Obama made that promise repeatedly. But then people started receiving cancellation notices from their insurance companies, and he had to apologize recently on NBC News.

I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got

for me.

Hendrick Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Liz are here to talk about Obama's crisis and

to compare it to other presidential catastrophes and how they were greeted by the opposition and by the press.

John, it's sort of hard to remember, but just a few weeks ago after the government shut down, the Republican Party seemed to be hopelessly divided.

Now the administration seems to have done the impossible and united the GOP over its own failures.

So I want to know how serious Obama's troubles are and what role the press has played in the

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