Politics As Usual

There’s really nothing else to talk about today because nothing else seems to matter after what happened in Newtown Connecticut Friday – today people are beginning to bury their little children while the national dialog backs off of the fiscal cliff and focuses on gun violence, gun control and the role mental illness plays in these horrific acts – and maybe the media’s role too.

Emily Rooney went over the mass shooting and its implications with Michael Goldman, Democratic Strategist and senior consultant for the Government Insight Group and Garrett Quinn, contributing writer for Reason Magazine and author of the Less is More blog for Boston.com