And I can gaze and deserts eyes.

Deep brown pools and mystery.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias, trying today by Ezra Klein.

Sarah is in New Zealand, which I don't 100% believe is a real place.

But it looks pretty nice.

Yeah, I mean, it looks like the CGI from the Lord of the Ring.

That doesn't bolster my conviction that it's real.

Where you can see where it's incredibly cold because wait for it.

Hell has frozen over and a democratic one in the Alabama Senate race.

Boom, boom.

Yeah, I sort of wanted to say that this morning.

We delayed recording by a day so we could give you all of our hottest,

freshest takes to warm your hands.

We obviously we want to talk about the politics of this.

But this is the weeds and it's important to talk about the sort of immediate

policy stakes here, namely that Republicans are trying to pass a tax reform bill

and losing a Senate seat could make that considerably harder.

But they think they have a workaround.

So by the way, I do want to note how amazingly similar this feels to Obamacare.

Yes.

Right? Late in the Obamacare process, pretty much at about the same point when the bill was

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