Political Gabfest - Impeach ‘Em All, Let God Sort ‘Em Out
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🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are reunited with John Dickerson to discuss the Wisconsin Republicans’ effort to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz and protect their gerrymander; Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to start an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden and prevent a government shutdown; and Biden’s age problem and Donald Trump’s battleground-state difficulties. Join us for Political Gabfest Live in Madison, Wisconsin on October 25!
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Scott Bauer for AP: “Why Wisconsin Republicans are talking about impeaching a new state Supreme Court justice”
City Cast Madison podcast: “How We Know Wisconsin’s Maps are Gerrymandered”
Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002)
Luke Broadwater for The New York Times: “What We Know About the Impeachment Case Against Biden” and Carl Hulse and Luke Broadwater: “McCarthy Tries to Leverage Biden Impeachment to Avoid a Shutdown”
Nate Cohn for The New York Times: “Trump’s Electoral College Edge Seems to Be Fading” and “How to Interpret Polling Showing Biden’s Loss of Nonwhite Support”
FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: “Why Biden Is Losing Support Among Voters Of Color”
Paul Waldman for MSNBC: “You can talk about Biden’s age. Just not like this.”
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future by Franklin Foer
Dan Balz for The Washington Post: “Mitt Romney says he will not seek a second term in the Senate”
McKay Coppins for The Atlantic: “What Mitt Romney Saw In The Senate”
“Mitt” on Netflix
Laura Vozzella for The Washington Post: “Va. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: The Knockout Queen: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe and The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff
John: The Journals of John Cheever edited by Robert Gottlieb; CBS News Sunday Morning; Ted Gioia in The Honest Broker: “Why Is Music Getting Sadder?”; and Chris Dalla Riva: “Tears Are Falling And I Feel The Pain”
David: Zhong sauce by Fly By Jing
Listener chatter from Ben: Tyler Vigen’s “The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David discuss Susanna Gibson, the Virginia Democratic House candidate who “performed sex online with husband for tips.”
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily, David, and John talk with Barbara Kingsolver about her best-selling book, Demon Copperhead.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth
Research by Julie Huygen
Hosts
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.0 | September 14th, 2023, the Impeachimall led God's sort of mount edition. |
| 0:21.0 | I am David Plotts of CityCast in Washington DC that won Chuckle King from John Dickerson |
| 0:27.0 | of CBS Primetime in New York City. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, Juan Dickerson. |
| 0:31.0 | How are you spelling Juan in that context? |
| 0:33.0 | Or is that the genius of your early morning repartee that it's both |
| 0:37.5 | J-U-A-N and W-A-N? |
| 0:39.9 | It is. Thank you. |
| 0:41.2 | Also with us, Emily Baselon, the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School, |
| 0:46.0 | New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello, David. Hello, John. |
| 0:49.2 | This week on the Gap Fest, the brazen and shocking scheme |
| 0:54.3 | to impeach a new Wisconsin Supreme Court justice to protect Republican power in the state. |
| 0:59.8 | And then the pathetic and not very shocking scheme to impeach the US president to protect |
| 1:05.1 | Kevin McCarthy's power in the House. And then what do the latest polls tell us about a Biden |
| 1:10.8 | Trump race, especially in battleground states? Now we say battleground states. We don't say |
| 1:15.7 | swing states, right? Yeah. For good reason, battleground states. Plus, of course, we'll have |
| 1:20.8 | cocktail chatter and John will explain why we say battleground. Speaking of Wisconsin, |
| 1:25.9 | we're coming, of course, to Madison. There's still a few tickets left to our live show in |
| 1:30.6 | Madison on Wednesday, October 25th at the Majestic Theater in downtown Madison. We're going to be |
| 1:35.6 | there on the 25th. It's a Wednesday. The show starts at 7.30. The VIP happy hour is sold out, |
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