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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for May 31st, 2013, the Boardwalk Bromance Edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.

I've sweated twice through the shirt today.

Here we are in the sauna that is the Slate, D.C.

No one is bromenting with me. It is the sauna in Washington is the Slate, D.C. No one is having a bromance with you. No one is promancing with me.

It is the sauna in Washington.

My shirt has suffered. And you heard the great news, which is that we're all here in the flesh, including Emily Bazelon down from New Haven. Hello, Emily. Here to sweat with you. It's you don't sweat. You glow. Slate, Senior Editor, of course.

And then our chief political correspondent, who it also glows,

close with a whiz. Glow. Slate, Senior Editor, of course. And then our chief political correspondent who it also glows, glows with the wisdom that comes from experience, knowledge, age.

This John Dickerson.

Hello, John.

Oh, David.

On this week's show, the friendship between Barack Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, they're taking it to a deeper level.

What does this have to do with bipartisanship? Can it teach us anything about how Washington can improve?

Also, we'll talk about the fascinating showdown between President Obama and the Republican Senate over judicial appointments, particularly judicial

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