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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, June 17th, 2011, or as we say, the first day of the rest of Anthony Weiner's life. I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. I'm here in Washington with Emily Bazelon. It's a weird thing turned upside down. And John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, joins us from New Haven. No, he doesn't. He's living my life, and I'm living his. No, he's in New Orleans. Where are you, John? I'm in New Orleans. Why are you in New Orleans?

Why are you in New Orleans? I'm at New Orleans for the Republican Leadership Conference,

which is a gathering of Republican activists and poobaz, and some candidates. It was originally

supposed to be all of the candidates, but some of them have peeled off for reasons of illness and reasons of

campaigns, which we can talk about later.

So can we have a brief nod to the resignation of Anthony Wiener since we talked about it so

much.

Anthony Wiener resigned on Thursday.

Are you supposed to say topics first?

Oh, topics.

Our topics will be not Anthony Wiener.

Then we'll talk about Republican presidential candidates in their debate this week.

Then our second topic will be the fight over war powers and our Libya intervention, engagement, whatever it is that we're calling it.

And our third topic will be a couple of very interesting free speech and schools cases that Emily will

lead our discussion about. And we'll have cocktail chatter, of course. And we have two sponsors

this week, if you can believe it. We have two awesome ads for you coming up. But first,

but first weiner. Can I just gloat to you guys, which is that I predicted that he would resign once his wife got back from her trip overseas, that that would be the precipitating thing when she was back. It would all settle out and he would resign. And indeed, that's exactly what happened. But do either of you have anything to say about his departure?

No. No.

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