Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The Conservative Nanny State Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson. This week: Is the GOP becoming a Party of ideas? Also, the move in Tennesse to toss out the Democratic judges on Tennessee State Supreme Court, and why people panic about Ebola even when they don't need to.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political Gab Fest is brought to you by Stamps.com, buy and print official U.S. |
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| 0:22.7 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for August 8th, 2014, the conservative |
| 0:27.1 | nanny state edition. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm David Plotz, the editor at large of Slate. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:32.8 | Today, has the GOP suddenly become the party of ideas as it was 30 years ago? We will talk about Paul Ryan's |
| 0:40.4 | poverty plan. Then an effort to throw out three Supreme Court justices in Tennessee to tilt the |
| 0:47.0 | balance of power in that state's court to Republicans. Then the Ebola panic, do you have it? Not the disease. The panic. Are you panicking |
| 0:56.8 | about Ebola? Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, we will discuss children, how much |
| 1:04.4 | children are allowed to wander today as compared to a generation ago. Should they be allowed to |
| 1:09.0 | wander more? Why have our habits change so much? |
| 1:12.7 | You can join Slate Plus, our great new membership, where these GabFest extra segments by going to |
| 1:19.7 | slate.com slash gabfest plus, or you can email me directly at David.plots at slate.com to get the |
| 1:25.6 | best offer. We are back together after a fashion. |
| 1:29.5 | John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, is in a state that starts with W. |
| 1:35.2 | Correct, sir. |
| 1:36.3 | It's not Washington. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm in Wisconsin. |
| 1:40.2 | Fortunately, yeah, after doing some reporting, running into lots of fabulous Gab Fest listeners in Milwaukee and Madison. |
| 1:48.6 | I'm now up in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for not doing some reporting. |
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