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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 13th, 2014. The Eric Cantor

Sure-Wares Beautiful Shoes edition. I'm David Plotz, the editor of

Slaidder of Slate. Today, the shocking defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and what it

means for the future of Congress and Democracy. Hint, nothing good. Then Hillary Clinton got

paid $14 million to write her new book, hard choices. And I have to say, whatever publisher paid her that got so ripped off, we will discuss that book.

Then a California judge rules that tenure for public school teachers in that state is unconstitutional.

Why is there so much celebration about that ruling?

Slate's chief political correspondent, John Dickerson, is in Iowa because why, John?

Well, on a hunch, I flew to Iowa to check in on the Senate race here, also to go to the Republican convention, the state Republican convention, which is this Saturday.

And then it turns out that also

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic Party, is coming here Friday to explain

how the Republican Party has become captive to the Tea Party or has been swallowed whole by

the Tea Party, which is... Oh, Eric Cantor can be her Exhibit A. Well, I think that's exactly why she's coming. So this is a lake-breaking piece of news. So really, I flew all the out here for a press conference by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which I could normally get by just going across town. Well, you enjoy the corn. Is the corn as high as an elephant's eye yet? I don't think so. I think we're in the wrong... That's Oklahoma. We're in the wrong... They've corn in Iowa. They've just a couple of years of corn in Iowa, just one or two. I'm just saying elephant's eyes from Oklahoma. That's Emily Bazelon, the elephant's eye, the gimlet-eyed elephant of this gabb fetch.

She is the Slate, Senior Editor, your New Haven, correct, Emily?

Yes.

Hello.

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