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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 7th, 2014, the Take

This Job and Shove It, because I've got Obamacare edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.

I'm here in Slate's DC studio with John Dickerson, who is checkered, not in his moral life, but he's just got lots of checks on.

And he is Slate's chief political correspondent.

Hello.

Hello, David.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

And joining us from New Haven where she has somehow dodged conviction for murder, acquitted for murder, his slate senior editor, Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. I forgot to think of myself as a criminal all week. I guess you're right. Or so says Hercul Poirot from the criminal last week. John is furrowing his brow. He wasn't accused of murder, so he didn't have to worry about it. Sometimes I don't follow the email chain on Slate, you know, the like Slate editor's email chain.

And so sometimes I miss big news like this.

And you thought Emily might have been prosecuted for murder.

I thought somebody might have accused her of that and then everybody had a big laugh about it.

Do you think Emily had been accused of murder?

That you might not have been.

I don't know. The planet on which I sometimes live is in a galaxy far, far away.

All right.

I'm with you.

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