Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The "What Does Congress Do All Day?" Edition
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🗓️ 1 August 2014
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz with special guests Jamelle Bouie and Annie Lowrey. This week: Continued violence in the Middle East, a potential lawsuit against Obama, and a small victory for the pro-choice contingent in the South.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political Gab Fest is sponsored by The Great Courses, engaging video and audio lectures taught by top professors. Courses like The Secret Life of Words, English Words, and their origins. Get 80% off the original price for a limited time when you visit the greatcourses.com slash gabfest. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for August 1st, 2014, the What Does Congress Do All Day Edition? |
| 0:32.3 | I'm David Plotz, the editor at large of Slate, and I'm at large. |
| 0:36.5 | In fact, I'm in Montpelier, Vermont, and I have |
| 0:39.4 | special guests, as you'll hear in a second. Today, we're going to talk about why the war in Gaza is so |
| 0:43.4 | much worse than anyone expected than the secret Democratic plan to persuade Republicans to impeach |
| 0:49.4 | President Obama, what are Democrats up to there, And we will talk about the last Mississippi abortion |
| 0:55.7 | clinic. Can it survive a ridiculous new state law designed to shut it? Plus, we'll have cocktail |
| 1:01.7 | chatter, of course. And in Slate Plus, we'll have a discussion about pot reparations. What are those? |
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| 2:00.5 | So we have an exciting lineup today because Dickerson and Bazlon both are on vacation, |
| 2:05.6 | but who needs them when you have the, in the role of Emily Bazelon, the passionate, funny, |
| 2:12.3 | liberal, Slate staff writer Jamel Bowie. |
| 2:14.6 | Hello, Jamel. |
| 2:15.7 | Hello. |
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