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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GapFest.

For February 6th, 2015, the Vaxers Taxers and Justice Faxers Edition.

I'm David Plott's of Atlas Obscura. John Degersen.

That was so nice smile from John Degersen over there.

This week we'll talk about the vaccine panic and occasion for aggrieved moral spungness from everybody.

Then President Obama drops his budget on Congress.

John Degersen will tell us what it means.

Also, Brian Williams, the news anchor with the Capitol and

each crow when it turns out he made up slash and bellish slash something

a story about being shot down in a helicopter in Iraq.

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