Slate: The Clear and Present Danger Gabfest Questions
Political Gabfest
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🗓️ 13 January 2011
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This week's political gab fest was recorded before a live audience on Wednesday, January 12th at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:15.2 | What follows is the question and answer period from that gab fest. |
| 0:19.6 | Okay, so we have time for a few questions. |
| 0:22.2 | So anybody who has a question, there's a microphone there. |
| 0:26.7 | And there. |
| 0:27.7 | And there. |
| 0:28.3 | And also there. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.3 | Oh, man. |
| 0:32.0 | Come down. |
| 0:32.6 | I think balcony. |
| 0:34.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, you give a balcony question. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah, we can do a balcony question. It'll be like Dustin Hoffman in the graduate. Sorry. Yeah, you, give a balcony question. Yeah, we can do a balcony question. |
| 0:38.5 | It'll be like Dustin Hoffman in the graduate. |
| 0:41.9 | But hold on. |
| 0:44.7 | We've got a question at the microphone before we go to the balcony. |
| 0:47.3 | You have to wait your turn, about it. |
| 0:50.5 | Okay, so my question is, for the past couple of years, being party of no has worked really well for the Republicans, and I'm wondering, now that they control Congress, is that going to continue to pay off for them? Will their party continue, will their base voters continue to think they're great and principled, or will they start to pay any kind of political price for it? |
| 1:12.2 | I think they will pay a price because, well, they'll pay a price because in the House |
| 1:19.4 | they have to actually put forward legislation, and that will either get a thumbs up or |
| 1:22.4 | thumbs down from the base. Then there will be the question of whether that legislation |
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