Slate: The Crazy Negotiating Posture Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2011

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The growing budget debate, long-term fiscal concerns, and bloggers take on the Huffington Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Slate Political Gab Fest is brought to you by Fresh Books, the easy online invoicing service that gets you paid quickly and makes you look professional.
0:13.6	Get started with a free package at freshbooks.com.
0:17.2	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Tax Day, Friday, April 15th, except it's not really tax day.
0:24.2	2011.
0:25.2	It got pushed forward.
0:26.4	It got pushed forward to Monday.
0:28.5	Oh.
0:29.0	Because of a D.C.
0:30.6	obscure D.C. holiday.
0:32.5	But that's just in D.C. the rest of the country.
0:34.2	No, no.
0:34.8	The whole country is pushed forward until Monday.
0:36.8	Oh, my gosh. Can you believe it? Wow. I wish I hadn't filed so early. I could have
0:41.1	saved four days of interest. Exactly. I'm David Plotz. The Adder of Slate. I'm here in Washington
0:45.7	with John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, joining us by teleconference from New Haven, Connecticut.
0:54.6	By Telex.
0:55.7	By Fax is Emily Bazelon, Slate's senior editor.
1:00.0	And we have a great post-produce show for you this week.
1:05.0	We're going to talk about the fiscal discussions that happen, the fiscal bills in Washington, and the ongoing fiscal, fiscal, fiscal, fiscal.
1:13.9	Everything in Washington is all fiscal these days. I liked it better when it was about impeachment
1:18.0	and sex. Washington was more fun. It was more fun. Or even war. War seems better than
1:24.8	definitely. Well, that's because with impeachment, somebody else was getting screwed.
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