Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest.

For the 17th of September, I'm John Dickerson in Washington with David Plotz.

Emily Bazelon is in New York City, and we're going to try to spend the show going through

the results of the primary and what that may or may not mean for the general election in November.

And then we're going to talk about the Tea Party and Christine O'Donnell in that conversation.

And then about John Boehner and Barack Obama and their battle.

And we'll talk about a few other things, including the fight over tax cuts.

But before we get to all of that, David Plotz wants to make an announcement about 10 different things.

Three, one, let's just acknowledge that we're all in a really bad mood, okay?

So that it's out front.

We're in a perfectly fine mood.

I'm in a bad mood.

I'm in a bad mood, too.

He's put, it's like a vice on top of the show.

Number two.

Okay. Number two.

New York folks, we have been able to add some extra tickets for the October 13th Gab Fest, which we thought was sold out.

But we were able to, through the magic of the 92nd Street Y, we were able to get some extra tickets.

So they are on sale at the 92nd Street Y website. and that's going to be a show October 13th at the Tribeca branch of the 92nd Street Y.

So if you haven't been able to get a ticket there now, a few more available.

Third, if you are a GabFest listener who is also on the faculty of the University of Michigan, could you drop us an email

at GabFest at Slate.com? We have a possible favor that we might want you to do. So if you're faculty,

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