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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest 4.

July the 15th, 2011.

I am David Plotz, the editor of Slate here in Washington, D.C., with John Dickerson, Slate's

chief political correspondent, oh so necessary this week for the understanding of our readers.

And joining us from New Haven back again.

Welcome back, Emily.

Is Emily number one, Emily Bazelon,

back with us after a brief... I don't have to be Emily Noffey can be... Well, Emily Jaffe did a stalwart job

filling in last week, and it's great to have you back. So we're going to have three topics this week.

Topic one will be, I don't know.

I'm not sure what's in the news.

What would it possibly be?

The debt ceiling negotiations. Topic two is going to be the Amazon sales tax fight that is unfolding in California.

And topic three will be a challenge to Utah's polygamy, anti-poolligamy laws, anti-bigamy laws, I guess.

Suggested by our Facebook readers.

Suggested by our Facebook readers.

Speaking of Facebook, can we speak for a minute before we get to our main topic?

Last week we posed a challenge to you, our listeners, where we were asking you to help come up with a T-shirt for the Gab Fest.

And a lot of great submissions on the Facebook page, some by email, which we moved over to

the Facebook page in general.

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