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Political Gabfest

Slate: The Land of Formica Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2010

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Christopher Beam and Emily Bazelon. This week: Health care reform, drill baby drill, and bullying Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for the second of April.

0:09.0

I'm John Dickerson in Washington with Chris Beam sitting in for David Plotz, who is on vacation.

0:14.7

And Emily Bazelon is up in the land of Formica in New Haven at her usual post. We're going to talk about health care. Maybe that could go on our license plates, John, the land of Formica in New Haven at her usual post.

0:21.8

We're going to talk about health care...

0:22.7

Maybe that could go on our license plates, John, the land of Formica.

0:26.2

We're going to talk about health care reform.

0:27.9

This is a formica.

0:28.6

It's a little inside joke.

0:30.4

She has a ficus tree behind her, and I somehow said the word formica instead of ficus.

0:37.1

And that's... A common error.

0:39.2

A common, right.

0:40.2

Many botanists have made the same error in the jungles.

0:45.9

So anyway, health care reform is our first topic.

0:47.9

Then we're going to talk about drilling off the coast of the United States.

0:51.9

And then we're going to talk about bullying in a case that Emily has been following and that is now became national news this week.

0:58.5

So Emily, health care reform.

1:00.3

Well, it's passed.

1:02.3

And yet again today the president is talking about the issue up in Maine on Thursday, I should say he talked about the issue.

1:08.7

What's your assessment now of this thing?

1:11.2

It's passed.

1:12.4

It doesn't seem to have gotten any more popular.

1:14.8

As you predicted, why don't you take a little bow?

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