Slate: The Scintillating, Fascinating and Excellent Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2009

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest featuring Slate Foreign Editor and Guest Host June Thomas, along with Jacob Weisberg, Editor in Chief of the Slate Group, and Slate Deputy Editor Julia Turner. This week: The latest developments in health care, elections in Afghanistan and a renewed rivalry between New York City and the nation's capital.

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0:00.0	The GabFest is sponsored by Audible, the Internet's leading provider of spoken audio entertainment.
0:12.9	GabFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership at Apodcast.com slash gabfest.
0:22.3	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for Friday, August 21st.
0:26.5	I'm June Thomas, Slate's foreign editor.
0:29.0	John David and Emily are all at undisclosed vacation locations.
0:32.5	So we've staged a coup and relocated the GabFest to New York, where I'm joined by Jacob Weisberg,
0:38.3	editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. Hello, Jacob. Hello, June. I believe in Spain,
0:42.8	they called this a gulp-e to gamfest. So is. And Julia Turner, Slate's deputy editor and a regular
0:51.0	on Slate's Culture Gab Fest. A very scintillating and fascinating and excellent and amusing gamfest that you should all listen to.
0:59.2	Post-haste.
1:00.0	Available every Wednesday.
1:01.8	All right.
1:02.2	Plug over.
1:03.4	Today we'll be talking about the latest developments in health care reform, elections in Afghanistan, and a very August topic, the rivalry between New York City and Washington, D.C.
1:14.1	I'm putting down my script now.
1:16.3	So, healthcare.
1:17.6	This week, it seems like the big things are the administration dropping their commitment to the public option.
1:26.6	And Charles Grassley, pretty much seeming as if it's not only, he wouldn't vote for a bill if it had everything he agreed with or he wanted to see if it didn't have enough Republicans supporting it. So Republican support was more important to him than actual content. Is this crazy? What should we be
1:48.3	thinking about what's going on with the healthcare debate this week when everybody seems to be
1:53.2	almost ready to go on vacation? June, I went on vacation about 10 days ago and I left in a state of
1:58.6	near a total discussed with both how bad the legislation
2:02.0	was, the bills that had worked their way through the House and the Senate, and also just
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