The Political Gabfest: The Conservative Nanny State Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson. This week: Is the GOP becoming a Party of ideas? Also, the move in Tennesse to toss out the Democratic judges on Tennessee State Supreme Court, and why people panic about Ebola even when they don't need to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.8	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 8, 2014. The conservative
0:57.1	Nanny State Edition, I'm David Plotts, the editor at large of Slate, I'm in Washington, DC.
1:02.6	Today has the GOP suddenly become the party of ideas as it was 30 years ago. We will talk about
1:09.1	Paul Ryan's poverty plan. Then an effort to throw out three Supreme Court justices in Tennessee
1:16.1	to tilt the balance of power in that state's court to Republicans. Then the Ebola panic,
1:23.2	do you have it? Not the disease, the panic, are you panicking about Ebola? Plus we will have
1:28.0	cocktail chatter and in Slate Plus we will discuss children, how much children are allowed to wander
1:35.5	today as compared to a generation ago. Should they be allowed to wander more? Why have our habits
1:41.2	changed so much? You can join Slate Plus, our great new membership where these GabFest extra segments
1:48.7	by going to Slate.com slash GabFest Plus or you can email me directly at David.plotts. Slate.com
1:54.9	to get the best offer. We are back together after a fashion. John Dickerson, Slate's Chief Political
2:00.7	correspondent is in a state that starts with W. Correct, sir. What's not Washington? I'm in with
2:07.9	him. I am in Wisconsin. Yeah, after doing some reporting running into lots of fabulous GabFest
2:15.2	listeners in Milwaukee and Madison. I'm now up in Sister Bay. Wisconsin for not doing some reporting.
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