The Political Gabfest: The Take This Job and Shove It 'Cause I've Got Obamacare Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Dems' midterm prospects, Obamacare's impact on the economy, and Facebook's big birthday. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The GabFest is sponsored by Stamps.com.
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0:22.8	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 7th, 2014, the Take
0:26.9	This Job and Shove it, because I've got Obamacare edition.
0:31.1	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.
0:32.5	I'm here in Slate's D.C. studio with John Dickerson, who is checkered, not in his moral life, but he's just got lots of checks on.
0:40.9	And he is Slate's chief political correspondent.
0:43.0	Hello.
0:43.9	Hello, David.
0:44.8	Hello.
0:45.2	Hello.
0:45.6	Hello.
0:46.0	And joining us from New Haven, where she has somehow dodged conviction for murder, acquitted for murder, his His slate senior editor, Emily Bazelon.
0:54.4	Hello, Emily.
0:54.8	I forgot to think of myself as a criminal all week.
0:59.0	I guess you're right.
1:00.3	Or so says Hercule Poirot from the comments last week.
1:03.3	Oh, right. Oh, I'm sorry.
1:03.9	John is throwing his brow.
1:05.6	He wasn't accused of murder, so he didn't have to worry about it. Sometimes I don't follow the email chain on Slate, you know, the like Slate editor's email chain.
1:13.9	And so sometimes I miss big news like this.
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