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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 1, 2014. The what does Congress do

all day edition? I'm David Plott's, the editor at large of Slate and I'm at large. In fact,

I'm in Montpelier Vermont and I have special guests that you'll hear in a second today. We're going

to talk about why the war in Gaza is so much worse than anyone expected. Then the secret democratic

plan to persuade Republicans to impeach President Obama, what are Democrats up to there.

We will talk about the last Mississippi abortion clinic. Can it survive a ridiculous new state

law designed to shut it? Plus we'll have cocktail chatter, of course. In Slate Plus, we'll have a

discussion about pot reparations. What are those? We'll find out in a second. I also want to

commend another Slate Plus feature to you. Arge is the new black great show as you know and it's

in the second season. We're doing a limited edition podcast series exclusive for Slate Plus members

which takes a deeper look at the show's really entertaining second season through the lens of

economics and LGBT issues and sex and more. In the latest episode, Willapaskin who's hosting that

podcast talks to Big Boo herself, the actress and can be in Leah Delaria. I hope I'm saying her name,

right? A better character, how she was cast and the straight girl obsession with Big Boo.

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