The Plane's The Thing: The Case for Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the
  Galactic Plane and Bulge
  We argue that the exclusion of the Galactic Plane and Bulge from the uniform
wide-fast-deep (WFD) LSST survey cadence is fundamentally inconsistent with two
of the main science drivers of LSST: Mapping the Milky Way and Exploring the
Transient Optical Sky. We outline the philosophical basis for this claim and
then describe a number of important science goals that can only be addressed by
WFD-like coverage of the Plane and Bulge.
