Dismantling the Dems' Obamacare Arguments
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
First, they highlight former Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer’s sharp takedown of Democrats blaming Republicans for the expiring Obamacare subsidies. Meijer reminds CNN that Democrats created these COVID-era subsidies and agreed twice to let them lapse. Jim and Greg also explain how this whole fight proves yet again that Obamacare is a massive failure and was designed to fail.
Next, Jim breaks down Argentina’s economic turmoil and the U.S. decision to buy $20 billion of its devalued currency. Will this help give Javier Milei's free market economic agenda more time to work or is it too late?
Finally, they dive into the latest Democratic Senate brawl, this time in Massachusetts. Eighty-year-old Sen. Ed Markey faces a challenge from Rep. Seth Moulton, who bizarrely argues that Markey isn’t progressive enough and pledges to enact government-run health care.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.2 | Very glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:17.5 | And Jim, we just talked yesterday about the Democratic primary fight to come in Maine looks |
| 0:23.2 | like there's going to be another one in Massachusetts we'll talk about today. We'll also be taking |
| 0:27.7 | a close look at what you wrote about today in the morning jolt and that's the U.S. bailout |
| 0:31.6 | of Argentina and why we're doing that. But we start with the ongoing government shutdown fight. |
| 0:38.3 | Now on day 15, Republicans want a clean extension. |
| 0:42.4 | It's already passed the House. |
| 0:43.7 | They've got all Republicans and I think three Democrats willing to go for the clean extension, |
| 0:50.2 | but that's not enough to get to 60, so the Democrats are still blocking that. |
| 0:54.0 | They say they need to get to an agreement with the Republicans as it relates to Obamacare subsidies |
| 0:59.8 | before the government ought to reopen. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, a very interesting panel on CNN yesterday as it relates to this, and one of the panelists |
| 1:07.2 | was former Republican Michigan Congressman Peter Meyer. And Peter Meyer dumped a lot of |
| 1:13.3 | cold water on the Democrats talking point here. He says Chris Van Hollen and others have basically said, |
| 1:18.5 | oh, it's the Republicans who are gumming up the work on these subsidies. It's entirely their |
| 1:22.4 | fault that this isn't happening. And he gave a little history lesson. He called the the expiring Obamacare subsidies |
| 1:30.1 | a ticking time bomb that Republicans planted. They were introduced in ARPA, the American Rescue |
| 1:36.9 | Plan in 2021. I know I was in Congress. We all voted against it on the Republican side. That was a Democrat |
| 1:42.7 | budget reconciliation bill. It got to the |
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