Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martini's coming up.

Hey, we're really glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

Yes, we finally made it here again and once again this week it feels like a significant

accomplishment.

Good, bad and crazy Martini's for conservatives today and Jim.

Let's start with the good martini as we usually do when we actually have one and take

a look at the narrative of the Biden administration has been pedaling for the past several days

that it's entirely Putin's fault that you're paying record numbers at the gas pump.

That is not backed up by the facts and they are counting on Americans having a very short

memory and being willing to pay a lot over an extended period of time, neither of which

I would say are very good wagers on their part.

But Drew Holden, he is a freelance journalist, he's written in the past for National Review,

but also the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News, Federalist, and so he's got this

long thread on Twitter.

It says President Biden recently said, quote, it's simply not true that my administration

or policies are holding back domestic energy production.

So he goes through and looks back at what the Biden administration has actually done while

Jen Psaki is making jokes about embroidered invitations for energy companies to drill.

Drew Holden says just two weeks ago, Biden froze new drilling permits and stopped leases

on federal lands because a court ruled that they couldn't use an elevated, quote, social

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