Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.

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

Three Martinis coming up.

Very glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

Your stool is prepared for you.

We've got good, bad, and crazy Martinis for conservatives and man.

Did we have a long menu to sift through today, but we think we've got the best good, bad,

and crazy for you today.

Jim, let's start with the good, and it's a mildly qualified good overall.

I think it's good because come 2022, which is next year Republicans have got to get control

of one of the two chambers.

It's a 50-50 split in the Senate.

I think it's going to be actually tougher to win back the Senate than the House, but

the House, of course, has a handful of seat majority for the Democrats, and that's leading

to a lot of potential problems, including the three-and-a-half trillion, officially.

Most conservatives say it's going to be a lot more expensive than that if it passes.

But we're starting to get some decisions now.

There were still a couple of incumbent Republicans in the Senate who were taking their own sweet

time, trying to figure out whether they wanted to run for another term.

One of those was Chuck Grassley of Iowa, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980.

That's the same day Ronald Reagan was elected president, which will be 42 years ago, come

Election Day 2022.

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