Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martini's coming up.

So glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

Jim Garrity is on vacation, Rob Long, contributing editor at National Review Online,

co-founder of Ricochet, co-host of the Glop,

and Ricochet Podcast, busy guy,

in for Jim again today.

And Rob, we've got a good slash bad martini,

and I think two crazies.

But we'll let the improvement.

We'll let the listeners decide.

The good slash bad as we get started here is kind of like the bad martini that you and I shared on Monday where the LA Teachers Union didn't want to go back to class until we have Medicare for all,

defunding of police, wealth taxes, moratoriums on new charter schools.

Those ideas, of course, and those demands are ridiculous.

But at least they're now reading the silent part out loud.

And so we know where these teachers unions have really been all along.

They're finally actually being more honest than they have been in a very long time and today that's true of the green movement

The green movement for years of course Rob was saying look we're not trying to radically transform anything.

There's just better ways to do things.

Green technology, renewable energy, these are the keys.

They were going to create millions of jobs in these areas. The economy is going to boom. the

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