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Welcome to the 3 Martini lunch. Grab a stall next to Greg Karambas of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

3 Martinis coming up.

Hey, really glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the 3 Martini lunch. We've got good, bad and crazy Martinis for conservatives today.

And Jim once again Joe Manchin coming through with our good Martini. You know Joe Manchin said after the 2020 election that he would make sure that the filibuster didn't go anywhere. He's been good on his word. It seemed like he was getting wobbly there a little bit. But he stood firm. Got some help from Kirsten Sinema, which probably helped him stay that way.

Then he sunk build back better. He knocked down near a tandem for a critical spot in the Biden administration. And now he is once again seeing a radical nominee come from the Biden administration that he will not allow to be confirmed. This is Sarah Bloom-Raskin, who's actually the wife of far left Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin. She's nominated for a position on the federal reserve.

And Joe Manchin is not going to vote for her because of her stance on energy in an era of inflation. Now a couple of weeks ago the free beacon did a very good right up on why she would be bad at the Fed.

And basically it's the she thinks banks should play a role in fighting climate change to the point it would seem of punishing banks for doing business with energy companies.

So that's what kind of person were potentially dealing with here. Manchin doesn't think that's the right person at this time to be on the Fed.

Washington Post quoting Manchin saying, I have carefully reviewed Sarah Bloom-Raskin's qualifications and previous public statements. Her previous public statements have failed to satisfactorily address my concerns about the critical importance of financing and all of the above energy policy to meet our nation's critical energy needs.

I have come to the conclusion that I am unable to support her nomination to serve as a member of the Federal Reserve Board.

She was nominated to the job of vice chair for supervision, which is the Fed's top banking regulator. Democrats meanwhile trying to change the subject by blaming Republicans for not advancing Biden's fed nominees.

But pat to me of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee pointing out publicly we've approved every person to go to a full committee vote except Sarah Bloom-Raskin.

So Jim, what do you make of Joe Manchin once again stepping up and probably taking a few punches from the left here?

Well, Greg, one of the things that I think makes this the good martini is it's an indicator that the Biden administration and its team and probably prime minister Ron Claim and the political strategists are all slow learners.

In a normal administration, you have your most political capital on inauguration day and it's very slow usually very slowly declines. Month by month, year by year, your ability to persuade people in your own party to do what you want slowly declines.

So anything really hard you want to do any any nomination that you've got, you know, you know, is going to generate a certain amount of opposition best to do it early.

You don't, you know, your best chance is going to be in your first year in office, then second year, and then depending what happens in the midterms, if you're lucky, you can still get in the third and fourth year.

But generally got to do it early. Well, we are now a couple months into Biden's second year in office and it has not been a normal presidency.

Biden's approval rating has dropped pretty darn low, pretty darn steep. I think we can agree that Afghanistan was a key turning point.

But since then, all kinds of problems with border with inflation in particular, the pledge I'm going to shut down the virus and then the huge Omicron wave, all this stuff kind of added up to create this sense that Biden was incompetent and not up to the job and kind of daughtering and always a day late in a dollar short.

And all that stuff. So it was not surprising. So this is really not a great time to try to shove through a nomination, you know, is going to be controversial. Oh, by the way, you're in a 50-50 Senate.

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