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.

Hey, happy Friday.

Thanks for joining us on the Three Martini lunch.

We are in the midst of our year-end.

Three Martini lunch awards.

The Crystal Martini's are being handed out the most

prestigious political awards that could possibly be earned. Some are good, some are

bad, and so far we're halfway through giving out these awards so this is installment

number four Jim today we'll be looking at best political idea worst political

idea and the boldest political tactics.

So without any further ado, what is your best political idea for 2019?

Well, my best idea of the year was riding between two scorpions,

which if you didn't get for Christmas or Hanukkah, you can still find on Amazon.

But I guess if I had to go political idea, Greg, I don't know about you, I felt like this was a rebuilding year for good ideas.

But I will say, look, in a year where you've seen a lot of discussion about trade wars and tariffs and protectionism and all that stuff.

Very quietly, we've actually seen a little bit chipping away at these things.

And then, you know, arguments where the Trump administration has been able to work out deals

where, okay, we feel like we have sufficient access to a foreign market we will

reduce our tariffs in response the US Japan trade deal got through this year was

ratified by the Japanese Diet which is what they call their legislature. It looks like they're all very slim.

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