McConnell's Last Year as Leader, Newsom's Shady Favoritism, Trump vs. Biden at the Border
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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First, they react to Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing this will be his final year as Senate Republican leader. They break down McConnell's record on reshaping the U.S. Supreme Court by pushing through the nominations of Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett. They dig into his willingness to be the villain to protect other GOP members, but also the frustration conservatives have with his failure to fight harder for less spending and not being more aggressive on certain policy goals. And, of course, they preview the fight to replace McConnell as leader.
Then they document the shady exemption to California's new law raising the minimum wage for fast food workers from $16 to $20 per hour for establishments that bake their own bread on site and sell it individually. This seems to be a specific carve out for Gov. Gavin Newsom's friend and donor who owns a bunch of Panera franchises in the state.
Finally, they assess today's dueling border visits from Biden and Trump, what we can glean by the different areas of the border they are visiting, and why Biden's eagerness to reverse anything Trump did in office is coming back to bite him hardest at the border.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:04.6 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:09.4 | Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:11.6 | Very glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:17.0 | We've got good, bad, and crazy Martini's for you today. |
| 0:20.0 | And Jim, the big news yesterday, |
| 0:22.0 | although I wish she had done it a few hours |
| 0:24.0 | earlier because we had already recorded our Wednesday podcast by the time he |
| 0:28.0 | made this announcement but Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announcing after this year's election |
| 0:33.6 | so he'll no longer serve as Senate Republican leader. |
| 0:37.0 | So I stand before you today, Mr President, and my colleagues to say this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. However, I'll complete my job. My colleagues have given me until we select |
| 0:58.1 | a new leader in November and they take the helm next January. |
| 1:04.0 | And so, Jim, you're obviously getting all sorts of different reactions about this. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm looking at the 18 years of Mitch McConnell as Republican leader, |
| 1:12.0 | so there are literally young adults in this country who have not been alive for a different Republican leader. |
| 1:18.0 | I think if you look at his greatest moments, it's shepherding the Trump Supreme Court nominees through and stopping |
| 1:25.2 | Merrick Garland from becoming the replacement when Justice Scalia passed away, sticking with |
| 1:29.6 | Brett Kavanaugh, getting Amy Koney Barrett done in the last few weeks before the 2020 election. |
| 1:34.8 | On the legislative side, he was pretty good at party rules and thwarting Harry Reed where he could. |
| 1:40.3 | Keep in mind out of 18 years he was in the minority for 12 of those. |
| 1:43.7 | On the other hand I don't know that there was ever a huge fight against the |
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