Supremes Restore Sanity in Maine, The Big Beautiful Bill, Who Ran Biden's White House?
3 Martini Lunch
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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
First, after Jim details the unnerving tree incident, they cheer the U.S. Supreme Court for ending the punishment aimed at Maine state lawmaker Laurel Libby. Democrats barred her from debating or voting after she posted a photo of a male athlete winning a girls’ sporting event on Facebook. But while the court got it right, Jim explains why he's still alarmed by the verdict.
Next, they dig into the good, the bad, and the uncertainty surrounding the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill to make the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent and add many other provisions. There is a lot to like in the bill but there is also some disappointment concerning the tax code and what blue state Republicans want to include before supporting the legislation.
Finally, they wince as the new book on Joe Biden's cognitive decline reveals the figures who were really running the country while Biden infirmities got worse and worse. And Jim stresses that none of these supposedly breathtaking revelations are actually news. It's just that some reporters and political operatives are confirming what we already knew now that there's no political benefit to covering for Biden.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.5 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.8 | Hey, really glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:16.5 | We've got a lot to get to today. |
| 0:18.4 | We'll tell you more about what we've learned about who was really |
| 0:20.8 | running the country while Joe Biden couldn't. We'll also talk about the big beautiful bill, |
| 0:26.5 | the good parts and the frustrating parts, as we still don't know if the Republicans will have |
| 0:29.9 | enough votes to pass it in the House here in the next 24 to 48 hours. And we'll talk about a |
| 0:35.6 | very much common sense decision from the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 0:39.3 | on an issue stemming out of Maine. But we have to lead today with what I've alluded to a |
| 0:45.5 | couple of times in the past couple days, because Jim Garrity is back. Jim is back from a saga |
| 0:51.1 | he would much prefer not to be part of over the weekend his house was struck by |
| 0:57.5 | a tree a big tree and so the last couple days have been spent removing that tree and there's going to be |
| 1:03.5 | more work to go so jim we're glad you're safe but uh what in the world happen here well you know |
| 1:08.6 | gregg very often in this program we have sponsors and more than one. |
| 1:12.4 | Ironically, my absence the last two days had a sponsor as well. |
| 1:16.4 | Jim's absence was brought to you by fast falling trees. |
| 1:19.9 | When you absolutely positively need one corner of your house destroyed. |
| 1:24.0 | In fact, as I'm looking at the video, I bet you can see the tarp on the upper level behind me. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:30.5 | My wife is out of town. |
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