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Russian Interference Debunked, Biden’s Classified Papers, Dems’ 2024 Fight

January 10, 2023 by GregC

Listen to “Russian Interference Debunked, Biden’s Classified Papers, Dems’ 2024 Fight” on Spreaker.

Join Jim & Greg as they discuss formal research into what we’ve known for years – that Russian social media memes made virtually no impact on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. They also react to reports that classified documents from President Biden’s days as vice president were discovered at his office at the University of Pennsylvania. And they pop some popcorn as Biden tries to pressure the Democrats to move Georgia up in the 2024 primary calendar, while New Hampshire and other states fight to stay at the front of the line.
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Filed Under: Elections, History, Humor, Intelligence, Journalism, News & Politics Tagged With: 2016, 2024, 3MartiniLunch, Biden, classified, democrats, documents, primaries, russia, Trump

Dem Primary Fight, Another EV Failure, Kanye & the Nazis

December 2, 2022 by GregC

Listen to “Dem Primary Fight, Another EV Failure, Kanye & the Nazis” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg as they welcome the DNC planning to shake up the order of the early primaries and enjoy watching the fight among states and political figures about what the order ought to be. They also sigh as Switzerland makes plans to restrict use of electric vehicles to essential activities if there is a major power emergency this winter. And they have plenty to say about the Kanye West debacle over Hitler and the Nazis.

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Filed Under: Climate, congress, Economy, Energy, History, Humor, Journalism, Military, News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2024, 3MartiniLunch, DNC, electric vehicles, Hitler, Kanye West, Nazis, primaries

King & Plame Lose, Politics of the Lockdown, WHO Knew China’s Lies

June 3, 2020 by GregC

Listen to “King & Plame Lose, Politics of the Lockdown, WHO Knew China’s Lies” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg as they reflect on Iowa Rep. Steve King losing his GOP primary and Valerie Plame going up in political flames in her congressional bid in New Mexico. With politicians cracking down on everyday social distance violators but encouraging the demonstrators to take to the streets in close quarters, just how much of our stay-at-home orders was politics and how much was about public health? And they welcome the World Health Organization close to reality as reports suggest it knew about China’s lies and stalling tactics in the critical early days of the pandemic.

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Filed Under: Elections, Foreign Policy, Health Care, News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: China, coronavirus, King, lockdown, National Review, Plame, primaries, protesters, Three Martini Lunch, WHO

‘Alarm Bells Are Going Off in Democratic Circles’

February 20, 2020 by GregC

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As the Democratic presidential race looks ahead to the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, the South Carolina primary a week after that, and Super Tuesday just three days later, the fight for the nomination is quickly picking up momentum and rank and file Democrats are increasingly concerned that avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is on track to become the party’s standard bearer against President Trump.

Sanders narrowly won the popular vote in Iowa and New Hampshire and is a close second to Pete Buttigieg in the delegate race. But with several Democrats crowded in the non-Bernie lane, Sanders appears well positioned to pick up a lot of delegates over the next couple of weeks and beyond.

Democrats are very worried that a Sanders nomination would all but guarantee another four years for President Trump.

“Alarm bells are going off in Democratic circles. There’s no question about it,” said Larry Haas, who served as spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton and as communications director for Vice President Al Gore.

“And after last night and the view that Michael Bloomberg did not do as well as expected and that Bernie Sanders seemed to have a pretty clear field last night, other than some minor critiques of him, has only raised the alarm bells even more,” said Haas.

Listen to the full podcast to hear why Haas and many other Democrats believe Sanders is incapable of defeating President Trump, what Democrats think of Bloomberg and his big spending in this campaign, where the party lines up on the question of capitalism vs. socialism, and whether he believes the non-Bernie vote can consolidate around a single alternative.

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Filed Under: Economy, Elections, News & Politics, polls Tagged With: 2020, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, news, primaries

Steyer Set to Debate, Camp David Disaster, GOP Shies from Primaries

September 9, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad to see billionaire impeachment activist Tom Steyer lock in a spot in the October Democratic presidential debate – both to watch him push impeachment when the party wants none of it and to see better debates. They also react to President Trump planning a meeting with Taliban leaders at Camp David before abruptly cancelling at the last minute. Find out why Jim sees the Camp David invite as the “most morally abhorrent” mistake made by the Trump administration. And they scold Republican Party leaders in four states for planning to skip primaries and caucuses in 2020.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, Camp David, democrats, National Review, primaries, Republicans, Taliban, Three Martini Lunch, Tom Steyer, Trump

Erratic Kim Resurfaces, Dems Caught Rigging Again, Avowed Socialists Winning

May 16, 2018 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America serve up three bad martinis today.  They react to Kim Jong-Un’s pathetic attempt to get attention by threatening to cancel next month’s summit with the United States over military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea.  They also discuss revelations that Democrats are “rigging” primaries again as reports show the Democratic Congressional Committee (DCCC) is making polling data and email lists available to some candidates and not others.  And they note two literal socialists won Democratic primaries for the state legislature in Pennsylvania, suggesting socialism is becoming increasingly acceptable to voters on the left.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2018 midterms, DCCC, Kim Jong-Un, military exercises, National Review, North Korea, Pennsylvania, primaries, rigging, socialism, Three Martini Lunch

Trump-McConnell Spat Foreshadows Intense 2018 Primaries

August 9, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/8-9-viguerie-blog.mp3

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump are publicly exchanging barbs about what is reasonable to expect the Congress to accomplish, and longtime conservative activist Richard Viguerie says the the frustration is ure to boil over into the 2018 primary season.

The back-and-forth started on Monday, when Sen. McConnell told a Rotary Club audience that the GOP Congress is getting hammered by its base for accomplishing little because Trump has set aggressive expectations.

“Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” said McConnell.

“Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process,” he added.

Wednesday afternoon, Trump pushed back via Twitter.

“Senator Mitch McConnell said I had “excessive expectations,” but I don’t think so. After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?,” tweeted Trump.

Some in the Washington media circle characterize the dispute as signs of a Republican civil war or at least dysfunction.  Viguerie slightly disagrees.

“There’s probably not a lot of love lost between President Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell.  But the reality is they have to get along,” said Viguerie.

But Viguerie is quick to point out that the sharp divisions that emerged within the GOP in 2016 are still there.  He says GOP base voters will hold Republicans responsible for not repealing Obamacare after passing bills to do so in the Obama years, and he says Americans won’t care much about the specifics of why it didn’t happen.

He further asserts that even after seven years of vowing repeal, the GOP was still caught flat-footed in 2017 when the opportunity to do it came about.

“I suspect the number one reason is they didn’t think they’d be in the White House.  I think most of the Republicans from Washington felt that Hillary would win the election and, truth be told, a high percentage of them probably preferred Hillary Clinton to President Trump,” said Viguerie.

As a result, he suggests many Republicans are actively guarding the status quo.

“Quite frankly, they’re terrified that he may really  follow through on his promise to drain the swamp and pour salt over it so that nothing will ever grow there again,” said Viguerie.

“President Trump and candidate Trump campaigned strongly against the Washington establishment.  He called for draining of the swamp.  If anybody could be considered the mayor of the swamp, it would be Sen. Mitch McConnell,” said Viguerie.

And Viguerie says the fissures exposed during the 2016 GOP primary season will emerge again soon.

“This is a battle that is going to be taken into the 2018 primaries, where lots of Republicans are going to run against Sen. McConnell and the Washington establishment.  This is probably just the first few, early shots of a big battle between the establishment and the president,” said Viguerie.

He says that friction could imperil some important pieces of legislation throughout the rest of this Congress but that it would be wrong to declare this a do-nothing Congress.  Viguerie says judicial confirmations alone, from the Supreme Court to the appellate and district benches, will make a huge impact on America’s future.

And he says Republicans and conservatives can breathe easier over one other key factor.

“There will be many bad things that won’t happen because Hillary is not president,” said Viguerie.

A funny thing just happened on the way to this 2018 showdown, however.  While pro-Trump Republicans Roy Moore and Mo Brooks are challenging appointed GOP Sen. Luther Strange in this month’s Alabama primary in the race to fill the term of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Strange just won Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement.

“Senator Luther Strange has done a great job representing the people of the Great State of Alabama. He has my complete and total endorsement!” tweeted Trump on Tuesday.

Viguerie says grassroots conservatives should not read too much into that.

“He does need to have Mitch McConnell’s support and that of the Senate Republican leaders.  To go against an incumbent senator, even though he was appointed, would probably be a bridge too far,” said Viguerie.

But he says those special circumstances should not dampen expectations for a fierce intraparty fight in 2018.  Republican are defending just eight of the 33 races on the ballot, but Viguerie says there will be spirited fights to determine the nominations in many of those states.

“This unrest at the grassroots that Trump so successfully connected with and tied into in this last presidential election is just building steam.  We have a disruption that’s going on in American politics and I think we haven’t seen anything yet,” said Viguerie.

And Viguerie says that means tensions will only rise among the GOP factions over the next year.

“Not at all.  I think whatever unrest, distrust, disconnection between the grassroots Republican voters and their leaders is going to do nothing but grow.  The failure of the Republicans to repeal Obamacare just adds gasoline to that fire,” said Viguerie.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2018, expectations, McConnell, news, Obamacare, primaries, Swamp, Trump

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