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Red States Cutting Taxes, Hunter’s ‘Illusion of Access,’ Mysterious Land Grab

August 1, 2023 by GregC

Listen to “Red States Cutting Taxes, Hunter’s ‘Illusion of Access,’ Mysterious Land Grab” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg as they cheer red states for cutting state income taxes and moving towards eliminating them altogether. Then Jim blasts the “epic gaslighting” of Democrats like New York Rep. Dan Goldman for insisting Hunter Biden called his father during business meetings only to say hello and talk about the weather – that Hunter was really only offering the illusion of access to his dad, who was vice-president at the time. Finally, they’re unnerved as a mysterious firm pays $800 million to buy 52,000 acres of land near a California military base.

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Filed Under: China, congress, Conservatism, Constitution, Economy, Elections, Foreign Policy, History, Humor, Journalism, Justice Department, law, News & Politics, School Choice, Spending, Taiwan, Taxes, Ukraine Tagged With: #DevonArcher, #HunterBiden, #illusionofaccess, 3MartiniLunch, California, China, GOP, states, taxes, TravisAFB

Student Debt Sanity, Biden’s Business Dealings, State GOP Crises

July 24, 2023 by GregC

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Join Jim and Greg as they are pleasantly stunned that Americans overwhelmingly support the Supreme Court ruling blocking President Biden’s unilateral forgiveness of student loan debt. And for those who feel strongly on the issue, the results are even more lopsided. They also dig into the latest allegations that President Biden not only knew about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, but was actively involved in dozens of phone calls with his business partners. Finally, they cringe as state Republican parties in four key states are in major financial trouble or mired in intraparty bickering – and another big state may be in that condition soon.
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Filed Under: Business, congress, Constitution, Education, Elections, History, Humor, Journalism, law, News & Politics, polls, Social Media, Supreme Court Tagged With: #studentdebtrelief, 2024, 3MartiniLunch, Archer, Biden, GOP, Hunter, poll, SCOTUS, states

GOP Chance in Oregon, Red State Jobs Boom, Stelter Out at CNN

August 19, 2022 by GregC

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It’s all good martinis today! Join Jim and Greg as they welcome news that the Oregon governor’s race is a toss-up thanks to a former Democrat running as an independent. They also celebrate news that the strong hiring numbers we’ve seen in the wake of the pandemic are overwhelmingly powered by Republican-led states. And they discuss why it was long past time for Brian Stelter to be shown the door at CNN after constantly turning a program designed to objectively evaluate the media into a cheerleading session for the left.

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Filed Under: COVID-19, Economy, Elections, Entertainment, History, Humor, Journalism, News & Politics Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, CNN, GOP, Governor, jobs, media, Oregon, states, Stelter

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe v. Wade

June 24, 2022 by GregC

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Join Jim and Greg as they break down the monumental U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions that had declared a constitutional right to an abortion. They welcome the ruling as being correct from a constitutional perspective and for the good it will do in saving lives.  They also note that not much immediately changes on abortion law and that the 50 states will now determine how they each approach the issue.

In addition, they point out the Homeland Security warning about widespread violence as a result of the ruling, and Jim highlights how the decision of a justice who strongly supported abortion contributed significantly to Friday’s verdict.

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Filed Under: Abortion, congress, Constitution, Elections, Health Care, History, Humor, law, News & Politics, Supreme Court Tagged With: #DayofRage, 3MartiniLunch, abortion, Alito, Dobbs, Ginsburg, Roberts, Roe, SCOTUS, states, Thomas

Escape from New York, Cuomo’s Vaccine Bullying, Kamala & ‘Fweedom’

January 5, 2021 by GregC

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Join Jim and Greg as they discuss eye-opening numbers of Americans fleeing deep blue states and heading for places with more freedom. They also unload on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for threatening major fines for not giving out vaccines soon enough and vowing even bigger penalties for giving vaccines to groups who shouldn’t be getting them yet. And they roll their eyes at yet another Kamala Harris story about herself that seems impossible to believe.

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Filed Under: COVID-19, Economy, Elections, Health Care, History, Humor, News & Politics Tagged With: Cuomo, fweedom, georgia, Kamala Harris, moving, National Review, Senate, states, Three Martini Lunch, vaccines

GOP’s Legislative Win, Sowing Distrust in the System, Ready for Georgia Runoffs?

November 5, 2020 by GregC

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Join Jim and Greg as they celebrate Republicans doing much better than expected at the state legislative level just in time for redistricting. They also discuss the ongoing controversies in multiple swing states and how the vote counting is creating a lot of mistrust in the integrity of the vote. And they look at the updated Georgia numbers, which suggest two U.S. Senate races are headed to runoffs and the results could well determine the majority.

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Filed Under: congress, Elections, History, Humor, Journalism, News & Politics, Podcasts, polls Tagged With: elections, georgia, integrity, legislatures, National Review, redistricting, runoffs, Senate, states, Three Martini Lunch, vote counting

Assessing the Coronavrus Response

March 31, 2020 by GregC

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The debate over the federal response to the coronavirus threat has been raging for weeks but what goes into a response of this scope? How do the different agencies coordinate, how do the feds collaborate with the states, and how does the private sector partner with the government so seamlessly?

Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner addresses these questions and more in this interview with Radio America’s Greg Corombos.

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What Should We Expect from Our Government on Coronavirus?

February 27, 2020 by GregC

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Coronavirus fears have the markets badly spooked and some Americans wondering how it may impact their daily lives in the weeks to come.

But as the Trump administration prepares to deal with the issue, what can we reasonably expect our government to do in a situation like this and what is beyond its control? How aggressive should it be in pressing China for accurate data? How tough is it for the feds to keep tabs on what 50 state government are doing? And how much responsibility lies with us as citizens?

Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner addresses all of these questions with Greg Corombos and she also flatly rejects media suggestions that coronavirus is proof that we need government-run health care. In fact, she says it proves just the opposite.

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Why Didn’t Republicans Get Health Care Reform Done?

July 9, 2019 by GregC

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In the second part of our interview with American Commitment President Phil Kerpen, we examine why Republicans failed to coalesce around a health care reform bill despite controlling the House, Senate, and White House and having seven years to prepare.

Kerpen explains how close Republicans came on multiple occasions and why they landed on the best approach when it was too late.

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‘Health Reform is Not Dead’

June 15, 2018 by GregC

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Grassroots activists and state officials are making another push to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, and a leading figure in the effort believes there is a 50-50 chance it can get passed before the midterm elections.

“Health reform is not dead,” said Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner, who has been working with other activists to revive the effort ever since the Senate failed to advance legislation last summer.  They plan to hold a press conference outlining their reform principles this coming week.

“Next Wednesday afternoon, here in Washington, with a number of governors, state legislators and others,” she said.

Turner says this new approach builds upon a last-minute effort by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., that would move much of the authority to make health care policy out of Washington.

“It’s based upon the chassis of Graham-Cassidy with block grants to the states but with a lot of refinements that make this a much better bill,” said Turner.  “We need to move resources and authority back to the states to heal their health insurance markets that have been broken by Obamacare.”

What would her preferred legislation actually look like?

“Basically we’re saying this money that’s currently going to insurance companies, dumping more and more money into Medicaid, these sort of open-ended entitlements.  Let us turn those into a block grant and distribute that money among the different states and give them more flexibility in how they spend that money in order to provide better choices for health insurance and lower costs,” said Turner.

Turner says there would still be federal subsidies associated with the plan to help people afford private, commercially available health insurance.  There would also be funds for patients facing chronic illness or major events like organ transplants.

She adds that the individual market was badly hurt by Obamacare, despite endless promises to the contrary.

“We actually have no more people covered in the individual market today than we did before Obamacare passed.  We spent all this money.  We have turned our health care system upside down and no [additional[ people have private health insurance.

“Yes, there are more people covered (overall), but the great majority of them are on Medicaid which, as we know, is a terrible program for people,” said Turner, noting Medicaid patients have a terrible time finding primary physicians who will see them and certain specialists are also almost impossible to get.”

She says legislation grounded in the ideas she is pushing would open many more doors for patients.

“People need the option of private coverage, quality coverage, that gives them not only access to coverage, but actually access to care,” said Turner.

But will activism among the grassroots and the state level get Congress to take up this issue so close to Election Day?

“We believe the Senate is going to take our recommendations seriously and hopefully we’ll be able to move this forward.  We think there are a lot of forces that are going to bring them back to health reform this summer, even though they’d really like to do something else,” said Turner.

Turner is also buoyed by the news that the Senate will remain in session for most of August and is confident Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring the issue to the floor if he knows there are 50 votes to pass it.  Republicans would once again need to approve the reconciliation process for the debate since there is no chance of getting 60 votes for the legislation.

We think it won’t be very hard to get it through the House.  The Senate is really where the focus will be over the next several weeks,” said Turner.

“I’m pretty optimistic.  I’d give it a 50-50 chance, which is a lot more than most people on Capitol Hill would give it,” she said.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: block grants, choice, congress, insurance, Medicaid, news, Obamacare, states

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