GOP Governors Top Fiscal Ratings, Israeli Strike Plans Leaked Again, Social Security & Walz’s Mom

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg as they discuss how Republican governors do much better than Democrats on fiscal policy, the infuriating leak of Israel's plans to strike Iran, and why Tim Walz is so reluctant to help his own mother.

First, they analyze the CATO Institute report card, which grades 48 U.S. governors on controlling spending and improving tax policies. Notably, all six governors receiving an 'A' were Republicans, while all six earning an 'F' were Democrats, including Tim Walz. Jim and Greg explore the reasons behind these results and highlight a few surprising names on the list.

Next, frustration mounts over the leak of classified Israeli military plans to strike Iran. This follows previous instances of U.S. officials being caught off guard by successful Israeli strikes in the Middle East. Jim explains how several key figures in the Biden administration are far too cozy with Iran and wonders why allies would share sensitive material with us in the future.

Finally, they address Tim Walz’s recent comments in North Carolina about his mother’s reliance on Social Security for basic needs. Jim and Greg explain how Social Security is intended as a supplement to your retirement plan and wonder why Walz allows his mother to live in such a precarious financial situation. This is at least the second time Walz has referred to leaving his elderly mom to fend for herself. He also made her go home and live by herself after heart surgery during COVID because he feared negative headlines if he brought her to his home.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:04.7	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:09.4	Three Martini's coming up.
0:11.8	And glad you're with us for the Monday edition. Three Martini's coming up.
0:17.0	Hey, glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the Three Martini lunch. We've got good, bad, and crazy Martini's to start the week off with you.
0:20.0	First of all, thank you so much for all of your fun tweets in response to our 14-year
0:26.6	anniversary special as well as the commentary we had on Doris and Deborah and the fundraising
0:31.9	emails on Friday.
0:33.2	Fascinating to know how many of you also get way too many fundraising emails and also with the wrong names.
0:38.0	So that is not at all uncommon apparently and it seems like everybody starts with a D.
0:43.4	It's from the D's for the D's.
0:45.9	That's, so first of all everybody's phone used to be owned by a Democrat apparently.
0:49.7	Is that how this text messages work?
0:52.4	And the second thing, just the recognition that like... that this can't have a great return on the investment right they're just
0:55.0	they're just spamming all the time to people's phones who are probably you know may well never donated to any
1:04.3	candidate and they hate it and they delete it or they send back snarky messages like I do
1:10.0	like this can't this can't be a good idea This can't be cost effective or worthwhile.
1:14.0	But apparently they keep doing it.
1:16.0	No, it's amazing. And Doris got another email, series of emails actually over the weekend.
1:19.0	My favorite one was from Tim Walls, who wanted to give Kamala a birthday present, because a birthday was over
1:25.2	the weekend, and the birthday present he wanted to give her was the list of people who have
1:29.6	recently donated to the campaign, and Doris is not on there yet and I'm sorry to tell
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