McConnell Won't Run Again, More Hamas Horrors, DOGE Cuts & 'Malicious Compliance'
3 Martini Lunch
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🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
First, they analyze Mitch McConnell’s decision to retire after 42 years in the Senate and 18 years as GOP leader, and they assess his performance. They credit McConnell for defending free speech, blocking left-wing policies, and confirming conservative judicial nominees. However, they criticize his failure to address federal spending and his lack of progress on conservative priorities during Republican control of the Senate.
Next, Inez and Greg express their outrage over the latest atrocities perpetrated by Hamas, including a gruesome ceremony involving the return of hostages' remains and reports detailing how the two young brothers who were brutally murdered. In addition, the remains of their mother, Shiri Bibas, were excluded from the return to Israel. With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing reprisals, Inez and Greg reflect on the critical details of the Bibas family's abduction and the role of the Red Cross in facilitating the spectacle we saw this week.
Inez and Greg discuss government-run sites making DOGE-related budget cuts as painful as possible for visitors. They highlight three instances of "malicious compliance" and recall past government shutdown tactics used by Democrats to needlessly inconvenience the public.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.2 | So glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:16.8 | We've once again made it to the end of the week. |
| 0:18.7 | As you know, Jim Garrity is away. |
| 0:20.8 | He is in Ukraine. |
| 0:22.1 | If you're not reading the morning jilt, you really need to. |
| 0:24.6 | Here in his place, once again today is Annes Stetman of the Independent Women's Forum. |
| 0:28.7 | And we've got three more martinis for you today, as we'll discuss what most of us were expecting. |
| 0:33.1 | Mitch McConnell to announce he will not be running for re-election in 2026. The many twists and turns in the Hamas |
| 0:40.2 | return of remains of hostages, and one of them wasn't even a hostage. We'll get into all of that. |
| 0:46.3 | And then the compliance, the malignant compliance with the orders coming from the Trump |
| 0:51.9 | administration as a result of the work of Doge. |
| 0:55.0 | So let's move into our first martini and yesterday on the Senate floor on his 83rd birthday, no less, |
| 1:01.9 | a longtime Senate Republican leader, he's not anymore, but longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announcing he will not be a candidate next year. |
| 1:09.8 | Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate. |
| 1:15.8 | Every day. |
| 1:17.2 | In between, I've been humbled by the trust they placed in me to do their business right here. |
| 1:39.1 | Representing our commonwealth has been the honor of the lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my life. |
| 1:46.2 | Well, and as you learned yesterday, Andrew Cuomo is one of my favorite impressions, |
| 1:49.8 | but right up there with it is Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor. |
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