February 5, 2024

Monday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Kathy Hochul, AOC, Karine Jean-Pierre, Victor Davis Hanson, and more.

The BIG Lie I

“My son spent a year in Iraq. That’s how I lost him.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lie II

“[Republicans] created this. … [Biden] has done everything Republicans have asked him to do. And now they keep moving the goalpost … because they realize they don’t really want to solve this. They like the chaos that it’s created.” —New York Governor Kathy Hochul regarding record illegal immigration

Useful Idiot

“The fact that this word [genocide] is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing." —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Baghdad Bobs

"Easing inflation, rising real pay is finally reaching families and they’re feeling it.” —Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein

“Bidenomics is working. … He’s going to continue lowering costs. … It takes a long time to make that connection.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Lack of Self-Awareness

“I have long believed we have to look at each other even in our most challenging times not as enemies but as fellow Americans. … My prayer, my hope is … that as a nation we continue to believe in honesty, decency, dignity, and respect.” —Joe Biden

For the Record

“The State Department is reportedly fast-tracking recognition of an ‘independent’ Arab state. … If Israel can’t stop weapons from infiltrating Gaza now, what does the situation look like when it is dealing with an ‘independent’ state? What does it look like when Iran becomes a nuclear power? What does it look like when the Islamic Jihad — or whatever group pops up to take its place — begins lobbing rockets at civilians? Israel will be compelled to act. Next time, it would be invading a territory recognized as a sovereign state by the U.S.” —David Harsanyi

“There is nothing ‘America First’ about mindlessly toppling foreign autocracies and seeking to transmogrify Islamist hellholes into shining Madisonian democracies. But there is also nothing ‘America First’ about shirking our solemn duty to protect and defend our own citizens and soldiers overseas. … Caring about the fate of our citizens taken hostage overseas and seeking retaliation for our soldiers murdered by an evil adversary regime overseas … is about the lowest-hanging fruit imaginable for any American who calls himself a patriot.” —Josh Hammer

“I don’t care if you’re a neocon, an isolationist or anything in between; there needs to be repercussions for murdering Americans. Tehran should be terrified of what comes next. I doubt they are.” —David Harsanyi

“When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.” —Victor Davis Hanson

Insight

“Socialism is, in its essence, an attack upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils.” —Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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