January 29, 2024

Monday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Karine Jean-Pierre, Ali Zaidi, Gavin Newsom, Brandon Johnson, and more.

The BIG Lie

“Inflation has now fallen back to pre-pandemic levels. … Wages and household wealth are higher than before the pandemic. In 2023 we also saw prices fall for key household purchases.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Hot Air

“The science is clear. Climate change is the existential threat of our time.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“[Biden] listens to the science. He follows the facts. … He deals with these near-term challenges without taking our eye off the ball on the existential threat we all face.” —White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi

Lack of Self-Awareness

“At this point now I believe we’re looking at 25,000 Palestinians that have been killed during this war and the killing has to stop. So yes, we need a cease-fire.” —Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (“Netanyahu should call for a ceasefire in Chicago.” —David Harsanyi)

Belly Laugh of the Day

“That’s the character and decency of the Democratic Party — that we support people even if they didn’t support us in the election.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom

For the Record

“The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now. President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration.” —Texas Governor Greg Abbott

“The adjective ‘Orwellian’ can be overused in our political discourse. But how else to describe a situation in which the federal government abdicates its responsibility to secure the nation’s wide-open border and then, when a state steps up to help stanch the bleeding, is told by that same federal government to stop — and, for good measure, that its efforts to help secure the border via a new razor wire barrier will be undone?” —Josh Hammer

“It’s time for America to wake up and smell the incompetence: The border is wide open. I read somewhere that if the White House were a football team and performed like this, we would’ve already fired the coach, the athletic director, and the mascot.” —Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

“If congressional Republicans would legislate a DOJ requirement to maintain a national database of violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants, the public sentiments against the border invasion would have overcome the Demos’ political resistance to border security years ago.” —Mark Alexander

Re: The Left

“Egotists like WEF founder Klaus Schwab and his God-complex, like-minded cronies across the globe never consider that they could be wrong about anything. But they are always wrong about something.” —Laura Hollis

“A CNN headline tells us that all these ‘brutal’ Leftmedia layoffs are ‘raising questions about the future of journalism.’ No, they’re answering questions about the history of journalism.” —Nate Jackson

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