The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

For the Record

“Imagine for a moment that one Boeing 757 with approximately 300 people on board crashed every single day. That would be a national emergency. A door blew off a jet recently, and everyone was justifiably upset. Federal bureaucrats jumped into action. Well, what do you think we would be doing if one passenger jet crashed, killing everyone on board, day after day after day? That’s essentially what’s happening with the epidemic of drug overdoses that is fueled by the left’s open borders policies. But our elites and the neo-Marxist left won’t do a thing to stop it.” —Gary Bauer

“If the Biden administration would spend as much time fighting illegal immigration as it does fighting border states that are actually trying to do something about the problem, we might begin to see some progress.” —Hans von Spakovsky

“Biden’s fundamental [border] problem is that he’s asking for a congressional solution to a problem created by the executive.” —Matthew Continetti

The BIG Lies

“Two months ago, my team [began] to work with a bipartisan group of senators to put together the toughest, smartest, fairest border security bill in history. … If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.” —Joe Biden

“This idea that there’s no vetting and there’s no proper immigration enforcement going on at the border just does not comport with reality.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“Well, it’s just not true. It’s a political talking point.” —Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) when asked, “What do you make of … the notion that President Biden already has [border] tools and he doesn’t need more yet?”

“[Greg Abbott] is making it harder for Border Patrol to do their jobs.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Non Compos Mentis

“The U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia. We Somalians must have the confidence in ourselves that we call the shots in the U.S.” —Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

“Our deepest condolences, obviously our deepest condolences go out, and our heartfelt condolences go out to the families who lost, uh, three, three brave- uh- three brave- uh three brave-va-va- THREE folks who are military folks who are brave who are always fighting and are fighting on behalf of, uh, this administration, the American people obviously moreso, more importantly.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“Let’s not impugn the good work of a whole agency [UNRWA] because of the potential bad actions here by a small number.” —John Kirby

The BIG Lies, Continued

“We’ve taken action over the last three years to hold Iran accountable for a range of destabilizing activities.” —John Kirby

“Donald Trump’s campaign chairman was secretly meeting with Russian intelligence and giving them their internal polling data while Russian intelligence was helping their campaign. Everybody other than Donald Trump recognizes, ‘OK, that’s certainly collusion.’” —Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA)

“Inflation is coming down. … But for all we’ve done to bring prices down, there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation.” —Joe Biden

“Our economy has grown more in the last six months than it ever did in any point in Trump’s entire four years in office.” —Joe Biden

“Trump’s $2 trillion tax cut when he was president benefitted the super wealthy but was never paid for, and it completely blew up the federal deficit. We’ve brought that deficit down. And all the progress we’ve made comes down to a simple proposition: Promises made and promises kept.” —Joe Biden

“President Biden now has this track record of success where significant progress has been made. Wages are up. Gas prices are down. The stock market is up. Inflationary pressure is down. … More than 14 million good-paying jobs have been brought about during the Biden economy.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

Delusions of Grandeur

“It’s not even a complicated campaign. We have the receipts. We have the best three-year record of any modern American presidency. Period, full stop. And you look at the issue, issue by issue, they poll overwhelmingly. The American people support what Biden has done. … And of course the economic strategy … were all things Republicans dreamt of, but never delivered. He’s delivered.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom

“Who in their right mind would want to run when you have someone of such esteem as our incumbent president?” —Gavin Newsom

“We still have work to do to bring down prices, but the work we have done has been historic in terms of strengthening the economy.” —Kamala Harris

“You have in Joe Biden and what we have accomplished as an administration competence, compassion, skill, and performance.” —Kamala Harris

“I, maybe with a bit of bravado, will repeat what I think we all say — so goes California, goes the nation.” —Kamala Harris

Hot Air

“We want to make sure that people can turn the lights on, obviously, and we want to make sure that we are transitioning to clean energy so that we solve the climate crisis. And balancing that is something the Biden administration has been doing this entire time.” —Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm

“We are accelerating all of these clean technologies so that ultimately we do get to 100% clean electricity in the United States by 2035 and net zero by 2050.” —Jennifer Granholm