Useful Idiots

“I will not attend Netanyahu’s speech. Following Hamas’ horrific attack, Netanyahu’s war strategy killed 12,000+ women and children, inflicted widespread starvation, and prioritized his political survival over the release of hostages. He should not have a platform before Congress.” —Senator Jeff Markley (D-OR)

“I will stand by Israel, but I will not stand and cheer its current Prime Minister at [today’s] Joint Session. … Israel’s execution of its war in Gaza under the direction of Prime Minister Netanyahu with 39,000 Palestinians dead and 90,000 injured is a brutal strategy beyond any acceptable level of self-defense.” —Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

“Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.” —Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

“Benjamin Netanyahu is the worst leader in Jewish history since the Maccabean king who invited the Romans into Jerusalem over 2100 years ago. … [Today’s] address is the next step in a long line of manipulative bad-faith efforts by Republicans … and is a cynical stunt by Netanyahu.” —Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY)

“Congress will undertake political theater on behalf of the State Department. The purpose of having Netanyahu address Congress is to bolster his political standing in Israel and to quell int'l opposition to his war. I don’t feel like being a prop so I won’t be attending.” —Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY)

Delusions of Grandeur

“In one term, [Joe Biden] has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who served two terms in office.” —Kamala Harris

“[Kamala Harris] has been a part of this historically effective administration.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

For the Record

“Where will Biden stand in the history books? He wasn’t a failed president because of his declining cognitive abilities. It was his policies that wrecked America. … This was a man who pledged to unite the country and did just the opposite. He deserves to go down in history as one of the five worst presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries.” —Stephen Moore

“History will remember Joe Biden as … one of the worst presidents in the United State of America. But … Kamala Harris is a million times worse, and everybody knows it. She signed up for every single one of Joe Biden’s failures, and she lied about his mental capacity to serve as president.” —Republican VP nominee J.D. Vance

Theater of the Absurd

“I never saw any episode or incident with Joe Biden as we saw on that debate stage. I don’t think that there is a huge cover-up underway here, and I frankly don’t think that matters.” —Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Something that I think hasn’t gotten much coverage is [Kamala Harris’s] passion … for securing and stabilizing the middle class.” —Sen. Chris Coons

Dumb & Dumber

“The Republicans in 2024, their first instinct is just to be racist and sexist. I guess that’s like a tic that they have developed at this point. … When all else fails, just try racism.” —The New York Times’s Mara Gay

“It’s going to be very important that … we brace ourselves for some of the unfair, misogynistic, and racial undertones, overtones, explicit attacks, and implicit attacks that [Kamala Harris] may be subject to.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Political Futures

“We are still almost six months away from the end of Joe Biden’s first (and last) presidential term. And even a boiled potato can do immeasurable damage with too much power and six months of unsupervised wiggle room. … If Joe Biden can no longer run for president, he is not capable of being president. It’s that simple.” —Ian Haworth

“If the president is mentally unfit to campaign, he is mentally unfit to have the nuclear codes.” —Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC)

“I have never understood why Republicans always concentrate their fire on their Democratic opponent while ignoring virtually any mention of the threat posed by the Democratic Party and the Left. … ‘The destructive, dangerous Democratic Party has to go.’ That should be — and should have been for decades — the message of every Republican candidate for every office in the land.” —Dennis Prager

And Last…

“All the people now telling you Harris is awesome are the same people who told you there was nothing wrong with Biden last month.” —Erick Erickson