The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

The BIG Lie

“Let’s be clear: The party that was focused on culture wars — the party that was focused on trans people — was the Republican Party.” —gender-confused Congressman-elect Sarah McBride

Non Compos Mentis

“Republicans want to kill your kids. It’s actually true.” —Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin

Demagogue

“I will not tolerate efforts that are part of misguided [border] policies that harm our communities, that threaten our communities, that terrorize our communities.” —Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs

Political Futures

“It used to be said that if someone looked over his shoulder, he was about to tell an insensitive joke. Now people are worried about being overheard making what should be commonsensical observations. … But the voting booth is private. No one can overhear you voting, or punish you for how you vote. And this surely is one of the reasons that Trump won. His candidacy was a rare opportunity to register an audible dissent from woke impositions that, otherwise, have had to be suffered in silence.” —Rich Lowry

“As the sun sets on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it’s premature for Democrats to think about the next presidential election until they rethink the kind of governors they elect in the largest, yet shrinking, blue states.” —Daniel McCarthy

For the Record

“Very much like the president-elect, [Matt] Gaetz can be a human wrecking ball. In my view, one is enough.” —Jack DeVine

Upright

“Every government agency or program has a charter or legislative authority that created it. People who run the cabinet departments and agencies should be brought before Congress and show evidence how they are living up to the purposes of the charters or legislation. If their work can be done at less cost and more efficiently by the private sector, they should be eliminated. That’s the pattern most businesses follow, and it should be the pattern for government.” —Cal Thomas

And Last…

“Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson

“The fact that men want to be in women’s bathrooms is creepy and disturbing.” —Lisa Boothe