January 16, 2025

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Dan Crenshaw, and more.

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“We endorsed [LA Mayor] Karen Bass. I think right now … that’s a mistake. And we admit that.” —Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong

Pot Calling the Kettle Black

“House Republicans claim to have a historic mandate. Ok. Where is their plan to lower the high cost of groceries?” —House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries discussing the high cost of groceries brought about by Bidenflation

Missing Context

“A conflict monitor has identified Israel as being responsible for the majority of the world’s civilian deaths and injuries during wartime throughout 2024.” —Newsweek (Hamas purposefully hides behind women and children to inflate the casualty numbers and exploit useful idiots.)

For the Record

“Who is Hamas to make demands? Hamas started the war with a brutal terrorist attack, and Israel has nearly destroyed Hamas. The only ‘deal’ is for Hamas to surrender unconditionally and return ALL the hostages.” —Senator Tom Cotton

“Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal is emblematic of his feckless leadership style: naivety blended with arrogance and sheer stupidity, reactive rather than proactive, more concerned with political optics than real-world outcomes, and utterly devoid of accountability.” —Ian Haworth

“Out of the triumphalism out of the end of the long Cold War emerged a bipartisan consensus, and this consensus was … that all mankind was destined to abandon national sovereignty and national identity and would instead become one human family, and citizens of the world. This wasn’t just a fantasy; we now know it was a dangerous delusion.” —Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio

Upright

“I wanted to throw my shoes at the TV watching one Democrat after another grilling Bondi about how essential it is to maintain the independence of the Justice Department and to resist politicization from the White House. We have suffered through years of the most hyper-politicized FBI and weaponized Justice Department in modern history! … If Pam Bondi purges and prosecutes Deep State partisan hacks, and I hope she does, that’s not ‘revenge.’ It’s accountability.” —Gary Bauer

“Ultimately, under President Trump, the top priority of the United States Department of State must be and will be the United States. The direction he has given for the conduct of our foreign policy is clear: Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, and every policy we pursue must be justified with the answer to three simple questions: Does it make America safer? Does it make America stronger? Does it make America more prosperous?” —Marco Rubio

“I don’t want a Republican Department of Justice. I don’t want a Democrat Department of Justice. I want a Department of Justice that follows the d*mn law. ” —Senator Ted Cruz

Re: The Left

“If Pete Hegseth had shown up in a dress and claimed to be a woman, Democrats would’ve had no questions and immediately confirmed him.” —Tim Young

“If George Washington was nominated to be secretary of Defense today, Democrats would oppose his nomination because someone had a picture of him praying at Valley Forge on government time.” —Gary Bauer

“206 Democrats voted to allow women and girls to face biological men and boys on the field of physical competition. So much for women’s equality from the ‘party of women’s rights.’” —Congressman Dan Crenshaw

Fact-Check: True

“Different occupational tendencies don’t make men and women better or worse than one another — just different. We don’t ‘need’ more female loggers any more than we ‘need’ more male librarians.” —Rich Lowry

And Last

“Reality must not be allowed to intrude on feminist fantasies about girl cops, girl firemen and girl soldiers.” —Ann Coulter

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