Dumb & Dumber

“The failed war on drugs has ruined lives, broken up families and decimated communities. Everyday Americans have been aggressively prosecuted, convicted and sentenced for nonviolent offenses. Thank you President Biden for commuting thousands of these sentences.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

“We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration. This is what 21st-century fascism is starting to look like.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The BIG Lie

“The United States is in a stronger, more secure position [than four years ago].” —National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

Disconcerting

“He looks at me stunned … and he said, ‘I didn’t do that.’ And I said, ‘Mr President, yes, you did. It was an executive order like three weeks ago.’ And he goes, ‘No, I didn’t do that.’ … He was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing, because I thought, ‘We’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country?’” —House Speaker Mike Johnson after a meeting with Joe Biden, during which he asked him why he’d halted LNG exports to Europe

For the Record

“Joe Biden, his leftist cronies, their liberal judges, and their billionaires are doing everything they can to redefine free speech as speech they agree with and to redefine speech they don’t like as hate speech or misinformation.” —Gary Bauer

“The ‘democracy’ the left wants is a ‘democracy’ in which only one view — theirs — is heard day after day, month after month, year after year. Their willingness to use federal law enforcement as a tool to attack free speech should send a chill down the spine of every patriotic American.” —Gary Bauer

“Shunned eight years ago by his presidential predecessors, by Wall Street and by incumbent leaders in just about every establishment institution, Trump will be inaugurated this time with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg on the podium. Leaders of the past, meet the wave of the future.” —Michael Barone

And Last

“Joe Biden’s upcoming biography must be a scratch and sniff book.” —Mark Alexander