The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Projection

“I think that the president of the United States has set a tone where political violence is okay.” —Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D)

“We can survive a lot, bad policy, funky elections, there’s a bunch of stuff that we can overcome. We can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system, the awesome power of the state. You can’t have a situation in which, whoever’s in charge of the government, starts using that to go after their political enemies, or reward their friends, right?” —Barack Obama, criticizing Donald Trump after famously weaponizing the DOJ against him

A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut

“A black kid in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading by 4th grade as a black kid in California. … I mean, do we need to look a little bit less at what the Trump administration is doing … and look a little more in the mirror?” —New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof

For the Record

“[Jerome] Powell will be the first Fed chair to stay on the Fed’s Board of Directors in 50 years. This isn’t the way it’s done. It’s bad form. … Jerome can and should go home and write his memoir about how he attempted to undermine Trump every step of the way. It’s bound to be a bestseller.” —Stephen Moore

“Every time you get a new chairman, the former chairman leaves. That’s good news because what you don’t want are these philosophies in conflict, and I think Jay Powell is making a significant mistake… For the country and for the Fed, it would be best if he left.” —Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)

Useful Idiots

“Why would Democrat leaders, including Hakeem Jeffries, want people to think the United States is losing a military conflict? I can think of only one explanation — they know it would reflect badly on President Trump. … They want Americans to believe that Donald Trump is incompetent, doesn’t listen to his generals and has no idea what he is doing. That perfectly describes Joe Biden during his disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, not Donald Trump.” —Gary Bauer

Belly Laugh of the Day

“I can’t confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm [the Iranians] don’t.” —War Secretary Pete Hegseth

The Bottom Line

“No matter how you try to spin it, gerrymandering voting districts to make sure there is a majority of a ‘certain’ sort of person is as bad when you do it in a reparative manner as when you do it in a hostile manner.” —Christine Flowers

Re: The Left

“What is even more chilling than some of Justice Jackson’s jurisprudence is the fact that she is often cited as the model for Democrats seeking to pack the Court with an instant majority if they retake power. This and other dissents show why Democrats are confident that packing the court will yield lasting power.” —law professor Jonathan Turley

“Judge Zia Faruqui … just apologized to Trump’s attempted assassin Cole Allen for the way police restrained him. Just last year, this same judge dismissed the case against Edward Alexander Dana, who threatened to kill President Trump. We have a big problem.” —Joel Berry

And Last…

“The Woodrow Wilson Administration was the worst in all of American history…because it laid the foundation for all the worst ones after it.” —former Virginia House Delegate Nick Freitas