The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Truth and news are not the same thing.” —Katharine Graham (1917-2001)

For the record: “Ironically, people on the left who are preoccupied with the presumably unhappy childhoods of murderers, which they can do nothing about, seldom show similar concern about the present and future unhappy childhoods of the orphans of people who have been murdered.” —Thomas Sowell

Upright: “Trump is a business guy, and I think he’s going to tilt towards finding [a] way to use fiscal policy … to move the economy forward. … Let’s give him a shot. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt; see if we can find common ground. I think that’s what’s best for African-Americans.” —BET founder and Democrat operative Bob Johnson

Red alert: “[P]ulling the fire alarm right now is what I’m doing in the Democratic Party. I believe we’re in denial of what’s happened, I’m pulling the fire alarm because the house is burning down, and we better get our act together or we’re going to cease being a national party. We’re going to be a regional party that fails to get into the majority and fails to do things on behalf of those working class people [who] were the backbone of the Democratic Party for so long.” —Rep. Tim Ryan, who is vying to replace Nancy Pelosi as House minority leader

Non Compos Mentis: “I am extremely proud of the fact that over eight years we have not had the kinds of scandals that have plagued other administrations.” —Barack Obama

Foreign policy disaster: “I am not optimistic about the short-term prospects in Syria. Once Russia and Iran made a decision to back Assad in a brutal air campaign and essentially a pacification of Aleppo, regardless of the potential for civilian casualties, children being killed or wounded, schools or hospitals being destroyed, then it was very hard to see a way in which even a trained and committed moderate opposition could hold its ground for long periods of time.” —Barack Obama (Amazing how his optimism changes as soon as he’s leaving office…)

And last… “The left freaking out and overreacting about Trump is normalizing him because that’s what they’d do about any Republican.” —Frank Fleming