The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” —Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

For the record: “Conflating a 93-year-old man’s actions with those of Weinstein and others, to lump it in with the #metoo Twitter campaign, is just wrong. Then again, we’re now politicizing the deaths of American soldiers, with lawmakers in cowboy hats calling the president a liar over whether he remembered the slain soldier’s name, so perhaps it’s just the times. And sad times they are, indeed.” —Joseph Curl

Victimhood award: “[Rep. Frederica Wilson] spent this week in [her Florida] district because of concerns about her safety in the aftermath of the feud that President Trump started with her. … Calls have run the gamut from racist and rude to outright menacing. It is only because of these extraordinary circumstances that to her dismay she did not travel to Washington to vote.” —Joyce Jones, Wilson’s spokeswoman, on the feud that Wilson started for political gain

Belly laugh of the week: “[The Uranium One probe] is a partisan effort to distract. It’s a partisan effort aligned with what the White House has been urging, and Fox and Breitbart, and which there was no consultation with the Democrats in Congress. And I think that tells you all need to know about whether this is good faith or not.” —Rep. Adam Schiff

Dud of a bombshell: “While I have never publicly discussed it before today, I have been aware for some time that I was targeted by Russian operatives whose interests were aligned with Donald Trump.” —Rep. Maxine Waters

And last… “As special counsel, Mueller has conflicts all over the place, including his personal ties to Comey (who was Mueller’s favorite to succeed him at the FBI in 2013) and by the fact that he headed the FBI during the time that Hillary was engaged in soliciting donations, selling access to the office of the secretary of state, and officially approving the highly questionable Uranium One deal. … It’s time to let special counsel Robert Mueller go, and dismantle the Russian investigation he leads.” —Investor’s Business Daily