The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

Keen sense of the obvious: “[ObamaCare was] put on the table, quickly passed, jammed through, sent to the Senate, and it didn’t work.” —Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

Non Compos Mentis: “I think the [Trump] rhetoric to date has frankly stepped over the line… It’s given North Korea a reason to say, ‘Hey, we need to bomb.’” —John Kerry (“ I wonder who was Secretary of State while the North Koreans advanced their nuke program.” —Ben Shapiro)

A fight for the long haul: “For those who are telling me to shut up … you know what I tell them? Go to hell. I’m gonna tell my story.” —Donna Brazile

For the record: “We were not offered veto power on staff at the DNC, I can tell you that. This was a laundering operation. They’d go to fundraisers, they’d get a $350,000 check from donors, which was supposed to be divvied up. Instead of disbursing that money, they’d turn around and run a small-dollar fundraising to generate small contributions that went to the Clinton campaign.” —former Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver

Thanks, Captain Obvious: “We have to earn the trust of the voters, and during the process of the Democratic primary, we fell short in that, undeniably.” —DNC Chairman Tom Perez

Braying Jackass: “Enough with the prayin’. Time to start legislatin’.” —Stephen King on Sunday’s church shooting

Alpha Jackass: “Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God, and while doing so, get shot in [sic] killed. What country? America. Why? Republicans.” —Chelsea Handler

And last… “The shooter was a hostile atheist who mocked people offering ‘thoughts and prayers.’ Sounds like a lot of Hollywood Twitter activists.” —Erick Erickson