The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence. Ignorance … lends itself to manipulation by the forces that mold public opinion.” —Will and Ariel Durant

Non Compos Mentis: “Impeachment is something that the framers of the Constitution provided for a time such as this and a president such as Trump. The president does not have to commit a crime to be impeached. … If this comes before the House, it won’t come before the House as a president who has been found guilty, but rather as a president who is alleged to have committed certain offenses that are onerous to the Constitution and that harm society. And what this president is doing is harming society.” —Rep. Al Green (D-TX)

Braying Jenny: “I believe, of course, that this president can be impeached, will be impeached, and certainly has committed the high crimes and misdemeanors that is [sic] identified by the Constitution as such that would qualify him for impeachment.” —Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)

Braying Jackass I: “I think we are in a crisis that is the third great crisis in American history.” —HBO’s Bill Maher

Braying Jackass II: “I [concur]. And I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better, because don’t forget: Donald Trump has the authority of the president of the United States in his hands, in terms of what he can do domestically here and as well as what he can do internationally, to try to distract attention."—former CIA Director John Brennan

And last… "Any horrific shooting that makes national news brings a predictable cacophony of calls from progressives for gun control. But what if the Left applied that logic to immigration? We’d be hearing a lot more demands for ‘immigrant control’ and ‘common-sense immigration restrictions.’ Instead, liberals tend to emphasize what they claim to be the relative rarity of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, even as they treat much more unusual events — like police killings of unarmed black people — as a national crisis. … If you are looking for consistency in politics, in other words, don’t hold your breath.” —Brendan Kirby