The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “The Democrats may remember their lines, but how quickly they forget the lessons of the past. I have witnessed five major wars in my lifetime, and I know how swiftly storm clouds can gather on a peaceful horizon. The next time a Saddam Hussein takes over Kuwait, or North Korea brandishes a nuclear weapon, will we be ready to respond? In the end, it all comes down to leadership, and that is what this country is looking for now.”

For the record: “The Democrats couldn’t confirm Barack Obama’s pick, Merrick Garland, for the late Antonin Scalia’s seat, yet President Donald Trump has two high-court picks and counting. These seats, by their reckoning, are therefore ‘stolen’ — although their disposition was subject to normal democratic processes. The Democrats could have had control of all the Supreme Court picks over the past several years if they’d managed to hold the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016. They could do neither.” —Rich Lowry

Resist! “It’s time for all of us on the left to recognize that Republicans have already destroyed the independence of our judicial system and turned it into yet another partisan battlefield — and then figure out how we’re going to start fighting back.” —ex-Sen. Al Franken

Narcissist in chief: “When you hear how great the economy is doing right now, let’s just remember when this recovery started.” —Barack Obama taking credit for Trump’s economic boom

Dumb and dumber: “We have to say yes to socialism — to the word and everything. We have to stop apologizing.” —Jim Carrey

And last… “On this day in 71B.C. the Thracian gladiator Spartacus was put to death by Marcus Licinius Crassus for disclosing confidential scrolls. When informed days later that in fact the Roman Senate had already publicly released the scrolls, Crassus replied, ‘Oh, OK, my bad.’” —Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)