The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts
What happened to the “Sessions is a right-wing extremist” narrative? “Jeff Sessions’ firing at the hands of the President is an alarming development that brings us one step closer to a constitutional crisis.” —Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Friendly fire: “CNN stopped doing news a long time ago. … There [were] vicious winds and storms in the Northeast the other day, not covered on any of the three cable networks. Not covered. So when CNN started covering Trump — they were the first — they covered every speech he made and then they made Trump the story. So, Trump is the story in America. I guess it’s to their regret.” —former CNN host Larry King
Race bait: “I think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” —Bernie Sanders on elections in Georgia and Florida, though he must have missed that Barack Obama was elected president twice
Dumb and dumber:
“I don’t think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House popular vote but not the majority. After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore, etc, the party is on the edge of losing faith in the system (and reasonably so).” —Vox’s Ezra Klein
“Republicans lost the popular vote in Senate races by over 15 percentage points, but still gained two seats. Our country is not a democracy.” —Salon’s Amanda Marcotte
“There won’t be free and fair elections in the United States until the Senate is abolished.” —ThinkProgress’ Ian Millhiser
“Democrats have a 12-point lead in the overall popular vote for the Senate and have lost three seats.” —Evan Hill
Non Compos Mentis: “What I saw was a battery, not by Jim Acosta, but by the young White House aide.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin
And last… “A presidential press conference, no matter who is president, is a forum to ask questions as tough as you like, but don’t argue. And you get one chance, maybe one followup. Your colleagues are waiting their turns. Show them some respect and the president. It’s not about you.” —Brit Hume