The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Braying Jenny: “‘6 weeks pregnant’ = 2 weeks late on your period. Most of the men writing these bills don’t know the first thing about a woman’s body outside of the things they want from it. It’s relatively common for a woman to have a late period + not be pregnant.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commenting on Georgia’s fetal-heartbeat abortion ban

Where is that in the Constitution? “I think that anyone who is in a situation where they’re in need of health care, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for. That’s why I think we need more [health] clinics around the country.” —Joe Biden

Braying Jenny II: “We do have a jail down in the basement of the Capitol. But if we were arresting all of the people in the administration, we would have [an] overcrowded jail situation, and I’m not for that.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Huh? “The president … wants to goad us into impeachment because he knows, as do I, that that’s not a good thing for the country. The point is that every single day … the president is making a case. He’s becoming self-impeachable.” —Nancy Pelosi

Non sequitur: “Remember that time Pearl Harbor was bombed and FDR called the Emperor of Japan? Or the time the Twin Towers were struck and Bush ringed Osama Bin Laden? No? I don’t either. So why’d @realDonaldTrump call Putin after the Mueller Report was released?” —Eric Swalwell

With friends like these… “Pursue crushing civil fines against recalcitrant witnesses, impeach Mnuchin and Barr, seek sanctions to punish lawyers for ethics violations and, yes, if need be, try to lock them up. Perhaps if Democrats start wielding their power, some Republicans (just a few) will recognize the gravity of the situation they have created and head off the administration before a true constitutional calamity ensues.” —Jennifer Rubin

The BIG Lie: “Congress has the right to access the underlying documents of the Mueller report: There is no question about that. I can’t imagine a court ruling otherwise, but they are throwing every obstacle in our way because the president has, in many respects, become a dictator.” —Rep. Jackie Speier (Congress has the documents, which Barr wasn’t even required to provide.)

Belly laugh of the week: “We’ve talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it. We are now in a constitutional crisis.” —House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler remarking on William Barr, whom the committee voted in contempt

And last… “This is not a constitutional crisis. The legislature has asked for information. The executive has declined it. The legislature can impeach. The judiciary will weigh in. The messy gridlock of the system is a feature, not a bug.” —Ben Shapiro