The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.” —Ronald Reagan

Political futures: “One area Reagan hit upon repeatedly is that government should live within its means. I don’t think President Trump or either party have any will to correct this anymore. But the people have voted themselves bread and circuses, so they put up with an unsustainable debt as a permanent fixture that one day others will have to fix. The voters don’t see that the ‘others’ are their own descendants.” —Steve Berman

For the record: “Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called ‘The Resistance,’ and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver available to sabotage the functioning of his Administration.” —Attorney General William Barr

Friendly fire: “The average American doesn’t think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.” —Barack Obama with a mild shot at Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren

Demo-gogues: “Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be president.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lie: “What the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did, that at some point Richard Nixon cared about the country enough to recognize that this could not continue.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Tone deaf: “Truth is closing in. Facts are closing in.” —Dan Rather (“Using Dan Rather to talk about truth and facts in politics these days is a bad idea. It immediately turns off people who don’t like Trump, but who recognize bias in the press.” —Erick Erickson)

And last… “Democrats are now trying to impeach the president for ‘bribery.’ That is ridiculous. Do you want to know what real bribery is? Ukrainian companies paying Hunter Biden $83,000 a month to protect their own corruption. Where is the investigation into that?” —Charlie Kirk