The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Upright: “Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.” —Thomas Sowell

Observations: “We arrive at Impeachment Day, the day everyone who has always opposed the President and wanted him impeached finally impeach without having persuaded anyone else and then decided all those people are racists. Instead of persuading, they ran a campaign of shame and yelling louder.” —Erick Erickson

For the record: “Do we know enough, have we learned enough after listening to all this that we want to vote on the two very weak articles of impeachment? Or, do we want to have a show trial in which both sides try to embarrass the other and put on an embarrassing scene, frankly, for the American people? … Obviously, I think we’ve heard enough. And, after we’ve heard the arguments we ought to vote and move on… We know how it’s going to end. The president is not going to be removed from office.” —Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Demo-gogues: “Anyone in America watching this would draw the same logical conclusion — that the president has something to hide and Republican senators, too many of them, are intent in helping him hide it. It appears Leader McConnell … has already made up his mind about the Senate impeachment trial. It’s clear that Senator McConnell wants to use the Senate to help participate in a coverup.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

A blast from the past I: “What began 25 years ago with Watergate as a solemn and necessary process to force the president to adhere to the rule of law has grown beyond our control, so that now we are routinely using criminal accusations and scandal to win the political battles and ideological differences we cannot settle at the ballot box.” —Chuck Schumer during Bill Clinton’s impeachment ordeal — except that Clinton actually committed impeachable offenses

A blast from the past II: “There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other.” —Rep. Jerry Nadler exactly 21 years ago

And last… “Election tampering is treasonous sedition, unless done by Democrats impeaching a GOP president over hurt feelings with 3.5% unemployment months before the citizenry votes.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor