The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

For the record: “[Ronald Reagan] said, ‘I didn’t leave my party. My party left me.’ I’m saying the same thing.” —Rep. Jeff Van Drew on why he switched to the Republican Party

Political futures: “[Democrats] want to claim that they’ve crippled this lawless president [but] that the Republicans wouldn’t remove him from office. And there is no way that the Democrats will ever agree to him making another Supreme Court appointment, either in the next 11 months or, as I say, should he get reelected and in the four years subsequent to his first term.” —Mark Levin

Nailed it: “Speaker Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate. The prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial. They said impeachment was so urgent that it could not even wait for due process but now they’re content to sit on their hands. It is comical.” —Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

You’re a fine one to talk: “The president has abused his power — using his office to further not the nation’s objectives but his own personal, political objectives — and, together, we are holding him accountable. Feel proud. Keep going.” —Hillary Clinton

A blind squirrel finds a nut: “I think what he’s done for the economy is very good. People are working, and that’s a step in the right direction.” —actor Pierce Brosnan, who last year bellowed, “That man has torn this country apart and you have to work out how much longer you can stay here.”

Diabolical: “We talk about [abortion] so negatively that [women] feel like you should have this sense of shame after you get an abortion. Well, you can feel any way you want after an abortion. Get one! See how you feel. You know how my abortion made me feel? Very powerful. You know how people say you can’t play God? I walked out of there being like, ‘Move over Morgan Freeman, I am God!’” —"comedian" Michelle Wolf

And last… “Don’t go seeking saviors in politics. You’ll just be disappointed. And if you’re never disappointed in a politician, you’re in a cult and don’t know it.” —Erick Erickson