The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.” —Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)

Never let a crisis go to waste: “Instead of taking that legislation — urgent, necessary legislation — and passing it quickly, Democrats have now decided to allow Speaker Pelosi to block it through proxies here in the Senate so that she can rewrite the bill with a ton of crap that has absolutely nothing to do with the public health emergency that we face at this moment,” —Sen. Ben Sasse

For the record: “Democrats won’t let us fund hospitals or save small businesses unless they get to dust off the green New Deal.” —Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Observations: “The money [Congress] will eventually send to taxpayers isn’t a handout. It is our money that they took in the first place to pay the cost of conducting government. When the check arrives to your house, it is doing just that — the government shut down the economy of this country and that is costing money. They are paying for it with the checks they send.” —Peter Heck

Straight from the horse’s mouth: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.” —Majority Whip James Clyburn

Braying jackass: “Let me be clear: Donald Trump is not to blame for the coronavirus, but he does bear responsibility for our response, and I, along with every American, hope he steps up and starts to get this right.” —Joe Biden

Alpha jackass: “Rand Paul’s neighbor was right.” —Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, seemingly condoning the despicable assault on Senator Paul

Non compos mentis and dezinformatsiya all in one: “A man has died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate — one of the anti-malaria drugs that Trump has mentioned in recent days.” —Axios, which later revealed, “We have deleted this tweet and corrected our story because it did not reflect the full nature of the self-medication done with an additive commonly used to clean fish tanks.”

And last… “This country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by a bunch of idiots.” —Sen. John Kennedy