The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Upright: “‘Everything’ is not at stake when the Court’s ideological balance tilts to the right. Conservative justices believe in restraint. In their view, it is not the Court’s job to make policy. As long as they adhere to the Constitution in enacting their agenda, lawmakers — very much including left-wing Democrats — get a wide berth from conservative justices to enact their policy goals. The caveat is that Democrats must enact their own policies — the politically accountable officials must adopt them by law, not rely on judges to impose them by fiats rationalized by distorting what the Constitution actually says.” —Andrew McCarthy

Fifty steps backward: “Rather than focusing on producing cheap, abundant energy — a key ingredient to human progress through all of human history — [Joe Biden would] embark on the fool’s errand of trying to adjust the world’s thermostat 80 years from now. After a 50-year effort to diminish our reliance on Middle Eastern oil, which has miraculously happened at last, Biden would force the U.S. to transition to solar and wind, industries currently dependent on Chinese supply chains.” —Rich Lowry

Nope: “Expand the court. Remember that Republicans have lost 6 of the last 7 popular votes, but have appointed 6 of the last 9 justices. By expanding the court we fix this broken system and have the court better represent the values of the American people.” —Representative Ilhan Omar

Non compos mentis: “[Republicans] have participated in a project that has led to the deaths of probably 100,000 Americans who didn’t have to die. Congratulations. You got that done, too. That also can’t be reversed. They can’t come back. We can’t undo that. That’s the other accomplishment here, Judge Barrett. They traded one for the other. They traded those lives for this justice.” —MSNBC’s Chris Hayes

Actually, no we don’t: “My name is Joe Biden, I’m Jill Biden’s husband, and I’m Kamala’s running mate. Y'all think I’m kidding, don’t you?” —Scranton Joe

Alpha jackass: “What’s his closing argument? That people are too focused on COVID. He said this at one of his rallies. ‘COVID, COVID, COVID,’ he’s complaining. He’s jealous of COVID’s media coverage.” —Barack Obama

And last… “Wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty. The reason there is less poverty today is not because the poor got a bigger slice of the pie but because the whole pie got a lot bigger — no thanks to the left.” —Thomas Sowell