The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

For the record: “If Planned Parenthood is so concerned about women of color, why aren’t they offering free abortions? Or taking the $40 million they spend on political campaigns and redirecting it to patients? Simple. Because their concern isn’t women — it’s their bottom line. At the end of the day, abortion is a business, and their goal is to make as much money as possible.” —Tony Perkins

Observations: “While we are at war among ourselves, bitterly divided and blaming those in the other political party, my guess is that China is enjoying watching us ignore the real threat to our future. The more havoc and discord that can be sown internally, the less attention we will pay to our real enemy.” —Jackie Gingrich Cushman

The bottom line: “A group of my colleagues want to spend another trillion dollars — including almost $200 billion to bail out liberal states with governors that can’t do the basic job they’re elected to do: manage their own budgets.” —Senator Rick Scott

An inconvenient truth: “That’s how [Republicans] beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we’re talking about defunding the police.” —Joe Biden

Braying jenny: “I don’t have any concerns about Mr. Swalwell.” —Nancy Pelosi

Non sequitur: “[Kevin McCarthy] has QAnon in his delegation over there. That I think is a danger in terms of our debate here about what the possibilities are for undue influence to members of Congress.” —Nancy Pelosi (What’s more dangerous — a stupid conspiracy theory or Red China?)

Belly laugh of the week: “I ended up getting enormous support in these pretty conservative, rural, largely white communities when I was a senator, and that success was repeated when I ran for president in the first race in Iowa. By my second year in office, I’m not sure if I could make that same connection, because now those same people are filtering me through Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and an entire right-wing or conservative media infrastructure that was characterizing me in a way that suggested I looked down on those folks or had nothing in common with them.” —Barack Obama

The BIG Lie: “Abraham Lincoln never told an esteemed reporter, ‘Don’t talk to me that way! …I’m the President of the United States. Don’t ever talk to the President that way!’” —"historian" Michael Beschloss (“Um, Lincoln shut down more than 300 newspapers.” —Ben Shapiro)

Straight from the horse’s mouth: “If Biden gets elected, maybe we’ll add three justices to the Supreme [Court]. I can’t say that here today, but… The official position of the party right now is not ‘aggressively pack the Court,’ it’s ‘we’re waiting and seeing how the nomination process goes’ and then we’ll go from there.” —Jon Ossoff’s Deputy Political Director Mike Harris

Letting the cat out of the bag: “The decision to include among other sectors outdoor dining and limiting that — turning to restaurants to deliver and provide takeout options instead — really has to do with the goal of trying to keep people at home, not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining.” —California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Mark Ghaly

And last… “Democrats were Russia Hoax superspreaders.” —Rep. Matt Gaetz