The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Goodness without wisdom always accomplished evil.” —Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)

Upright: “[The] selective disregard for rules and norms is a civic disease that is spreading through the political left. … The nation needs real constitutional champions, not fair-weather institutionalists.” —Mitch McConnell

For the record: “I said if Joe Biden became president, we would lose the border and it’s happening. The surge is already there. … This isn’t by accident. This is by design. This is an open-border strategy. He has bowed to the Left.” —former acting ICE Director Tom Homan

A blind squirrel finds a nut: “When you have unions that have other aspirations beyond being a union, and maybe being something akin to a political party, then there’s always going to be conflict. I think, ultimately, they’d like to take over not only Chicago Public Schools, but take over running the city government. That’ll play itself out over time. … But politics intrudes, always.” —Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on the Chicago Teachers Union’s refusal to return to work

The BIG Lie: “There was no stockpile … of vaccines. There was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations. We were leaving it to the states and local leaders to try and figure it out. And so in many ways, we’re starting from scratch on something that’s been raging for almost an entire year!” —VP Kamala Harris (“We certainly are not starting from scratch because there is activity going on in the distribution.” —Dr. Anthony Fauci in January)

Nothing to see here… “I want to clarify facts on the nursing homes. This past year, there is a toxic political environment, and everything gets politicized. And there is political spin, and there are facts — two different things.” —Andrew Cuomo trying to explain away revelations regarding his deadly policy on nursing homes and COVID

Race bait: “All I can say is, 75 million people voted for Trump. That’s all I can say. You ain’t fooling me. I know what it’s about. A lot of you hate everything we did when we came here about the staff, the diversity of the staff, it was this or that. And I like to think I know a little something about building teams and what organizations should look like.” —Vanderbilt men’s basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse, whose team is having yet another embarrassing season

And last… “It’s truly appalling that anybody even on the left is willing to defend Andrew Cuomo or teachers unions.” —Liz Wheeler