Insight: “In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.” —Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

“One of the great principles of socialism is division. If everything is racist, then nothing is racist. In our culture today, we have many racial issues that need to be dealt with. And in my estimation, we were making some progress, and growing and dealing with those things. But when all of the discussion now is, ‘Everything is racist,’ the real issues never get touched.” —Rev. David Jeremiah

“It is not ‘part of the process’ for legislators to be stalked and filmed as they try to use the bathroom. If this tactic ‘happens to everybody,’ then where is the video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being chased into a restroom by conservatives upset with her voting record? No such video exists because any activist behaving in such a manner would be immediately arrested and universally condemned.” —Washington Examiner

“Just months ago, the Democratic leader won new powers to reuse reconciliation over and over. They don’t even need our consent to set a vote at 51 instead of 60. They need even less help raising the debt limit than majorities needed in the past. So … if Republicans were sitting on a hidden veto power to stop reconciliation bills, you would have heard about it way back in the springtime.” —Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell

Non sequitur: “The Fed is trying to sort through the implications of … supply bottlenecks … that have caused inflation. I believe that they are transitory, but that doesn’t mean they’ll go away over the next several months.” —Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Grand delusions: “This party, the Democratic Party, looks like America. The diversity of this great country is the diversity that you see in the Democratic Party. And with diversity, you got strength, but you also have challenges sometimes bringing folks together on the same page to make sure that the priorities are the same.” —DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison

D'oh! “It’s great to be with [Governor Gretchen Whitmer] … and her lieutenant governor who covers her in every way, both in terms of physically and mentally and every other way.” —Joe Biden

Nope: “White evangelical theology projects Jesus as not only white … but a white Savior of people of color … because we, apparently, according to this theology, were a backward, uncivilized, sort of savage race. … Black liberation theology is like, no, Jesus was … a radical revolutionary that came to free the people from the clutches of Babylon and oppression, and from the clutches of empire, whether it was the Roman empire or the American empire.” —Ibram X. Kendi

And last… “Joe Biden’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. Joe Biden voted against debt ceiling increases three times in the Bush era. That’s something he conveniently omitted [this week], or maybe he’s just forgotten it. … Democrats for years have called Mitch McConnell the Grim Reaper of the Senate. They shouldn’t be surprised when the Grim Reaper of the Senate kills their terrible ideas.” —Senator Tom Cotton

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