February 10, 2022

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Tom Cotton, Justin Trudeau, Sean Patrick Maloney, and more.

For the Record

“No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.” —William E. Borah (1865-1940)

“[Democrats] did everything they could to get Biden elected, the guy who campaigned from his basement. They never asked any questions about that. Well, now he gets in. And he had … the worst first year president of any president since the 1800s. People compare him to Jimmy Carter. Carter was much more successful his first year than Biden has been.” —Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

“From the onset of the pandemic, corporate media outlets were advocating for lockdowns, school closures, and forced masking of children. Two years later? The facts show lockdowns didn’t work, masks didn’t reduce spread, and that Democrats followed politics — not science. Even worse, our school children were used as pawns in their political games. The legacy media will try to whitewash the Left’s failures and hypocrisy. Don’t let them just move on to the next narrative.” —Ron DeSantis

“DeSantis didn’t wait until the public polling and opinion changed, he followed the science and did the right thing by ditching masks and reopening. If every Republican was that brave and outspoken maybe we wouldn’t have gotten as far into this mess as we have.” —Lisa Boothe

Non Compos Mentis Awards

“I think if you ask the majority of New Yorkers they feel that [Andrew Cuomo] did a good job as governor, especially at handling the pandemic when the Trump administration was not handling it well on a federal level." —"The View’s” Sunny Hostin (“Ten thousand senior citizens died in nursing homes in New York while he was writing a book that he profited off of.” —Alyssa Farah Griffin)

“The protests going on across Canada … are leading to sporadic congestion and blockages. … We, of course, support, as you know, the right to freedom of speech and protest. But … these disruptions have broadened in scope beyond the vaccine requirement implementation.” —White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki

“I can understand frustrations with mandates, but mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions.” —Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

The Big Demo Pivot

“Democrats’ plan to fight COVID is working — cases are down & vaccines are widely available. Now, it’s time to give people their lives back. With science as our guide, we’re ready to start getting back to normal.” —Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney

“Under President Biden’s leadership, a public health infrastructure was put into place … to ensure that we can do everything possible to crush the virus, and that is what has been happening.” —Congressman Hakeem Jeffries

“Some future COVID variant may prove much more dangerous than Omicron to the functioning of society. If a return to social-distancing measures should once again prove necessary, I’ll be among the first to say so. But at this point, the restrictions still shaping everyday life in America have become unnecessary. It is time to draw the logical inference — and end our pandemic purgatory. … Let’s drop the remaining restrictions on our everyday lives. Let’s shake off the pandemic malaise. Open everything.” —The Atlantic’s Yascha Mounk

And Last…

“Last week, Biden talked about being tough on crime. This week, the Biden Admin announced funds for crack pipe distribution to ‘advance racial equity.’” —Senator Tom Cotton

“It appears Biden has been listening to the smartest guy he knows…” —Kyle Martinsen

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