Insight

“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” —Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)

For the Record

“Recession looks very imminent… When you get spot commodity prices dropping while the inflation rate is accelerating, you’ve got a recession on your hands. The reason copper and gold and lumber and all those are dropping is because the demand for them is going down. It’s not like rents and all these other things that are rising at [a] high rate. So we’ve got the worst of all possible worlds.” —economist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Arthur Laffer

“The average household uses 17% of their electricity for air conditioning. … If that average household plugged in electric cars … it would take four times as much electricity to charge the average household’s cars as the average household uses on air conditioning.” —Congressman Thomas Massie

Hot Air

“It’s about making a choice between what is the short term and the medium term so that we can make sure we have enough oil and gas to support us through the transition, and what are the kind of steps that we don’t want the oil and gas industry to take that would have long-term consequences when we don’t want new major projects that would take 20, 30 years to become profitable. So we have to make that differentiation to make sure that the American consumer has what it needs to grow our economy and the global economy, but not take steps and endanger the climate work that we’re trying to do to make sure that we’re in a better footing to accelerate the transition.” —Biden energy advisor Amos Hochstein

Intraparty Squabbles

“People like [Joe] Manchin … are intentionally sabotaging the president’s agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want. Nothing new about this. And the problem was that we continue to talk to Manchin like he was serious. He was not. This is a guy who is a major recipient of fossil fuel money, a guy who has received campaign contributions from 25 Republican billionaires.” —Senator Bernie Sanders

Veep Thoughts With Kamala

“I’m here to ask you to do what you know how to do ‘cause when you do what you do on all of these issues, the American people win.” —Vice President Kamala Harris

“You know, an assault weapon, like many things, there’s a design — there’s a purposeful design. Well, for the assault weapon, the design is to kill a lot of human beings quickly. There is no reason for weapons of war on the streets of America.” —Kamala Harris

Non Sequitur Award

“For the first time in generations, the United States Supreme Court … took away a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America, from the women of America. We know, NAACP, that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies.” —Kamala Harris

The BIG Lie

“It’s important to note that to support a woman’s ability … to make that [abortion] decision does not require anyone to abandon their faith or their beliefs.” —Kamala Harris

And Last…

“AOC and Ilhan Omar’s handcuffs were as real as pregnant men.” —Tim Young

“One 22 yr old man at an Indiana mall was more effective than 400 law enforcement officers at Uvalde.” —Tim Young