Observations

“There’s a lot of sensitivity around Biden. … Some comedy writers feel they can’t do something that will sabotage their party and let the bad guy get leverage. I don’t think any of this is spoken out loud. It’s just obvious.” —comedian Dana Carvey

“In Washington D.C., retired generals go to work for defense contractors, retired IRS officials teach corporations how to avoid paying taxes and retired FBI officials go to work for the Russians. And aspiring presidents, like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, open nonprofits that allow them to legally take cash from foreign countries while prepping their future administrations.” —Daniel Greenfield

“The 14 million documents a year being designated as secret in 2004 has metastasized into more than 50 million a year today, according to Oona Hathaway, a Yale Law School professor and former special counsel to the Pentagon. A maxim attributed to Frederick the Great holds that ‘he who protects everything, protects nothing.’ The Prussian king was referring to battlefield strategy, but the principle applies equally to government paperwork. The annual classification of tens of millions of documents, most of which do not deal with ultrasensitive national security secrets, serves mostly to shelter the political class from scrutiny and to keep from the public information it has a right to see.” —Jeff Jacoby

For the Record

“There are two ways that federal spending can be financed. Taxes or debt. Politicians don’t like taxation because they have to be honest with citizens that they are taking their money. Borrowing achieves the same end without asking. … Instead of paying our bills honestly through taxes, we bear the burden of debt through inflation and slow growth.” —Star Parker

“It can only go on so long. Ordinary people who live on credit cards and pay only the monthly minimum can tell you that. Eventually, credit card payments don’t pay for any new goods or services, just interest. That’s what our nation faces if it doesn’t change course now. Interest expenses will mount, rates will go up and an increasing proportion of tax revenues will be consumed paying interest. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that over the next 10 years, interest expense will triple. In a decade, interest outlays will exceed defense spending. Yikes. Eventually, if fiscal sanity is not restored, government will have to cut services or impose massive tax hikes, or both.” —Betsy McCaughey

Demagogues

“This is purely about political vengeance. The cost is not only removing us from the committee. … The costs are the death threats that Miss Omar, myself, and Mr. Schiff keep getting because Mr. McCarthy continues to aim and project these smears against us, even though we have said publicly these smears are bringing death threats. He continues to do it, which makes us believe that there’s an intent behind it. But we will not be quiet. We’re not going away. I think he’ll regret giving all three of us more time on our hands.” —Congressman Eric Swalwell

“The cardinal sin appears to be that I led the impeachment of [Kevin McCarthy’s] master in Mar-a-Lago.” —Congressman Adam Schiff

“Having seen the damage, the violence that came about in the Fourth of July shooting at the parade in Highland Park, Illinois, where a fellow discharged 83 rounds in 60 seconds, this is unthinkable. Anybody who believes that’s what the Founding Fathers had in mind historically is just off base completely.” —Senator Dick Durbin

“I have no intention of letting the Republicans wreck our economy.” —Joe Biden

“Last year, after decades of plotting and insidious efforts, the MAGA Supreme Court stripped millions of women of the right to abortion. … This was a clear message from MAGA Republicans to women across the country: Your body. Their choice.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

And Last…

“When sex is treated not as an act of lifelong love that can bring sacred new life into the world, but as self centered and trivial momentary pleasure, we create a culture that demands abortion.” —Lila Rose