April 21, 2023

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Pramila Jayapal, Hakeem Jeffries, Samantha Ponder, and more.

Braying Jenny

“This country needs immigrants to survive. Immigrants pick the food we eat … clean our homes, and look after the most precious in our families — our children and our elders.” —Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)

Non Compos Mentis

“The Republican Party hasn’t won a popular vote in several decades. So the way they win, they win through the Electoral College, based on the slave system. And the bottom line here is until we really do something about the Electoral College, I think we may have these clowns in office. I mean, these are not serious people.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin

“Female dummies in crash testing … will start to fight the gender inequity among vehicle safety and crash victims.” —Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)

The BIG Lies

“The president — when he came in, nothing was being done. He made sure … that the economy came back — came back in a way … that we haven’t seen in some time … by making sure we created more than 12 million jobs.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“Under President Biden’s leadership, we’ve made real progress towards a fairer tax system. His budget will continue this progress by making the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share. And, no one earning less than $400,000 will see their taxes go up by one penny.” —The White House

“MAGA Republicans are trying to sensationalize an issue [males in female sports] that doesn’t really exist in the way that they are falsely portraying.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

“This bill [Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act] is about bullying children. Stop bullying children.” —Congressman Greg Landsman (D-OH)

“We should rename it the cancel kids trans hate bill. This bill fuels a virulent hate campaign against kids who just want to play with their friends.” —Pramila Jayapal

“House Republicans are choosing to bully and belittle trans children. This is about attacking a small group of children, and it is shameful.” —Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA)

Demagogues

“The administration … is going to do everything that they can to protect LGBTQI+ people who are under attack. And that’s what we’ve been seeing across the country, especially in statehouses. And so we’re going to fight alongside them to protect their rights. They should be allowed to be who they are, who they want to be. And … we should be able to speak out … against hate and discrimination.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“We are the only developed country on the planet where its citizens can have unfettered access to firearms. That is not a good thing.” —Michelle Obama

“Anybody who doesn’t think that we have global warming, hang out with me, man. Travel to every major fire I’ve been to.” —Joe Biden

Upright

“It is a shame that we are needing to fight for the integrity of Title IX in 2023 and the reason it was needed in the first place. #savewomensports.” —ESPN’s Samantha Ponder

“This sh*t has to stop… If the parents, coaches and ‘women’ athletes ALL REFUSE TO PLAY against these MEN… It ALL STOPS!” —comedian Rob Schneider

“‘Conservatives’ who champion Caitlin Jenner and ask conservatives to back off on the Bud Light boycott simply are not on our side. They don’t get it, don’t care, and don’t have any idea what got us in this mess in the first place.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

For the Record

“We should see [the Nashville shooter’s manifesto] so we can know what exactly drove this killer. And if we don’t see it, we should be free to draw some damning conclusions not only about the Biden administration’s protection racket but about the hate-filled cult of transgenderism.” —Douglas Andrews

“The investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes, led by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, first began in 2018 and is also connected to the allegedly false statements Hunter made when purchasing a firearm. … That’s right. The investigation has been going on for five freaking years. How long does it take, after all, to put together a solid case when you have a laptop computer chock-full of incriminating evidence and a rock-solid eyewitness who can corroborate the incriminating communications and the meetings that implicate then-Vice President Joe Biden?” —Douglas Andrews

Observations

“Proponents of mifepristone argue that … relaxed provisions are entirely appropriate for a demonstrably safe medication. But given that abortion is a life-altering decision for the woman — and life-ending for the unborn child — is it unreasonable to require a more substantive process than ordering a new T-shirt from Amazon? And should the process not be more secure as well? Mifepristone is considered safe for use up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy, but for a package that just shows up on the doorstep, there’s little certainty about who will use it, when, and where.” —Jack DeVine

“According to some, abortion is all about removal of an embryo or fetus from a pregnant person’s body, to protect that person’s health. It should be quick, convenient, and impersonal. And as long as you never allow yourself to slip into the sappy visualization of a little baby cooing and crying, you’ll be fine. I’d argue just the opposite — that whether for or against abortion, only by acknowledging its reality and human import can we reach a widely acceptable resolution to the dilemma it presents.” —Jack DeVine

Re: The Left

“Biden’s old guard and the new hard Left play a game of mutual advantage. The new majority of radical Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop — exempt from counter-revolutionary criticism or inter-party primary challenges or demands to retire. In return, the codgers reassure the nation that old faces like theirs cannot possibly be polyester revolutionary socialists — despite their role in airbrushing and photoshopping the radical catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“What we easily tolerate we get more of and what we strongly oppose we get less of. When lawless behavior is tolerated and leaders who are supposed to keep neighborhoods safe effectively see lawbreakers as depraved because they are deprived, to quote lyrics from ‘West Side Story,’ it is a virtual guarantee that some will run wild. As [Proverbs 29:18] says: ‘Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint.’” —Cal Thomas

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