Non Compos Mentis I

“Speaker McCarthy unveiled a ransom note holding our economy hostage. It’s a 320-page plan to kill jobs, fill our cities with smog, and give asthma to our children. … It would make it easier for oil companies to use toxic chemicals that cause severe burns, damage people’s eyes, and quite literally melt bones.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“We’re just not going to negotiate over default. … Republicans should not be holding hostage our nation.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

For the Record

“House Republicans want to tie a $1.5 trillion increase in the ceiling to mild spending restraint. … The GOP proposal is hardly radical, and yet Biden dismisses it as ‘wacko.’ What’s wacko is that Biden has moved so far to the left. We’re old enough to remember the 1990s, when Republican Newt Gingrich came together with Democrat Bill Clinton to pass welfare reform, implementing those work requirements for federal assistance. Then-Senator Joe Biden happily voted for that ‘wacko’ idea.” —Nate Jackson

Upright

“Like every other household in America — if Washington wants to spend more, it needs to save more somewhere else. This isn’t controversial — it’s common sense. I invite the President to get serious and join Republicans at the table.” —House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

Hot Air

“It’s getting hotter. There are going to be more intensive weather events. And it will cost us an awful lot more money. So as that happens — as people see their farms, you know, the crops ripped away or their homes destroyed — you watch the pressure grow. … I think this will be … one of the top three issues in the ‘24 presidential election. No question in my mind.” —climate czar John Kerry

The BIG Lies

“Under the prior administration, they essentially dismantled the [immigration] system and broke it, and we have been, since we came in office, attempting to fix it.” —Vice President Kamala Harris

“It is my testimony that the border is secure.” —Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

Non Compos Mentis II

“When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence — very clearly incitement of violence. And that is the line that I think we have to be willing to contend with.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“I think that Speaker McCarthy is stuck between having to please the most racist and heinous elements of this party with having to maintain a majority, and he is choosing to side with the extremists.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Village Idiots

“MAGA Republicans are destroying our public schools.” —American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten

“It’s insulting to black people. It’s insulting to me as an African American.” —CNN’s Don Lemon on the claim “we have equality before the law”

Friendly Fire

“Most of the shootings [in Chicago] are young black men killing other young black men. … Much more than what the cops do. Why doesn’t anyone talk about that? Why aren’t there a hundred giant black celebrities … saying, 'What are you doing to yourselves? Why are you killing each other?’” —liberal comedian Bill Maher

Insight

“[Pornography] is not a thing to be argued about with one’s intellect, but to be stamped on with one’s heel.” —G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

And Last…

“Corporate America, are you paying attention? One woke marketing employee named Alissa Heinerscheid wiped out customer loyalty to a major brand. Go woke, go broke.” —Erick Erickson