The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Insight

“The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society.” —Harry Browne (1933-2006)

For the Record

“It is absolutely insane what the left is trying to do to women. They’re basically telling people that if you wear makeup and you shop online and you cry sometimes, then you too can be a woman. They have no concept of the real struggles that so many women have and the challenges that they overcome.” —Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this, where you have a distinct majority of an incumbent president’s own party saying they don’t want him to run. … The situation in the other party is nearly as grim, a former president who the majority of the country does not want to see run again.” —journalist Brit Hume

“Biden’s political genius turns out to be not provoking strong negative emotions because no one particularly thinks of him as being in charge or as having anything interesting to say.” —Rich Lowry

Non Compos Mentis

“The most obvious question in American politics today should be: why is the guy who committed treason just over two years ago allowed to run for president? Answer: he shouldn’t be. … Trump is running for re-election, despite the explicit language of section three of the 14th amendment to the constitution, which prohibits anyone who has held public office and who has engaged in insurrection against the United States from ever again serving in public office. … Secretaries of state … must refuse to place Donald Trump’s name on the 2024 ballot, based on the clear meaning of section three of the 14th amendment to the US constitution.” —former Labor Secretary Robert Reich

The BIG Lies

“In the run-up to the 2022 election, House Republicans promised to put cops on the beat. Instead, they’re fighting to put fentanyl on the street by … defunding Border Patrol. Their proposal makes clear that [the] only things House Republicans are committed to giving to Americans are increased crime, lower economic growth, and more manufacturing jobs sent back to China.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“Unlawful immigration is down.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“President Biden has such a strong record to run on. He has gotten this country through the pandemic. He has the backs of the American people.” —Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

“Our economic plan is working. We now have to finish the job.” —Joe Biden

“We’ve made all this progress while being fiscally responsible.” —Joe Biden

“The threat the MAGA Republicans pose is to take us to a place we’ve never been and where the last guy tried to take us.” —Joe Biden

“While not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make sure that all the incentives and all the protections were there to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated.” —Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (“Mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions.” —Justin Trudeau, February 2022)

Veep Thoughts

“I think it’s very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.” —Kamala Harris

Braying Jennies

“Deplatforming works and it is important.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tucker Carlson’s ouster

“[Don Lemon] has been on the air for a long time fighting bigotry, whereas Tucker [Carlson] has been fomenting bigotry.” —"The View" co-host Joy Behar

And Last…

“What I’ll miss the most about Don Lemon is his constantly claiming to be a victim of racism while making millions of dollars as a national TV host.” —Tim Young