The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

The BIG Lie

“The president has demonstrated leadership on how to … put forward a plan that’s humane, right? That’s humane and actually is also effective.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre regarding illegal immigration

Hot Air

“We’re doing everything that we can to tackle the root causes of climate change. This is why the Inflation Reduction Act is so important.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“I regret that this committee continues to hold hearings on things that do not exist, like a bogus ban on gas stoves, while ignoring the real economic and energy issues affecting people across this country. Could it be that this is part of an effort by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to distract from the numerous wins of the Biden administration?” —Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-OH)

Dumb & Dumber

“Chairman [Jim] Jordan complained that in the 2020 election, he believed that the FBI prevented the public from seeing more of Hunter Biden’s laptop — if you can believe that.” —Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA)

“[Republicans] are weaponizing Hunter Biden against his dad as an effective tool to get his dad to lose his cool and to get his dad to, you know, feel the heartache. They’re going to weaponize Hunter Biden.” —"The View" co-host Ana Navarro

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry says the Chinese Communist Party is doing an ‘incredible’ job with increasing its green energy sources. Does Kerry forget that the CCP uses child labor and allegedly Uyghur slave labor to produce green energy technologies?” —Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Re: The Left

“Conservatives didn’t start the culture wars. ‘Progressives’ did, and they are the ones jeopardizing national security by treating the military as a petri dish for their social experiments.” —Nate Jackson

“America’s leaders used to worry that we wouldn’t have enough stopping power to defend against Soviet tanks potentially pouring through the Fulda Gap or a survivable nuclear force in the event of a nuclear first strike; now they worry servicemembers might not be learning enough about microaggressions.” —Rich Lowry

“Sixty years ago this summer, Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood before the doors of schools to prevent black children from attending the schools with white children. He was trying to preserve the stain of segregation. Today, Democrats are employing the same tactic to keep minority kids from attending excellent schools.” —Stephen Moore

“Had it not been for Trump’s razor-thin victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett would instead be three fiftyish leftists with lifetime appointments, and the Supreme Court would be 6-2-1 left-wing instead of a 5-3-1 conservative majority — and probably so for at least a generation. Imagine every landmark case on abortion, religious liberty, free speech, racial discrimination, and the limits of government power going the wrong way for the rest of your life. Now you can imagine the anguish of the Democrats.” —Douglas Andrews

“If Democrats themselves aren’t enthusiastic about Biden, how optimistic can they be about getting independents to turn out for him? Their hope is that ‘negative partisanship’ will do their work for them. Voters don’t have to like Biden as long as they dislike the Republican enough.” —Daniel McCarthy

Insight

“It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)