A Trip Down Memory Lane

“The filibuster has been abused to stop reforms supported by the vast majority of Americans — from background checks to protecting the right to vote. We must stop this abuse of power.” —Sen. Cory Booker, 2022

Delusions of Grandeur

“I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history.” —pollster Frank Luntz

For the Record

“Bizarre: Corey Booker conducted a record holding filibuster to defend illegal aliens, gang members, r*pists, and terrorists.” —Rep. Nancy Mace

Demagogue

“Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is a tax hike on Americans. … The only thing Trump is ‘liberating’ is YOUR money from YOUR wallet straight into the economic dumpster fire he’s creating.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar

Non Compos Mentis

“Every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. … So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?” —The Nation legal correspondent Elie Mystal

The BIG Lie

“The SAVE Act … is a voter suppression bill.” —House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries regarding the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“Truth should matter to us. What’s right should matter to us.” —Sen. Adam Schiff

Yellow Journalism

“HOW TRUMP LOSES GEN Z: AG Pam Bondi announced that she wants the prosecution to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione if he’s convicted.” —Politico Playbook

Re: The Left

“[Anthony] Fauci’s distortions of the recent past stand out for their jesuitical sophistry and their brazenness. But he is not alone in attempting to alter history concerning Covid, even five years later. Those of us who want to remember this history accurately and learn from it must guard against such revisionism.” —Jack Butler

“A handful of lawyers in robes should not be cosplaying as president. They shouldn’t be allowed to run out the clock on the Trump Administration fulfilling his mandate to rein in government overreach.” —Sen. Mike Lee

“Why was it almost impossible to find a judge in America who was angry and demanded to know why the Biden administration was not properly vetting millions of people coming into our country?” —Gary Bauer

With Friends Like These…

“Ripping off taxpayers is one of the biggest businesses in America. It’s so routine that it isn’t seen as a criminal action anymore but rather the cost of doing business inside the Beltway. Like paying off the mob. … We are living through the harrowing last scene in a Hollywood murder mystery in which you discover that the chief of police was in on it all along.” —Stephen Moore

Upright

“I think if we speak the truth, if we refuse to live by lies, then I think we can redeliver on the promise of Western civilization. We can rebuild the kind of society where virtue and freedom and our ancient liberties are preserved and enforced and facilitated by our government rather than torn down by our government.” —JD Vance

And Last…

“If you were upset by Joe Biden’s autopen… you should be upset by proxy voting.” —Tim Young