Mike Pence...jail or not?

[Tero]

will he be carrying the Trump term to end or will he be kicked out too? Then we get Paul Ryan

Onion spoofs on Pence:
Mike Pence Has Long Heart-To-Heart With Staffer Who Came To Work With Coffee On Breath

Mike Pence Asks Waiter To Remove Mrs. Butterworth From Table Until Wife Arrives


Pence Passing Time During Trump’s Speech By Mentally Baptizing Senators

Mike Pence Disappointed In The 200,000 Husbands And Fathers Who Permitted Women To Attend March

Mike Pence Vows To Cut Conservation Funding After Discovering Elk Don’t Mate For Life

Mike Pence Drapes Shawl Over Immodest Lady Justice Statue

Mike Pence Visits Small Town Hit Hard By Kids Seeing R-Rated Movies

Pence Relaxes Onstage By Imagining Entire Debate Audience Burning In Hell

Mike Pence Training For Vice Presidential Debate By Hitting Punching Bag With Climate Change Study Taped On Front

[Tero]

Long before he was Trump’s official warm-up act, Pence was the darling of the right. While he was in Congress — he served from 2001 to 2013 — no substantive Pence-sponsored legislation became law, but he rose through the Republican ranks on the strength of his strict adherence to conservative principle.

In 2005, the conservative publication Human Events named Pence their “Man of the Year.” At the time, Pence headed the Republican Study Committee, a group of far-right House conservatives fed up with what Human Events deemed the “big-government conservatism” that had “ruled the roost during the Bush years in Washington.” Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, as Congress sought to fund the recovery process on the Gulf Coast, Pence and his congressional allies proposed $500 billion in cuts to federal programs, including Medicare prescription drug benefits, to pay for the rebuilding. Pence served as a public face of the proposal that conservatives called “Operation Offset.” “We simply can’t allow a catastrophe of nature to become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren,” Pence said at the time.

Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank, was smitten when he talked about Pence in 2006, during Pence’s third term in Congress. “Nobody is perfect, but he comes pretty close,” Weyrich said. “He is what I’ve been waiting for in terms of leadership.”

There is a group of Republicans these days who would be happy to see Pence in the White House, according to a SurveyMonkey poll conducted recently on behalf of FiveThirtyEight. A plurality of Trump voters who said they were not excited to have voted for the president said that if they could vote again for any Republican, they would choose Pence. And while many of Pence’s hardline anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage beliefs are out of step with the American mainstream — 57 percent of Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases and 61 percent approve of gay marriage — his affable public persona might serve him well, particularly if he were to assume office after a turbulent end to the Trump presidency.

“I think his best gift is his simplicity and clarity of communication,” Curt Smith, head of the Indiana Family Institute and a Pence ally during his governorship, told me. “It’s authentic and winsome.” Pence, a former political talk radio host, likes to say he’s “conservative but not mad about it.”

Most famously, Pence is a politician whose evangelical Protestant religious beliefs play a substantial role in his policy decisions.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/im ... ent-pence/

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Jail him. I don't know if he's done anything wrong or not, but jail him anyway!

[DRSB]

Pence’s odds of becoming President are long but not prohibitive. Of his forty-seven predecessors, nine eventually assumed the Presidency, because of a death or a resignation. After Lyndon Johnson decided to join the ticket with John F. Kennedy, he calculated his odds of ascension to be approximately one in four, and is said to have told Clare Boothe Luce, “I’m a gambling man, darling, and this is the only chance I’ve got.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... l_facebook

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Dazed Mike Pence Wakes Up 15 Miles Outside D.C. After Asking God To Deliver Him From Evil