Mike Pence - Trump's Choice!?

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SHINYGOODGUY

Friday, July 15, 2016 3:24 PM

Oh yeah! This is gonna be good.

I recently saw a clip of Pence during a press conference whereby he was answering
his disastrous signing of the Religious Freedom Act. He completely lies to the
public...............

Rachel Maddow takes Indiana’s Republican Gov. Mike Pence to task for having just signed the bigoted “religious freedom” anti-gay bill that allows private businesses to refuse service to gay customers.

Yeah, this is gonna be interesting!

SGG

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, July 17, 2016 2:56 AM

Pence endorsed Cruz in the primary, right? Instead of Trump?

ELVISCHRIST

Sunday, July 17, 2016 3:44 AM

Mike Pence, a guy with a bright political future behind him.

ELVISCHRIST

Sunday, July 17, 2016 4:05 AM

They already had to scrub their logo from the Trump website because of the incessant ridicule it was getting. Nothing like some TP for those two assholes.

SECOND

Sunday, July 17, 2016 4:36 AM

Donald Trump has made the decision to go to war in Iraq a major foreign policy litmus test, concluding that Hillary Clinton was “trigger-happy” for supporting what he called a “disaster.” But Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, was a major proponent of that conflict.

Pence was a co-sponsor of the war resolution. The bill's sponsor, Dennis “Denny the child molester” Hastert, is in Federal Prison today. www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/107/hjres114

Pence gave a messianic justification for invading Iraq: “There is a nation, some 50 nations, that stand ready to end [Iraqis’] oppression, to dry their tears, and to lead Iraq into a new dawn of civilization, a new dawn of freedom from oppression and torture and the abuse of women and the stifling of basic civil and human rights.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20030824113058/http://www.mikepence.house.
gov/news.asp?FormMode=ViewSpeech&ID=21

In 2007 Pence visited Baghdad and proclaimed it to be “like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime.” Three months earlier, a suicide bomber detonated himself in the market, killing 88 people.

Iraqis disagreed with Pence’s assessment of the Shorja market’s “friendly relaxed atmosphere.” Karim Abdullah, a textile merchant at Shorja, said that the lawmakers “were laughing and talking to people as if there was nothing going on in this country or at least they were pretending that they were tourists. … To achieve this, they sealed off the area, put themselves in flak jackets and walked in the middle of tens of armed American soldiers.”
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2007/04/04/11627/pence-baghdad/

Trump now has a Hillary wannabe as his VP. The Pence pick signals that Trump may not truly be committed to a more restrained foreign policy. It is really not that surprising because after the killing of 77 in Nice two days ago Trump said that this was now a “world war scenario” and, as president, he would seek a formal declaration of world war from Congress.
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/07/14/3798566/trump-muslim-blame-n
ice-france/

WISHIMAY

Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:50 AM

Him picking Pence scares the shit out of me. He gets elected and people will think they can throw gays off buildings.

I thought Trump was a twit before, and now all I see is an evil alliance.

The only winning move here is to rob a bank and leave the country...

REAVERFAN

Sunday, July 17, 2016 4:59 PM

Under Mike Pence, Indiana’s Economic Engine Has Stalled

INDIANAPOLIS – As Mike Pence and his attack-dog Eric Holcomb begin their “Start Your Engines Tour” today, it’s worth noting that under the governor’s first term in office – the state of Indiana and its economic engine have stalled.

Currently, Hoosiers earn just 86 cents on the dollar compared to the average American. That’s nearly $7,000 less per year. And Indiana’s per capita income dropped to 38th in the nation. With the state being ranked dead LAST in economic growth in the Midwest, Hoosier workers are left falling behind the rest of the nation.

“Mike Pence has touted various ranks and ratings to fit his out-of-touch view of the state’s economy, but the only figures Hoosiers care about are their incomes. Under Mike Pence, wages have fallen and the state’s economy has stalled,” said Drew Anderson, communications director. “Hoosiers already know the governor will always put his ideology ahead of what’s best for them. However, when will Governor Pence stop scaring good jobs away because of his radical social agenda? Mike Pence is simply not getting the job done, and bottom line – it continues to hurt Hoosier families.”

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: INDIANA IS FALLING BEHIND THE REST OF THE NATION

Overall State Economy

Indiana’s economy grew at a sluggish .4% rate in 2014. – [NWI Times, 6.10.15]
Indiana’s economy grew .5% or less three of last four years. – [NWI Times, 6.10.15]
Indiana ranks LAST in economic growth in the Midwest. – [NWI Times, 6.10.15]
Indiana ranks 38th in per capita income, down from 34th in 2004. – [NWI Times, 03.26.16]
Median Incomes: Wages have dropped from $53,500 in 2000 to $46,900 in 2013. – [U.S. Census]
Hoosiers make 86 cents for every one American dollar earned. – [Indianapolis Star, 6.1.15]
Indiana ranks 46th in quality of life, 42nd in workforce. – [CNBC]
About two thirds of minimum wage workers in Indiana are women. – [Forbes, 7, 2015]
Hoosier women make 75 cents for every dollar a man makes. – [AAUW, 2015]
African American households earn on average $21,000 less than white households. – [Indianapolis Star, 4.11.15]
Hispanic households make $15,000 less than white households. – [Indianapolis Star, 4.11.15]

Mike Pence’s RFRA

Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in a closed door ceremony [FOX 59, 3.26.15], throwing Indiana into a $250 million economic panic. – [The Advocate, 7.10.15]

Pence Repeals Common Construction Wage Law

Mike Pence and Statehouse Republicans repealed the common construction wage laws, allowing union worker wages to go down and the expanding wage gap continues to grow in our state. – [NWI Times, 5.6.15]
http://www.indems.org/under-mike-pence-indianas-economic-engine-has-st
alled/
Yeah, he's a real peach.

SECOND

Sunday, July 17, 2016 6:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Under Mike Pence, Indiana’s Economic Engine Has Stalled

www.indems.org/under-mike-pence-indianas-economic-engine-has-stalled/
Yeah, he's a real peach.

Looking at Pence’s resume says something bad about Trump, just as looking at Vice President Spiro Agnew said something bad about Nixon. If you pick a VP that goes bad, you got to assume some of the blame. But taking blame is not Trump’s style, is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew#Resignation

It may feel too soon to write about, but I don’t think President Trump will be rated as highly as President Nixon. But then Agnew was a better man than Pence is now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the
_United_States

SIGNYM

Sunday, July 17, 2016 7:14 PM

The way I view it, the VP choice is cheap life insurance. As in .... "If you want to assassinate me, just look who you get afterwards!" That would be the logical choice, and explains why McCain chose Palin, and why Obama chose Biden. So, what you do is decide which demographic that you're weakest in, and then choose the most extreme representative of that demographic to balance the ticket. Hmmm.... by that reasoning, Hillary should pick the same guy!

Other than that, I feel that no good comes from Indiana, except 6IX and WISHY.

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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can get a few more shekels in their pockets.

REAVERFAN

Sunday, July 17, 2016 8:18 PM

I've lived in Indiana for the past few years, caring for an elderly relative. I can vouch for the backwardness that is Mike Pence and his Christofascists in our government. They're scary, they're so dumb.

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