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babylonsister

(171,035 posts)
Thu May 10, 2018, 06:38 AM May 2018

The Worst Person In Government?

https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/09/the-worst-person-in-government/

The Worst Person In Government?
May 9, 2018 at 8:43 pm EDT
By Taegan Goddard


George Will: “Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing.”

“There will be negligible legislating by the next Congress, so ballots cast this November will be most important as validations or repudiations of the harmonizing voices of Trump, Pence, Arpaio and the like. Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic. Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying.”
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The Worst Person In Government? (Original Post) babylonsister May 2018 OP
Person In Government LuvNewcastle May 2018 #1
Good catch. dchill May 2018 #8
Oleaginous person in government? DemoTex May 2018 #10
Groveling (to nazis) as governing. Mc Mike May 2018 #2
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2018 #3
Hey, Uncle Joe!! babylonsister May 2018 #5
It's good to see you again babylonsister Uncle Joe May 2018 #6
Pence is an Iago, watching from the sidelines, waiting for his moment to step in and take over. Nitram May 2018 #4
But didn't the play end... yallerdawg May 2018 #9
I've been assuming Pence would have no credibility or authority if he got the job after an Nitram May 2018 #11
Tell us how you really feel George Dorn May 2018 #7

Mc Mike

(9,111 posts)
2. Groveling (to nazis) as governing.
Thu May 10, 2018, 07:40 AM
May 2018

But he's a bircher nazi himself, so no conflict of interest, there.

I prefer 'low, animal cunning' to 'feral cunning', if we're using descriptive phrases for hair hitler.

Nitram

(22,765 posts)
11. I've been assuming Pence would have no credibility or authority if he got the job after an
Thu May 10, 2018, 02:53 PM
May 2018

impeachment. Also hoping that he'd be implicated by the same evidence that took Trump down.

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