Instead I just mentally THWAPPED HIM!
THE PORT DEAL
PENCE: On this deal (the Port Deal), I just think the president was ill-served by an antiquated process in the so-called CFI plan that Chairman Hunter refers to. We simply ought to talk in an orderly way about changing that in ways that reflect the post-9/11 world. This new homeland security report confirms what the common sense of the American people felt about this deal, that while we cherish our relationship with the United Arab Emirates, that this was just a bridge too far in that new relationship given some of their troubling associations in the past. (. . . PENCE IS POPULIST - THUS A POTENTIAL NEW REPULBICAN AND PRESIDENT . . . )
PENCE: Well, it wouldn't be the first time that House conservatives disagreed with this administration, Chris. . . (EVERYONE IS GETTING SICK OF BUSHIES) . . . Many of us broke with the president on the expansion of the Education Department and No Child Left Behind, and a few dozen of us broke with the president when he advanced the creation of the first new entitlement in the Medicare prescription drug bill. What we put out this week we actually call the Contract With America Renewed ( . . . COOL! . . . ), because it was based on the budget that the brand new Republican majority passed out of the House of Representatives in 1995. We balanced the budget in five years. It is significantly more aggressive than the budget that the president sent to the Hill. But, Chris, I really believe that we are in danger of becoming the party of big government (. . . GO PENCE! . . .). And despite the fact that we just passed the first deficit reduction bill since 1997, I think the American people long for leadership, independent leadership, on Capitol Hill that hews to the conservative principles that minted this majority in 1994.
ILLEGAL ALIENS
WALLACE: Let me ask you about another issue, immigration. ( . . . ILLEGAL ALIENS . . .) … The president wants a guest worker program to provide a basis for immigrants to work in this country. Are you going to support that?
PENCE: ( . . . HELL NO! . . . ) . . . Well, just as many Americans that feel that we can't control spending worry that we won't control the border, and I along with many House conservatives believe that the first priority of our government in this immigration issue is to secure our borders ( . . . BINGO! . . .) . A nation without borders is not a nation. But once we secure our borders and the American people are confident that we have control of the south ( . . . e.g. MEXICO . . .), in particular, I believe that we will be able to have a rational national debate about what to do with the 8 million to 10 million souls that are here.
WALLACE: Given these issues, Congressman Pence, and given past concerns when it came to Social Security, or the Miers nomination or the Katrina response, are Republicans moving away from this president? Is Mr. Bush becoming a lame duck?
BUSH IS A LAME DUCK
PENCE: Well, I don't believe this president's a lame anything. He is a determined and focused leader who is going to continue to be that energetic executive that the American people have come to appreciate. I think what you're actually seeing is that the Congress is simply beginning to step back up to its truly independent role (. . . In other words, BUSH IS A LAME DUCK). You know, I always tell those eighth grade kids that I give tours of the Capitol to that the Congress (. . . BUSH ? . . .), even if it's of the same party (. . . BUSH? . . .), doesn't work for the president of the United States, that they are two co- equal branches of government. And to some extent, I think what you see here is a very healthy constitutional friction that our founders contemplated ( . . . WE’RE MAD AS HELL AND WE AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE . . .)
WALLACE: Congressman Pence, I want to show you a comment by one of your colleagues. Take a look at this. Republican Congressman Tom Davis said this week, "This is probably the worst administration ever in getting Congress' opinion on anything." Truth to tell, has this White House been high-handed in dealing with Congress and has that caught up with the White House?
PENCE: I really don't think so (. . . BUT THANKS ! . . .). I mean, I disagreed with the president along with a few others on his top priority during the first session of Congress, No Child Left Behind. I disagreed with him on the creation of the new Medicare entitlement. If anybody... ( . . . WELL, ACTUALLY . . . HE IS THE WORST . . . IF ANYBODY, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN . . .)
WALLACE: You disagree with him on the budget. You disagree with him on...
PENCE: Well, yes. ( . . . I MEAN, DUH, NO KIDDING I DO . . . )
WALLACE: ... immigration. You disagree with him on ports.
PENCE: . . . I've been in Congress for five years. I really do believe that what you are seeing happen is not that the president has changed, but that Congress is beginning to assume that independent role that our founders contemplated here. (. . . HURRAY! . . . ) And whether it be Duncan Hunter's leadership on Dubai Ports World or what House conservatives are doing on trying to reassert fiscal discipline, I think this is really the kind of friction between the two co-equal branches of government that our founders contemplated. (. . . AND YOU CAN EXPECT MORE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT AMERICANS ARE DEMANDING . . . AND, IT’S CALLED POPULISM . . . AND IT IS WHAT WINS ELECTIONS IN 2006 and 2008) . . .
( . . . AND PENCE IS ON BOARD . . . AND HE ISN’T ALONE . . . AND HE ISN’T A LAME DUCK)
what kind of person WANTS the President, especially at this critical of a time in Iraq and other foreign relations, to be seen as a Lame Duck?
I can understand why the Democrats want too see that, it only strengthens their position, but why anyone on the RIGHT? It makes no sense.
Sounds very interesting.
go to pence08.com
Cherish? I wouldn't guess that he even respects the relationship let alone cherish.
Instead I just mentally THWAPPED HIM!
Next time, why not leave out the editorializing and let Pence's words speak for themselves.
I could do without your editorial comments interspersed within the transcripts.
I certainly hope Pence is kidding, because that report just demonstrated that since 9/11 Congress has allowed port security to continue to languish.
Excuse me but you forgot the 'BARF ALERT' in your headline!
Ignore the Bush-bot critics, nice post! I like the FNS interview, too. Pence sounded very good. :)
I would like to see him run, but I'm assuming it's more likely going to be an Allen/Pence...hopefully.
Amen, Mike.
Pence is an honest-to-goodness, principled politician who most emulates the tenets of the Founders, and will battle to hold the fort against RINOs and the compromising globalist affliction known as "compassionate-conservativitis."
The next President will not be from Congress.
When to make your guy unpopular with the Republican Activists. In case the Whine All The Time missed it, Bush won 2xs. Rabidly screaming stupid slogans and mindless hate Bush is pretty much a sure way to LOSE support for your guy. The Knee Jerks should put their emotional hysteria on hold. Reagan understood how to win. That is why he did NOT run around after losing in 1976 bad mouthing Bush. All this bile and spite does is make people who actually NOMINATE the canidate in 2008 think your guy is a frindge Buchannaite wacko.
