Posted on 04/01/2022 7:57:24 PM PDT by conservative98
As former Vice President Mike Pence positions himself for a possible presidential race, he is setting a great example of substance of the sort that the public should demand from all White House aspirants.
On Thursday, Pence’s Advancing American Freedom organization launched a “Freedom Agenda” featuring what, by modern standards, is a remarkable amount of depth and specificity. Readers may also be struck by how much its tone sounds Reaganesque, more focused on what the group (and thus Pence) is for than what it opposes.
The agenda is divided into three sections: American culture, American opportunity, and American leadership. Each section is further divided into multiple subsections, each of which (usually) contains multiple specific policy prescriptions.
For example, one of 10 (!) subsections under the “American Opportunity” rubric is this: “Give American families the opportunity to achieve the American dream by having the freedom to pursue the best education options for their children.” That subsection, in turn, features four bullet points, one of which is further subdivided into three subpoints.
Thus we learn, among other things, that Pence (or his organization) will “support universal school choice. Fund education scholarship accounts which parents and children can use for the school of their choice and/or accredited and supplemental learning outside of the classroom.” And students should be allowed to “attend the public school of their choice and [be] provid[ed with] credit for learning outside of the classroom.” And for vocational education and training, among several ideas, Pence says that “public resources that target workforce development should be made more flexible by creating relocation vouchers so Americans can easily relocate to places of greater opportunity.”
Now I’ve never heard of a relocation voucher before, but it sounds like a terrific idea. And this idea, like many in the Freedom Agenda, calls to mind the creative, can-do approach of the late Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp. Kemp was famous for his crusading determination to leverage a nimble and streamlined government, without bureaucratic straitjackets and complicated mandates, to facilitate opportunities for people from all walks of life. Pence, like Kemp, is big on encouraging private initiative rather than creating public dependency.
Most conservatives will applaud just about the entire agenda. Here, Pence calls for making the Trump/Pence tax cuts permanent rather than expiring in 2025. There, he calls for “drastically” streamlining the federal permitting process so that large infrastructure projects can be completed far more quickly. Elsewhere, he wants to “pass a law to require the elimination of at least two regulations for every new federal regulation.”
The agenda is bullish on domestic energy production, eager to modernize patenting to promote entrepreneurship and fight intellectual property theft, supportive of expanded health savings accounts, and specific about procedural changes needed to get federal spending under control.
Pence embraces cultural issues, too, with paeans to religious liberty, tough sentencing for violent criminals, and strict border controls, along with opposition to tommyrot such as critical race theory, speech codes, and transgender participation in women’s sports.
Finally, the “American Leadership” section opposes wokeness in the military, demands a Navy buildup back to 350 ships, and outlines a veritable cornucopia of ways to counter the malignant designs of China, Russia, and Iran.
In 21 years in elective office and more than a decade before that in other forms of public engagement with public policy, Pence has always been forthright and prescriptive about his beliefs. To borrow a phrase from columnist George Will from 34 years ago, Pence’s "substance-to-blather ratio" always has been remarkably high and admirable. His Freedom Agenda makes him the very model of a man serious about his public duty.
You’re correct in everything! In my head, I believed that my post implied all of that, but when I post via cell phone, I keep it short. Guess I should’ve been clearer. Pence betrayed the entire world with his 1/6 action. And will anybody EVER know the scope of his betrayal and treason from 2016 to 2021? I don’t think so; he’s a sneaky bastard.
Pence might want to create an illusion of “BOLD”...
But he just doesn’t have the history of such.
Hard to suddenly find a spine at his age.
IT is time AGAIN for a President who WILL: TAKE NO PRISONERS in getting this country back on track.
I see ONLY Trump able to do that.
Same here. If the GOP establishment puts Pence or another Bush clone in as the candidate don’t come at conservatives with the it’s your obligation/duty/loyalty whatever to vote for the GOP candidate or you support the Democrats. After their behavior with Trump that load of manure isn’t going to fly. After Roberts, Crying Kavanagh and blank page Commie Comey your vote for our GOP scuzebag for conservative judges is gone as well.
Here’s a hint we’re not voting for your leftist Bush, McRomney, Pence turds anymore and if you nominate them and get your butts handed too you the ass kicking you get is on you.
Love Ben Garrison. A good one!
I’m not here to praise or condemn Trump on this thread. I’m just here to explain that I believe our loyalties should be to the Constitution, not any person.
And yet not a word about dismantling the criminal deep state.
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Very good point! Which proves he’s part of the Deep State.
Does Pence not realize he is a big joke, that no one likes him?
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He doesn’t care. He’s another tool of Golden Sacks and the rest of the Donor class.
Romney, Pence, Jeb, Christy take their occasional pots shots at President Trump — and are duly paid. Every once in a long while, Ted Cruz steps in to comment, but Golden Sacks wants Cruz protected somewhat in order to run him against DeSantis in 2028.
Follow the money.
100%
Sorry, not seen as a candidate for this office.
A Not Ready for Prime Time Player.
Bill Barr is a master of conservative rhetoric. To hear him speak, you would almost think he is channeling Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. But there is an old saying, Talk is cheap. Both Barr and Pence are proofs of that saying.
There is only one issue worth talking about: Deep State and Media Corruption.
And who is the only politician addressing it? President Trump.
4/2/2022, 12:26:23 AM · 75 of 132
altura to conservative98
Nope, no Pence. Not ever. He failed to stand up for Trump and he won’t stand up for America.
RIP, Mary.
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