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.
Screw you, Traitor Pence!
He could be the greatest thing ever. I still won’t vote for him
Milquetoast
Go ahead and piss away the money, Pence.
Outside of Fauxi and pedoJoe himself, you’re the most despised POS in the country.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha, give it up now Mikey. No chance in hell.
Six Pence has no other qualification to earn a living.. but to run for office.. now he could, go into the preaching business.. because he has spent his life pretending to be a ‘holy Joe’. Politics and preaching are easy means to fill up one’s bank account
Not a chance in hell is the traitor getting my vote or the vote of anyone in my immediate family. Bet.
What Law(s) did Pence violate?
For example, on January 6th he oversaw the opening of 51 sets of Electoral Votes from DC/States. On each of them he gave all of the Senators/Representatives a fair chance to object. They did on about 3 of them with at least 1 Senator and at least 1 Representative. Both Houses had their debates. None of the objections were sustained. Pence ruled accordingly. It wasn’t his right to interject his personal opinions over the rule of law. His duty was to his Oath of Office. Congress had spoken clearly. So, he had to rule as he ruled.
Now personally I think that it’s very likely that some of these objections, perhaps enough to have denied Biden 270, looked very likely to have been correct. We just will never know for sure to all the obfuscations/corruption we saw in the 2020 Elections :( However that’s my personal opinion. The Law on this is very clear. And that’s the Law that the members of Congress & Pence himself took an Oath of Office to uphold/defend. We elect Congress to make the tough calls that must be made on “January 6th” every quadrennial to establish the 2 tops slots of succession in the Presidency for the next 4 years starting January 20th noon when the previous 2 top slot holders’ terms expire. If we don’t like how Congress voted on the objections then we did a poor job on getting the right ones elected to Congress in the first place.
Does Pence not realize he is a big joke, that no one likes him?
It’s better to just focus on the Constitution instead of personalities like Trump. This website is called freerepublic, not DictatorRepublic, for a reason. It should never be about “has the person betrayed Trump” or any other person. That’s what happens in a Dictatorship. What it should be about is “has the person betrayed the Constitution”.
Trump knows, just as does anyone committed to having free/representative government, that the loyalty of the people should never be to any personality. The loyalty should be to the Constitution.
This fake sanctioned the theft of a presidency… our Constitution provides US the right to vote, it does not provide wholesale theft of our vote.. stop playing around with the systemic destruction of our Constitution…
A campaign that begins with a big announcement on April 1st seems a bit oblivious to the calendar, but that’s a theme that was established on January 6th, 2021.
Pants/Fauxi 2024!
Amen Just!
That Garrison cartoon is perfect/
First thing out of his mouth was to condemn Trump supporters. If he was any kind of leader he would have said a few should be condemned but Trump supporters are not violent. Pence not only betrayed Trump he also betrayed all those who support Trump. That weak limp #@$k stabbed all of us in the back and today there are still people in jail who have not been given a trial. Pence is worthless.
Nice try Mikey, but you are a weak sister.
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