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Mike Pence, A Legend In His Time

by Jim Newell  9:28 pm November 7, 2009

GOP Super-Star Rep. Mike Pence recently delivered the most comical speech of the day, for five minutes. It took him wayyyyy too long to post it on his own YouTube channel, but ta-da! He challenged the Blue Dogs to fight for freedom, and the troops, and also Ronald Reagan and liberty. No one has ever pretended to be so serious. Oh man. Gets better towards the end, too. [YouTube]

{ 33 comments }

obfuscator November 7, 2009 at 9:37 pm

what a disingenuous peckerhead.

peggynoonansrickshaw November 7, 2009 at 9:37 pm

what the fuck is that red, sweaty swamp toad in the top right hand corner?

Internally valid November 7, 2009 at 10:04 pm

John Shadegg, I see your random baby prop and raise you a kid with cancer and every WWII veteran ever. Your move, sir.

bago November 7, 2009 at 10:08 pm

I raise you a gin and tonic every time Boehner mentions a page number. Oh, Shi–!

Potater November 7, 2009 at 10:08 pm

[re=453182]peggynoonansrickshaw[/re]: ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

TheCoolestGuyInTown November 7, 2009 at 10:12 pm

He doesn’t even mention the provision about compulsory abortions every 2 years for stem cell harvesting.

That’s in the bill. READ IT!!!

KeepHopeyAlive November 7, 2009 at 10:22 pm

[re=453182]peggynoonansrickshaw[/re]:

No idea, but from the looks of it he won’t live to see the northern aggressors get their precious health care bill passed.

drpangloss November 7, 2009 at 10:23 pm

Who is Mike Pen-is schilling for today?

BeWoot November 7, 2009 at 10:51 pm

I’m gettin’ all misty, Dobe. I just thank God all those old veterans have refused to participate in VA programs and Medicare to set an example for young rightwing cancer patient assholes all over this great land of ours.

Schadenfried November 7, 2009 at 11:12 pm

He looks like a gay elf. That is all.

Aurelio November 7, 2009 at 11:20 pm

This guy is the face of American fascism.

Aurelio November 7, 2009 at 11:22 pm

Mike Pence was mentioned as a possible candidate for President in 2008. However, he did not run for President. In June 2009, an MSNBC political blog listed him as one of a dozen or so possible Republican candidates for President in 2012. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence

desertwind November 7, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Who’s the sweaty fat fuck?

rambone November 8, 2009 at 12:03 am

So, when Braveheart was shouting “freedom!” he was actually refusing to allow the socialized medicine doctors to sew him back up. Suddenly that movie makes much more sense.

whenPUMAsattack November 8, 2009 at 12:16 am

[re=453242]desertwind[/re]: Seriously. Also, is that drool on his left cheek or just another part of the jowls of life?

suchsweetthunder November 8, 2009 at 12:41 am

[re=453201]Internally valid[/re]: I can’t imagine how black your soul would have to be to use a member of your family who is being DENIED coverage as a prop. This is proof, real proof, of the moral character of our elected officials.

Words November 8, 2009 at 12:52 am

All those old, white men…….

Judas Peckerwood November 8, 2009 at 1:02 am

Scary, but not nearly as scary as that reanimated Smithfield ham that someone stuffed in a gray suit and stuck behind him. Seriously, GOP, suit-wearing ham zombies — WTF?!!!

marley November 8, 2009 at 1:08 am

I would so love to know all about those times that he “went against his party and his president on a major piece of legislation.”

Yeah right.

magpie November 8, 2009 at 1:20 am

this man scares me

Uncle Glenny November 8, 2009 at 1:40 am

The insurance company wouldn’t dare deny his cousin the experimental treatment now.

Crazy Like Fox November 8, 2009 at 2:02 am

What, shit, Mike Pence’s cousin Mike is “scared to hell” of the health care bill. Vote canceled.

Let’s play a game: every time the Republicans discuss the worst-case-scenario a public option could yield, replace the terms “Washington,” “government,” “bureaucrat,” etc. with “your current health-insurance company.”

Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX): “Washington will ultimately decide what doctors you can see, what treatments you deserve . . . and, when you’re sick, will you be worth their cost?”

So, in sum: in the paranoid minds of the fringy types, America will wind up with a health-care system almost as awful as the status quo.

Admittedly, a terrifying thought.

SkoalRebel November 8, 2009 at 2:08 am

“As my cousin Ronaldus Magnus once said, ‘giving the uninsured a healthcare option will kill freedom on behalf of gays.’”

SkoalRebel November 8, 2009 at 2:10 am

[re=453308]SkoalRebel[/re]: “…teh gayz.”

Excuse me. We must get the quote right.

SayItWithWookies November 8, 2009 at 4:58 am

[re=453233]Aurelio[/re]: That same article reminds us of this incident, where John McCain wandered around in an Iraqi market protected by a company of soldiers and six helicopters, and pronounced the place safe. Mike Pence was there, and said it was “like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime.”

Also, healthcare is fascism. The man is nothing if not dead-on.

Extemporanus November 8, 2009 at 5:19 am

Speaking as someone who—like Johnny Cougar—was born in a small town (Bloomington, Indian, to be exact), I would just like to say that Mike Pence is a total fucking Loosier.

Larry McAwful November 8, 2009 at 9:41 am

He wants to reach out to his “Democrat [sic] colleagues” in the interest of niceness and bipartisanship. He thought we wouldn’t notice the antagonistic adjective that right-wingers invented to taunt members of the Democratic party! Very clever! That’s the only reason I suspect that Mr. Pence might be a tad big disingenuous here. Everything else was appropriately mawkish and flag-draped, as all true patriots have a right–no, a duty–to expect.

InKnockYouUs November 8, 2009 at 10:27 am

The Pelosi health care bill targets us where we are most vulnerable? Ouch.

germansteel November 8, 2009 at 10:53 am

I refuse to watch it. I don’t need to. I know exactly what a consumate retard like Pence would say on the occasion of this bill and any other that is not Rush Limbaugh approved.

What a twat.

ttommyunger November 8, 2009 at 11:28 am

Republican pretty boy and 2012 wannabee Pence, I suspect, has a wider stance than any of his colleagues in the Senate (bathroom).

Aurelio November 8, 2009 at 1:25 pm

[re=453367]SayItWithWookies[/re]: the article: “The most deeply moving thing for me was to mix and mingle unfettered,” Mr. Pence said. I’ll bet he gets the same feeling when he takes off his ball gag and leather handcuffs at an orgy in back in Muncie.

What Fresh Hell is This? November 8, 2009 at 7:17 pm

Red-Faced Toad’s side conversation reminds me of the chat that Mike Duvall had about Heidi Barsuglia’s eye-patch underwear. All the lads behind Pence are having a grand time talking about liquor and ladies, I would imagine.

Are there no Wonketteers who can read lips?

WideStance November 9, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Can someone please explain how passage of the health care bill will result in “unnecessary intrustion of the government” into the lives of Americans?

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