Pence dials back willingness to testify
to ‘very partisan’ Jan. 6 committee
Washington Times,
by
Seth Mclaughlin
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/21/2022 4:18:31 AM
DES MOINES — Former Vice President Mike Pence is tapping the brakes on his willingness to testify before the House Jan. 6 committee, saying he has to ponder “profound constitutional issues” and the partisan nature of the probe before agreeing to any request.
Mr. Pence recently surprised political analysts when he said he would consider testifying to the Democratic-led committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, chaos at the Capitol. But in an exclusive interview with The Washington Times, Mr. Pence took a more cautious line, saying there is a myriad of issues he must sort out before he agrees to talk to the panel.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
andyboy 8/21/2022 4:20:59 AM (No. 1254862)
Mike Pence is a man of integrity who acts on principle, and that's why I plan to support him for President. Just kidding.
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Pence is a lightweight coward and a rat. Testify to what? I suppose he is beginning to realize the depth of the hole he has dug for himself. That is if there is any merit to the article by The Washington Times.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SoldiersMom 8/21/2022 5:02:13 AM (No. 1254870)
Like Cheney, Pence's political career is over. He just doesn't realize it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
judy 8/21/2022 5:04:12 AM (No. 1254871)
He's more irritating than Liz!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PageTurner 8/21/2022 5:42:08 AM (No. 1254876)
He noticed those primary results.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/21/2022 6:07:55 AM (No. 1254892)
Ponder “profound constitutional issues” ?.....loosely translated.....I’ll be stickin’ my finger in the air.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/21/2022 6:35:32 AM (No. 1254902)
Don’t turn your back on this guy. If he believes it is politically expedient, he will say or do whatever it takes to benefit himself. I don’t trust him and certainly have zero respect for him.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MissNan 8/21/2022 6:36:00 AM (No. 1254903)
What a putz!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 8/21/2022 6:37:20 AM (No. 1254906)
Pence's political career is gone. On January 6th, all he had to do is tell the electors in the states with real problems to go back, fix the problems and reverify the count. Give them 20 days to do it. He did not, he chose to except the fraudulent certification from these states.
I hope the same thing happens to him as it did to Liz. I hope he fails badly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/21/2022 6:41:24 AM (No. 1254910)
He may be a mook, but he appears to be able to tell from whence the wind blows, just like almost every other politician.
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People who think they want to run for president have to stop doing things to enrage their potential voters.
News flash - his potential voters are very few and would not mind him trashing Trump.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/21/2022 6:57:04 AM (No. 1254918)
I think Little Mikie - - or one of his toadies - - reads what's posted on this forum.
Scares the bejeezis out of them.
27 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
janjan 8/21/2022 7:02:52 AM (No. 1254919)
He saw how well his comments about the FBI went over. Demanding that we all respect these obviously corrupt, jackbooted thugs in the wake of a totally politically driven search of Trump’s property. Next up he decides to wow Americans with a star guest appearance at the most blatantly partisan witch hunt since the Salem trials. Way to go Pence. Your political instincts are stellar.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 8/21/2022 7:03:20 AM (No. 1254920)
Didn't take him long to see the writing on the wall! Shows just how he will go whichever way the wind blows.Opportunist rather than principled as much as that is how he tried to present himself. Ya can't fool all the people all the time Pence, now it's goodbye and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/21/2022 7:20:06 AM (No. 1254926)
Paywall
When Pence was governor of Indiana, the state legislature passed a freedom of religion bill which would keep bakers, photographers, florists, etc from being sued for refusing to provide services for homosexual “weddings” based on their own religious beliefs. Pence signed the bill and the alphabet crowd went ape shiite on him. He caved and “unsigned” the bill. I never trusted him after that and was disappointed when PDT chose him as a running mate.
Here he goes again. SSDD
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/21/2022 7:45:29 AM (No. 1254940)
I really thought Pence was smarter that this. I was wrong.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Adam 8/21/2022 7:48:00 AM (No. 1254943)
I have no brief for Pence. He’s just another pol, as far as I’m concerned, but I have to laugh at his haters who fantasize that he had any legal, constitutional authority to do anything other than what he did on 1/6. He accepted the objections. He sent the matter back to the state delegations. They returned with their final counts. That’s all he could do. One poster said Pence was supposed to just invent from thin air a 20 day postponement, which would extend past Inauguration Day. Lunatic fringe thinking.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/21/2022 7:57:49 AM (No. 1254950)
Sounds like more weasel words from the Pencester. "...saying he has to ponder...". A former vp has to "ponder" something?
How about "ponder" what just happened at Mar A Lago, sir, because the same thing could happen to you someday. But since your political career is long since over, the dims, msm, fbi, and doj will probably leave you alone.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/21/2022 8:15:10 AM (No. 1254964)
If he doesn't do it, there has to be a reason testifying doesn't benefit Pencil; he only cares about himself. He's probably trying hard to figure out how to not reveal how he was working with the deep state the whole time.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Californian 8/21/2022 8:15:33 AM (No. 1254965)
Because being a swamp creature with a tin ear it was a big surprise to hear the blow back he got from people he'll need to support him for his already failed 2024 presidential run.
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So Please Clap II stuck his finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
He’s more pathetic than Myth Romney, and that guy is a windmill.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
thomthomp 8/21/2022 9:53:28 AM (No. 1255066)
"There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
Mike Pence missed the tide.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
David Key 8/21/2022 9:57:47 AM (No. 1255071)
I have just one word for mr Pence. RETIRE.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 8/21/2022 10:06:42 AM (No. 1255082)
There is nothing that Pence can do in the short term to "fix" his support. He has been discovered as a likely undercover Deep State plant in the Trump campaign, or, at best, a weak kneed nothing who bends with the political pressures applied by the Deep State very easily.
Either way, he's useless to us and should never get another vote for any office.
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Tuppence. Mike Tuppence.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/21/2022 10:50:57 AM (No. 1255133)
Fence-sitting has only one inevitable end. Loss of career.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/21/2022 10:56:56 AM (No. 1255142)
Technically you are correct, #17. What the democrats did in stealing an election from a highly popular and successful president was perfectly constitutional and acceptable, wasn't it?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Brunsong 8/21/2022 10:59:42 AM (No. 1255146)
Poor Pitiful Pence. Absolutely delusional concerning his presidential aspirations, About as likely as the NCAA nominating him for woman athlete of the year 😂
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/21/2022 11:24:07 AM (No. 1255170)
Once a gutless weak cowardly man always a gutless weak cowardly man. Come on Judas maybe Schumer and Cheney will pay you thirty pieces of silver to show up and give false testimony against Trump. They you can crucify him with great joy.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
moebellini3 8/21/2022 12:01:05 PM (No. 1255213)
He should have never opened his mouth. There was no reason to.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 8/21/2022 12:21:09 PM (No. 1255239)
Re #25, no, no, no Ha'pence. Not two, half.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
NYbob 8/21/2022 1:37:19 PM (No. 1255330)
How do you mount a Presidential campaign on being boring, stupid, low energy and a coward?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/21/2022 1:40:05 PM (No. 1255333)
I will go with Trump on this one.
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Even setting aside his role on January 6th-- since even the Great One, Mark Levin, says the Constitution is ambiguous in this area-- Pence is too weak to ever be Prez. And I suspect he really means he needs to 'pander' on constitutional issues--
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Rather ironic that Judas Pence is suddenly worried about constitutional issues now. I think it is more likely his office phones have melted from all the heat of furious citizens.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/21/2022 6:26:15 PM (No. 1255518)
The "issues" pence is contemplating is what is his future in the Republican Party and what will he do the rest of his life....perhaps he should consult with Lizzie cheney...and they can form another party...if she is Abrahm Lincoln ...then perhaps he's Benedict Arnold....
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
A.I. 8/21/2022 7:10:25 PM (No. 1255551)
Of course, pence doesn’t want to suffer the same fate as liz. Too late.
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Mikey finally looked at a Twit and realized that his “base” of Repubbbblicans” despise him. Had to “change course” alas, to no avail.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/22/2022 9:01:03 AM (No. 1255901)
Don't do it Mikey...they will twist everything you say to a LIE!
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