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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith all the new revelations, can we say, then, that Pence saved the Republic?
phylny
(8,380 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)from Thanksgiving.
agingdem
(7,849 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 25, 2021, 08:37 PM - Edit history (1)
that's why he called Quayle...he whined that he was in a shit position...he wanted to please Trump but constitutionally he could not...in the end he didn't have the balls to obey the orange idiot and he paid the price...you can bet Trump would have loved to see Pence hanging from a rope
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)ConstanceCee
(314 posts)Or maybe Dan Quayle.
Kaleva
(36,298 posts)question everything
(47,476 posts)But I am not sure: Did Pence ask his advice?
Of course, compared to Whinny Donny, Bush Sr. was an honorable statesman.
dsc
(52,161 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)And I can't believe I would have ever have posted this.
Who knew that Quayle would be a voice of Republicanism past? He was an idiot back when Bush felt sorry and picked this clown. I remember thinking. why would you pick a moron as your second....what if Bush died while in office?
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)Should HW ever be called to account for crimes committed during the Reagan Administration.
Takket
(21,563 posts)the electoral college doesn't need his approval of their votes.
i think if the constitution said something like "the vice president can throw out any state's electors if they feel they are corrupt", then drumpf would have pulled off his coup.
question everything
(47,476 posts)Somehow I cannot see Pence with much of legal knowledge, mostly following instructions.
Kaleva
(36,298 posts)Even after it was explained to them that Pence had no such power, they'd repeat the claim in later threads.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)Javaman
(62,525 posts)question everything
(47,476 posts)Shermann
(7,413 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)because that was an option be could have taken without being "part of the coup", but which would have delayed the proper process.
"I'm not leaving the Capitol," he told Giebels, according to the book.
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Pence refused to get in the car. "I trust you, Tim, but you're not driving the car," Pence told Giebels, the book says. "If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I'm not getting in the car."
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"We need to get back tonight," Pence told top lawmakers and defense officials on a call, according to the book. "We can't let the world see that our process of confirming the next president can be delayed."
https://news.yahoo.com/mike-pence-refused-leave-capitol-205925651.html
It's not that he was special in doing that (as the article says, Pelosi and McConnell wanted to finish that day too), but it was vital that he be there.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)Fyrefox
(300 posts)Isnt it a sad state of affairs when anyone would turn to Dan Quayle for advice?
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Trump tried to push pence into doing the wrong thing. But it should not ever have come to this.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Including me, you, and Pence.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)He knew tfg was too unstable to continue to be president but still refused to "25th" him.