The Wall between Church and State
May 12, 2017
While I take a few days to
process the Watergate Cover-up 2.0 – or as it will soon be known, Don Chrump’s
Comey-over – let me whet your whistle with what is behind Door #2. Yes, that’s
right; you’ve won a 165-week joy ride with none other than The Man From Sad –
the homophobic, Cro-Magnon-who-cannot-have-lunch-with-a-woman-unless-his-wife-is-in-the-room
(one presumes pleasuring herself), and soon-to-be-theocratic ruler of the
country formerly known as America – Mike Pence. Sure, he looks inocuous. In
fact, in most lighting he is barely visible, but his religious fanaticism, once
let loose in the White House, will make you see all manner of things better
left unseen. In just a few short months he will become the first un-elected
president since Gerald Ford…I mean George W. Bush…I mean Donald Chrump. After
that it is anyone’s guess how long our country will even vaguely resemble a
diverse, democratic, secular society. Thanks Obama.
Radical Christian Extremist
Mike Pence frequently and
fervently attacked what Republican’ts insisted were Hillary Clinton’s emails of
mass destruction on the campaign trail. How dare she use a private server and
email account to conduct official business. Pence was not part of Chrump’s
actual “Lock her up” chorus, but his feelings on the matter were clear enough. He
described as "troubling" and "incomprehensible" the FBI's
decision not to bring charges against Clinton for her heinous electronic
transgressions. Former FBI Director James Comey, no Clinton fan, infamously
shot off his mouth to a Senate committee, opining that Hillary had behaved
“negligently” with her email (This would later cause him to become “slightly
nauseous.), after testifying in no uncertain terms that there was insufficient
evidence to bring charges against Clinton. Funny thing; Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
– who happens to be the same Mike Pence who is now president-in-waiting – used his personal AOL (Really? AOL? LOL)
account to conduct some amount of government business, including homeland
security issues.
Those in the know claim that
security-conscious users should avoid AOL Mail. This might be the reason Pence
is withholding, or orchestrating the withholding of, some number of emails from
his AOL account to this day. Pence insists that his use of a personal account
to conduct government business is legal, which is true. You know, because he is
not Hillary Clinton. However, his behavior seems surprisingly negligent to me.
Oh, and did I mention that his AOL account was hacked? I should have.
Unfortunately, I have to admit that it is troubling and incomprehensible for
charges not to be brought against Pence for putting our nation at risk with his
cavalier use of emails.
Pence tried and failed to get
Planned Parenthood defunded in Congress, but he succeded in defunding it as
governor of Indiana. He was also accused of using the Indiana State Police to
suppress African American votes.
More recently Pence lied to
reporters about not knowing that Mike Flynn was cavorting with the Russians…and
Turkey. Pence was in charge of the Chrump transition team and undoubtedly knew
of Flynn’s dalliances, double-dealing and douchebaggery. They don’t call him
the Swamp Marsmallow for nothing. (Disclaimer: I am not sure anyone actually
calls him the Swamp Marshmallow, but it is never too late to start.)
Mike Pence, official portrait
Pence’s Year of Living Stupidly
In 2000 Pence, then running for an open U.S. House seat, proposed using HIV/AIDS funding for “gay conversion
therapy”, which has been thoroughly debunked. Gov. Pence signed into law
legislation that allowed businesses, organizations and individuals to
discriminate against people on religious grounds. This of course was easily
seen-through window dressing for anti-gay legislation. He not only supported
legislation banning same-sex marriage, but wanted to jail same-sex couples who
dared apply for a marriage license. Pence also opposed repealing “don’t ask,
don’t tell” and railed against the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes bill. This is
just the tip of the Pence anti-gay hate-berg. He may be a toxic homophobe, but
at least Pence was willing to stand up for another group that takes a great
deal of abuse from people everywhere – the tobacco industry.
Also in 2000, Pence came
out against a proposed settlement between government and the tobacco
industry, because it was “big government” interference in people’s lives – you
know like same sex marriage or abortion rights. He wrote: “Time for a quick
reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media,
smoking doesn’t kill.” Pence received at least $13,000 in contributions from
tobacco-friendly groups, including a $1,000 check from R.J. Reynolds, who
praised the Indiana governor for his “position on issues important to our
company.” While there is no proof that Pence went on to say that smoking is
better for you than being gay, let us assume that he did.
He is everywhere and nowhere at the same time
Chrump, The Orange Gas Cloud,
has no substance, no actual policy positions, and just spews fumes wherever he
goes. He will take any position that keeps him on television and makes people
who do not know any better yell, “Lock her up!”, “Build the wall!”, or “Ban the
Muslims!” or just simply “Chrump, Chrump, Chrump!” Pence on the other hand is a
seasoned Washington insider. He has very consistent positions some of which I
have mentioned above and others I am sure we would never want to know let alone
lie under. He is likely more dangerous that his happy-go-fucky boss, whose only
concerns are his popularity, his ability to keep showing up on the TV and, most
important of all, his “hair”. Pence also knows better than to stay up all night
watching the likes of Sean Hannity, Fux and Friends, Alex Jones and Breitbart,
and then tweeting the most pathetic drivel one might expect after a week-long
bender, let alone from the (gulp) president of the United States. The imminent demise
of Donald Chrump should not be hoped for too vigorously because the
second-in-command is, in many ways, the evil of two lessers. I say, “Keep him
in, keep him in, keep him in!”…until just before the mid-term elections next
year. I want every voter to be thinking about Donald J. Chrump when the rush to
the voting booth to repeal and replace Congress next November. With any luck he
will not have started Word War III before then.
I like him better as a gas, not a mushroom cloud.
I. Mangrey reporting. There
is no easy way out.
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