Despite Dissent From GOP Ranks, Pence Calls For Support Of National Emergency

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Vice President Mike Pence, always the loyal foot soldier, ignored the brewing insurrection within Republican ranks over the border wall national emergency declaration, making a full-throated call at CPAC for congressional support of the move.

“Today we call on every member of Congress to stand up for border security, stop playing politics with the security of the American people, and stand with President Trump for a stronger and safer America,” he said to raucous applause Friday.

The GOP-led Senate seems unlikely to acquiesce to Pence’s wishes, as more reports surface that a sufficient number of Republicans are willing to block President Donald Trump’s unilateral move in what would be a thoroughly embarrassing episode for the administration.

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  1. This one’s going down. too.

  2. And here I thought VP Pence would use this platform to tell attendees that the bible condones this treatment of people from other Christian countries seeking refuge. And especially the way we treat the least among us-the children.

  3. So much for being the Q-Tip of the Trump spear…

  4. Pence ignores signs of growing dissent within GOP ranks

    GOP ranks, in turn, ignore Pence.

    ETA: it made little sense for Rump to put Q-Tip Man on the ticket with him because Rump had the fundy nut jobs in his pocket even without him AND he has no pull with Congress.except to function as tiebreaker.

  5. Pence’s day job:

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