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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNote to Pence- Overseas we are all Americans. Shame on you.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/msnbc-panel-blisters-mike-pence-for-using-troops-as-props-to-attack-democrats-on-shutdown/Panelists on MSNBCs Morning Joe were aghast that Vice President Mike Pence launched a partisan attack on congressional Democrats during a speech to military service members during a visit to the Middle East.
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Pence told U.S. troops stationed overseas that Democrats were to blame for the government shutdown, and he accused them of playing politics with military pay as a ploy to promote illegal immigration.
The fact that vice president of United States would launch a partisan attack against another party in front of troops overseas is unspeakably bad and is corrosive, said host Joe Scarborough. The fact that Mike Pence did that after (Sen.) Claire McCaskill (D-MO) tried to get her amendment on the floor to guarantee (service members) that very pay and that Republicans killed it by not allowing that vote makes it even more corrosive.
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Vinca
(50,278 posts)overseas or otherwise away from the original crime family. That obviously doesn't make him any smarter.
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)This administration and its enablers just can't keep out of the gutter, can they? Can anyone imagine Joe Biden disparaging Republicans to the armed forces overseas? Totally appalling.
DFW
(54,403 posts)That pair makes a combination of oil and water seem downright soluble.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)I was always told, "Party differences end at the nation's shore."
Pence's momma clearly did not raise him to have manners, decency, or common sense.
-app
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)Like presidential historian John Meacham was saying this morning on Morning Joe, every US president has begun his term with a message of unity for this country. Except for this one which has started divisive and it's just getting worse. What does this say to our allies - let alone those who oppose us??
llmart
(15,540 posts)Starting with his bizarre inauguration speech - "The carnage ends now." WTF? Not only was that weird and extremely unpresidential, he and the GOP have created more "carnage" than ever.
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)And since assuming office, he's just stepped it up, attacking even more segments of our extremely varied population, and has branched out to bashing other countries - including some of our oldest allies! What American president does that??!
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)we are much better than this. I hate republicans.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Orrex
(63,215 posts)betsuni
(25,537 posts)She was first off the airplane to shake hands with whoever was there, Pence still lumbering down the stairs. I think his wife has the brains. Too bad she can't do his speeches for him. He's better at putting on his Serious Face and standing around thinking about nothing.
George II
(67,782 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)..to feel they are supposed to defend and "fight for" only Repugs. They are not fighting for the country or the Constitution, but rather only one sort of AmericanRepugs.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)Toorich
(391 posts)but I'm wondering, when the hell are we gonna run out of old white guys?
We can't endure many more of us in charge of this Country.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)sadly, it was not to be
packman
(16,296 posts)The Republicans have always been drawing lines Balkanization Americans. Anti-immigrants, against women, culture wars, ethnic groups,economic classes, religion, race dividers - you name it and a Republican will take a stand against it if they can squeeze a vote out of it.
When they start to peddle this stuff to the military, it takes on a whole different shade of ugliness and potent.
dlk
(11,569 posts)They are zealots with a toxic agenda.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)oasis
(49,389 posts)By 2020, it's likely to end in a photo finish.
Cha
(297,295 posts)aghast if he had acted like a decent person.
diva77
(7,643 posts)relations, domestic relations, political science. Definitely as abhorrent as his commander in chief.