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Read This BEFORE You Watch Obama’s Speech Tonight

Published by Mockarena on August 31, 2010 in You Know What I Love?. 7 Comments Tags: , .

Mike Pence’s column in the Washington Times today is KICKASS.

You need to read it now, and then read it again right before Obama’s speech, and then again right afterwords. And to make it easy for you, you don’t even have to click the link. It’s right here in its entirety:

As the combat mission in Iraq draws to a close for the United States and the president prepares to address the nation tonight, the Obama administration is attempting to rewrite history by taking singular credit for our accomplishments in Iraq. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. recently claimed it was President Obama who laid out the plan for a responsible end of the war in Iraq. But that’s not the whole story.

As we mark this milestone, let us remember the real history of Operation Iraqi Freedom and give credit where credit is due – to the American service members, their families and a commander in chief who would not accept defeat in the face of withering criticism at home and abroad.

Seeing U.S. combat forces leaving with success is chiefly the result of the professionalism and sacrifices of our military in executing the surge and the Status of Forces Agreement implemented before Mr. Obama set foot in the Oval Office.

First, our brave men and women in uniform deserve our nation’s deepest gratitude. With great valor, they manned the front lines of the war on terror and achieved a stable and successful conclusion to our combat operations in Iraq. We commemorate the more than 4,000 American troops who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom. Their names will forever be enshrined on the hearts of the people of two grateful nations. For their families, the war in Iraq will never end, and we pray that God comforts them with the knowledge that the sacrifice they endured was not in vain.

We also commend the many more who suffered life-altering injuries in the course of their courageous service. All of the men and women who served under the American flag in Operation Iraqi Freedom have made us safer, and they have made us proud.
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HA!

Published by Mockarena on June 28, 2010 in You Know What I Love?. 7 Comments Tags: , .

Ooooooh, BURN.

You go, GOP. You’re getting so much better at the ad stuff.

Mike Pence On VAT And Greece

Published by Mockarena on May 12, 2010 in You Know What I Love?. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

You can’t explain it any more clearly than Rep. Pence does in this interview with Greta. Creating a value added tax in the US is wrong. Bailing out Greece and the EU is wrong. I love when he says, “We’re not looking to the EU to bail out New Jersey or California. The EU shouldn’t be looking to us to provide the loan guarantees to bail out Greece.”

That’s damn right, Congressman Pence.

Pence Packs A Punch In His Positively Powerful Pep Talk

Published by Mockarena on April 10, 2010 in You Know What I Love?. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

This is the same speech Mike Pence gave at the GOP dinner the other night, and if you recall I told you it was awesome, and he gave it again at the SRLC in New Orleans today, and it’s on video, and so now you can all see how great it was. It’s long, but worth it. Save it for when you have a spare 1/2 hour.

LOVE.

State Dinner!!

Published by Mockarena on April 9, 2010 in Chicks For Mitch and You Know What I Love?. 17 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Daisy and I got to go to the GOP State Dinner last night,  because Big E is so nice to us and includes us in so many GOP reindeer games.  We were excited to go, not just because Mike Pence was giving the keynote, but because it was the first opportunity for each of us to wear our fancy Louboutins.  TOGETHER, no less.

When we got there, there was a cute little chick sort of directing everyone to where they needed to go, and we were informed that the “main” reception along with the registration/check-in area was upstairs, and that the VIP reception was downstairs.  We went upstairs to check in, and were given name tags which indicated we were seated at Table #1, and VIP passes, which totally made us giggle,  because that meant that Big E registered us as VIP’s, which is RIDICULOUS.  We proceeded to ask the cute check-in girls if there were tiaras waiting for us behind the desk as well, but it turned out there were not.  Clearly, there are limits to our VIPness.

Anyway, we headed to the VIP reception area where all sorts of important people were mingling, and we went straight for the bar.  Daisy was pretty stoked to be able to drink after being pregnant for so long, and I was stoked too because I never have occasion to drink things like a gin and tonic unless I’m out somewhere fancy.

Murray Clark, the GOP State Chairman, made some quick opening remarks to introduce Mike Pence, who was there not only with his adorable wife Karen, but also with two of his brothers and their wives.  One brother in particular looks JUST LIKE HIM.  We decided we needed to get a picture taken with him, because we figured people don’t fuss over him nearly as much as they do his brother.  He was reluctant at first, but then said it’d be ok as long as his wife could be in the photo too.  It turned out his wife didn’t want to be in the photo, but TOOK the photo of us anyway, and then we introduced ourselves and she said, “YOU’RE the CHICKS??!? OMG!” and proceeded to take more pictures of us and we had tons of fun talking to her.  She was so nice.  And after that we giggled a bunch over the fact that Mike Pence’s sister-in-law knew who we were.

The Chicks with Mike and Karen Pence

Someone started ringing a cowbell, which apparently is the Marriott’s way of telling VIP’ers that it’s time to move to the dinner party room.   So we all herded into the main dinner area, and sat down.  We were seated next to one of the hotties who was in our Hunks On The Right calendar, Jamal Smith, and his totally foxy wife.

All of us snickered over the fact that there was a perfectly adorable chick who was assigned to sing the National Anthem before dinner, but she had to bring the lyrics with her,  and she STILL messed up a line or two.  Yikes.  I mean, I understand nerves, but wow.  That’s a song you kind of want to have down pat before you sing it at a GOP dinner.  I’m just saying.

Anyway, we chatted it up for awhile with Dee Dee Benkie, GOP National Committeewoman, who is hilarious and a total blast and who we are going to be working closely with on a new project (details forthcoming).  We had a quick chat with Our Man Mitch, who gave a terrific introduction to Mike Pence right before Pence’s keynote.  Mitch talked a lot about the whole “change you can believe in” mantra that Obama used during his campaign, and how the GOP is the party who is about “change that believes in YOU.”  I loved that – it’s the perfect way to capture the fact that it’s Republicans who believe in the capability of people to be productive and able to make their own decisions, versus Democrats who seem to think that people are only surviving because government provides for them.

Pence’s address was awesome, because he’s basically one of the most powerful speakers in politics today.  You can’t listen to him speak and NOT be inspired or feel huge optimism.

As always, we had a MOST excellent evening.  A few more photos after the jump!

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Mike Pence Is Frustrated

Published by Mockarena on March 18, 2010 in You Know What I Love?. 7 Comments Tags: , .

Let’s face it – he’s totally hot when he’s frustrated. :) And you can’t help but be energized by his passion about this whole thing.

Let Your Voice Be Heard

Published by Mockarena on March 15, 2010 in You Know What I Love?. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Mike Pence. Is. Awesome.

Mike Muses About Massa And Moratoriums

Published by Mockarena on March 11, 2010 in News. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

House Republicans have called for a moratorium on earmarks. I think that’s awesome. Democrats, however, will feel free to continue to porkify and earmark everything.

This is a good move, as it’ll demonstrate that the GOP has recognized the error of its big spending ways from the Bush years. And it’ll leave the Democrats with a lot more ‘splainin’ to do when they keep crafting shady deals like the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase and whatever else they’ve been working on this week in an effort to buy votes for Obamacare.

Mike Pence And Jeb Hensarling Make Sense; Therefore, They Will Not Be Acknowledged By This Administration

Published by Mockarena on March 4, 2010 in You Know What I Love?. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

BEHOLD: Two bright stars of Congress talk about their Spending Limit Amendment. You can read their WSJ Op-Ed about it right here. In a nutshell, the amendment would Actually Limit spending to one-fifth of our total economy, and the only way to get around that would be with a declaration of war or 2/3 congressional vote. The amendment puts a “legal constraint on lawmakers present and future.”

Who doesn’t want that? What rational-thinking American doesn’t think it’s high time for the federal government to chill out on the spendathon they’ve been having for the past year?

It makes too much sense. And therefore, I suspect it’ll be largely ignored. But ya gotta love Pence and Hensarling for trying. It’s good to hear voices of reason from The Hill.

Mike Pence Is Awesome

Published by Mockarena on November 2, 2009 in You Know What I Love?. 9 Comments Tags: , .

LOVE.

It’s Official. Gay People Are More Valuable Than Straight People.

Published by Mockarena on October 30, 2009 in Really? and You Know What I Hate?. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

So remember that video I showed you a few weeks back of Mike Pence criticizing the hate crime legislation that was attached to a defense spending bill? Well, here’s a great write-up about what a huge pile of crap that is, and how inappropriate it was for Democrats to include it in a bill meant for our military.

Obama signed the bill this past Wednesday, you guys. It’s a done deal. Gay and transgendered people are now a specially protected class, which allows the Justice Dept to prosecute any violence against them based on their gayness or transgenderedness. If you’re straight and viciously attacked? Same old same old. But if you’re gay or transgendered, then you’re apparently extra important and warrant extra super double secret prosecution of your attacker.
 
The Family Research Council President, Tony Perkins summarized it well (bolding is mine): “Today, President Obama signed into law the so-called ‘hate crimes’ bill which violates the principle of equal justice under the law and threatens to infringe on the free speech rights of the American people. All violent crimes are hate crimes, and every victim is equally important. President Obama’s decision today fails to recognize that all of our citizens deserve equal justice under the law.” 

The law itself is incredibly offensive, but made even MORE offensive by the fact that it was slipped into a defense authorization bill.  Pence said, “Today, the president of the United States put his liberal social priorities ahead of an unambiguous affirmation of our men and women in uniform. Every day, our armed forces stand in defense of freedom and our cherished way of life. It is deeply offensive to their service and to millions of Americans to pile so-called ‘hate crimes’ legislation onto a bill that authorizes critical resources for our troops. Hate crimes legislation is antithetical to the First Amendment, unnecessary and will have a chilling effect on religious freedom.” 

Perkins described the bill as a slap in the face to servicepeople, because it forced Congress to choose between EITHER expanding hate crime legislation OR making our military go without needed supplies. And Democrats take no issue with that. They don’t see how absolutely despicable that idea is. It’s outrageous.
 
Ironically, the statement from the Human Rights Campaign president, Joe Solmonese, was as follows: “Today’s signing of the first major piece of civil rights legislation to protect LGBT Americans represents a historic milestone in the inevitable march towards equality.” Um, no, Joe, it doesn’t. It represents LGBT Americans being provided with special treatment. Special treatment does not equal “equality.”
 
I guess there’s truth to that whole, “Everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others” concept.

Indiana’s Own Mike Pence Reacts To The Fox News War

Published by Mockarena on October 22, 2009 in You Know What I Love?. 7 Comments Tags: .

Awww yeah!

The only thing missing from this is a Bush impression.

LOVE.

Best. Bush Impression. Ever.

Published by Daisy on October 13, 2009 in General Political Mockery. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Remember that Gala that Mock and I went to back in July? Well, while the dinner was awesome and the speakers were more than awesome, I had some first trimester blahs going on and missed Mike Pence’s address to the crowd. Of course, he did his George Bush impression, and from what Mock said – it was completely dead-on. Since then, we’ve tried to find video of it – we’ve even asked him to do it in person in the times we’ve met with him since – but with no success.

Much to my delight, I found this video today, and I felt compelled to share. I still think he could be one of the front-runners in 2012. And, if not, there’s always a fall-back career much like Rich Little’s…

Mike Pence Takes A Stand

Published by Mockarena on October 8, 2009 in Really?. 8 Comments Tags: , , .

BEHOLD: Mike Pence explaining his position on voting against a defense bill, because it had completely unrelated gay hate crime legislation attached to it.

According to this, the House voted today to make it a FEDERAL crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation.

If you assault people for some other reason, apparently that’s not as big of a deal. But if you assault a gay person? Well, it’s a federal case now.

I just don’t get that. Assault is assault. If I’m assaulted, why am I any less important than my gay friend who gets assaulted?

And to attach this nonsense to a DEFENSE SPENDING BILL? Are you freaking kidding me?

Thankfully, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence spoke out about it. And not that it’s relevant, but he looked hot doing it.

I’m just saying.

Mock ‘N Daisy Mingle With Mike And Murray

Published by Mockarena on August 12, 2009 in General Political Mockery. 10 Comments Tags: , .

So, this afternoon, Daisy and I took some time off of work to do some really cool political stuff.  First, thanks to some cool people we know, we got invited to a blogger Q&A with Congressman Mike Pence, held at the Indy GOP headquarters.   There were just a handful of us blogger-type people there, and even though we weren’t permitted to do any audio/visual stuff during the discussion, we did manage to get a photo:

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As you can see, we all decided to go with a black and white clothing theme for the photo. 

Even though the Q&A session was just a short 1/2 hour, we did get a couple of questions in, and took some notes as Pence answered.   Much of the discussion centered around healthcare, not surprisingly.  Pence said that inexplicably, Obama continues to insist that we can all keep our current insurance if we’re happy with it – despite the fact that people with Actual Brains understand that employers are going to DROP their employees’ health benefits in droves if there is a “public option.”  (The “Actual Brains” thing is my wording, not his.)

Pence said that there will be a Republican healthcare reform bill presented in the House in September, and that people should visit www.gop.gov to get the most up to date information on their planned legislation.

I asked him about his Broadcast Freedom Amendment, which sought to prevent the Fairness Doctrine from ever rearing its ugly head again, and he informed us that his efforts have been blocked FIVE TIMES; in other words, the majority leaders will not even allow the bill to be VOTED on, despite the fact that there is lots of bi-partisan support for it.   That’s a scary thing, you guys.  It’s blatant censorship, and nothing more. 

After the session, we grabbed him for the photo, and we hoped that we could catch him on video doing his George Bush impression, but he got all bashful and shy about it and finally said that he’d do it for us “next time” which was cool because that implies that there will be a next time.  

After our visit with the Congressman, we got a quick tour of the headquarters, and then hung out with a couple of the Hoosier Access boys for a little while, who know all the ins and outs of local and state politics and tried to school us for a bit.  And then?  It was PARTAY TIME with Murray Clark, the Indiana State GOP Chairman.

You guys, Murray is PRECIOUS.  I mean, he’s just the sweetest, nicest most genuine man ever.  He’s been very supportive of our happy little site, and actually accepted our invitation to have after work cocktails.  So we met at a nice little restaurant close to the headquarters, and you know what he spent a better part of an hour doing?  Asking us to tell him all about ourselves.  And when I say “all” I mean he wanted to literally know everything we had done since highschool.   He asked about our educations, our marriages, our kids, our jobs, how we met our husbands, how we met each other…just everything.  It was just genuine, I-want-to-get-to-know-you-chicks, real, honest-to-goodness interest in us and how ultimately we came to be doing what we’re doing.  It was fantastic.  We chatted it up with Murray for 2 hours, talking about the GOP and what needed to happen to gain the trust of people again, and he was just so warm and positive and helpful and enthusiastic that we left feeling like we had just had drinks with someone we’d known for like 15 years.

Plus, he’s a total gentleman who picked up the tab, took us a secret back way through the mall, PAST THE SHOE DEPARTMENT NO LESS (seriously could he know us any better???), and got us to our parking garage, where he made sure we were safe and secure before he took his leave of us.  LOVE.

Before we left the restaurant, we snapped a few pics with Murray, one of which is below. 

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All in all, a good day of political hobnobbing with two great Indiana politicians!

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