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If youre wondering whether Vice President Mike Pence would be a better president than our current one,youre not the only one.

Dominique Salerno and Laura Hankin, the duo behind feminist comedy group Feminarchy, know that Pence would be a better president than Donald Trump. There would just be some, err,huge downsides. On Tuesday, the duo published a new sketch titled A Desperate Sexy Song For Mike Pence and weve never related more to anything ... ever.

The sketch is a parody music video (think of Britney Spears in the early 2000s) where Salerno and Hankin ask Pence to take over the government knowing full well that Pence would basically turn the country into a scene out ofThe Handmaids Tale.

Mike Pence, would you save us from nuclear war? the two sing in the video. Mike Pence, youd be awful for ladies and gays. Mike Pence, but you might not usher in the end of days.

The duo makes an important point in the video, singing that while Pences Christian principles contain a lot of hatred, its OK because at least his advisers wont include Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner.

Well never get a seat at your table, you wont eat with a woman whos not your wife,they sing. But at least there will still be tables, and sentient human life.

Hankin and Salerno told HuffPost that "sheer terror" is what inspired them to create the hilarious music video.

"We've been spending a lot of time lately wondering what's going to happen to our country," Hankin said. "One day, we'll read an article about how Trump needs to be impeached before he starts a nuclear war. The next, we'll read one about how impeaching Trump would be a horrible idea, because Pence would spend less time sitting in firetrucks, and more time pursuing his anti-women agenda. Basically, we're very confused and worried that our rights are going to be taken away, so what better way to sort through our feelings than by unleashing our inner Britney Spears?"

Unleashing your inner Britney is never a bad thing, ladies.

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Feminists Serenade Mike Pence With Depressingly Honest Love ... - HuffPost

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Thank you, Mr. President, Vice President Mike Pence tweeted July 15, celebrating the one-year anniversary of candidate Donald Trump naming him to the 2016 ticket. Will ex-president Trump get to say the same thing to Pence when the new president pardons him?

Despite the I love it salivated by Donald Trump Jr. at the prospect of Kremlin help with the campaign, his fathers impeachment is a long shot. Unless Democrats retake Congress in 2018, the chance that elected Republicans will admit theyve been enabling a liar and an idiotwords that polled AmericanscallTrumpare just about nil. But I give even odds to Trumps resigning for health reasons.

Hell never admit to any of the crimes that congressional committees or special counsel Robert Mueller may fillet him for, and even if he fires Mueller, no amount of incriminating evidence uncovered by investigative journalists will awaken our man-baby-in-chief to grownup skills like telling true from false, reality from delusion and news from Fox News.

But bullies like Trump are cowards at heart. However appealing he finds sliming his prosecutors like a stressedhagfish, the thought of running away to spend more time with his 9-iron might prove irresistible. Would Pence trade the Oval Office for Trumps holding his resignation hostage to a pardon?

Pence could use the same reason Gerald Fordgavefor pardoning Richard Nixon in 1974: To write the ending of a nightmarish chapter in our history. When Ford lost the 1976 presidential election, he believed it was the pardon that doomed him, and most historians agree. You can imagine Pence wondering the same thing about his own fate in 2020.

Pence, though, may not have a choice. Trump has the goods on him.

Trump knows Pence lied when he claimed to be in the dark about the footsie former national security adviser Mike Flynn was playing with the Russians, the Turks and who knows who else. Trump also knows Pence knew how deep in the tank were Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and Trump Jr. (and Ivanka? Steve Bannon? Bueller?) with Russian hackers, oligarchs and Vladimir Putin. As Trump might put it, many people aresayingthat Pence is either lying or wildly incompetent, or either a sucker and a dupe or a liar. Trump knows its all of the above, leaving Pence no alternative to paying the ransom of a pardon.

I have to believe that Pences political rise,like Sarah Palins, has been powered at least in part by his looks. If Pence, a right-wing talk radio host for an Indiana station, had looked like Rush Limbaugh or Alex Jones, he might never have made it to Congress. In the 2016 vice presidential debate, Penceliedthrough his teeth, claiming Trump never uttered the falsehoods Tim Kaine quoted. If Pence didnt look like central castings idea of Midwestern rectitude, he would have been laughed off the stage.

In May, at the U.S. Naval Academy graduation, Pencesaidthe most important quality of leadership is humility, a point hemadeagain July 12 to high school students attending the National Student Leadership Conference at American University, where he went on, with no irony, to cite Donald Trump as a paragon of that very humility. Really. He actually said that. He invoked Trump to illustrate other leadership virtues, too: integrity (!), self-control (!!) and respect for authority (?). How did Pence get away with it? Tonsorial integrity, Id venturethe proxy for honesty that his headful of snowy white hair absurdly confers on the blatant bull that comes out of his mouth.

Pences current priority, selling Mitch McConnells health care bill to wavering senators, isnt going very well. The damage he did to his credibility by lying about Flynn, Russia andwhyTrump fired FBI director James Comey is ananvilaround his neck. His approval ratings, atplus-11as recently as March, have fallen, like Trumps, toall-time lows. No wonder he bombed at the National Governors Associations meeting on July 14. When he lied about Medicaid (he said its expansion under the Affordable Care Act hurt developmentally disabled Americans and put far too many able-bodied adults on the program), he wasnailednot by a Democrat, but by the Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich. Pence also scored zero points with three other Republican governors whose states expanded Medicaid: Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Doug Ducey of Arizona and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas. When Republican senators from those states vote on McConnells bill, theyll take their lead from their governors, not from Pence.

If youre dreaming of an abbreviated Trump administration, you need to reconcile yourself not only to a Pence presidency, but also to a Pence pardon. That would make Trump even more insufferable, but as many people are saying, at least Pence would be a normal Republican. You know, the garde-variety Republican whowantsto kill Planned Parenthood and end gay marriage, who calls global warming a myth and longs for the day that Roe v. Wade is sent to the ash heap of history.

We have to keep reminding ourselves not to get used to Trump, that hes not normal. Pence may be normal, but so is poison ivy.

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Will Mike Pence Pardon Donald Trump? - AlterNet

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and several House Democrats asked Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday to remove Kris W. Kobach as vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and to cancel the requests made last month for states to turn over voter information.

The pressure comes after several lawsuits have been filed against the commission, alleging it violated federal law after asking states to turn over names, partial Social Security numbers, birthdays, political party affiliations, military status and other public information. The commission has stopped gathering the data until a judge resolves the matter.

In an 11-page letter sent to Mr. Pence, the lawmakers alleged Mr. Kobach may have violated the Hatch Act by touting his position on the commission in furtherance of his 2018 gubernatorial campaign. The Hatch Act forbids executive branch employees from using their positions to influence an election.

Mr. Kobachs partisan activity and his recent sanctions for dishonesty before a court of law cast a shadow over the Commission and undermine its integrity, the lawmakers wrote. Mr. Kobach should step down as Vice-Chair and be replaced with an individual who can be trusted to ensure that the Commission operates in a bipartisan manner to protect voter information and to protect the right of Americans to vote.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Common Cause and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law all have lawsuits pending against the commission, hoping to prevent it from collecting the information.

The lawmakers asked Mr. Pence to address questions and speculation about the commission at its next meeting on July 19.

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Pence pressured by CBC, Dems to remove Kris Kobach from election integrity commission - Washington Times

An act in three parts, featuring Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), played out on Twitter over the last few days.

VP Pence went first, posting a video of himself on Friday speaking about the (now dead) Senate health-care bill.

Let me be clear: The Senate health-care bill strengthens and secures Medicaid for the neediest in our society. #BetterCare pic.twitter.com/rThIZtB9zi

The next day, Sen. Murphy quote-tweeted Pence's video and said that there was a "real evil in the epidemic rate of lying" that is currently happening in Washington.

I'm going to say it - there is real evil in the epidemic rate of lying that is going on right now. This is not normal. https://t.co/ifkV1GWAUH

To which Pence replied on Monday that the current Obamacare law contained quite a bit of lies and half-truths as well--namely, the 2013 PolitiFact Lie of the Year of "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." For good measure, Pence also included the Pinocchio emoji of a face with a growing nose.

You mean like, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."? ?? https://t.co/GUpFKhe7pz

Daaaaaaaaang.

While not quite admitting defeat, Murphy then thanked Pence for the reply, and claimed that pointing out that others lied too "isn't a defense." (Although one could say it's at least progress now that Democrats are admitting that people lied during the leadup to the passage of Obamacare.)

Thanks for the reply, but claiming someone else lied too isn't a defense. The bill does not "secure Medicaid". I'm confident you know this. https://t.co/0OqkijAaK7

Who knew VP Pence could be that intense on Twitter?

Even The New York Times Noticed the Dems' Obstructionism

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In a little more than 15 years, the United States went from launching its first satellites (Explorer 1 and Vanguard 1 in 1958) to putting men in space, then on the moon, then to landing a spacecraft safely on Mars (Viking in 1976).

Think about that for a minute: People who had gone west in covered wagons on the Oregon Trail as children were still alive when the United States launched those satellites.

People born in 1869, when the last member of Lewis and Clark expedition was still alive, were watching Americans walk on the moon.

People born in the horse-and-buggy era lived to see America land an unmanned spacecraft on Mars.

Those were heady days for our country and anxious ones, too.

Perhaps America is ready to resume its place as the world leader in space exploration. Lets hope so.

Earlier this month, Vice President Mike Pence visited NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida and in doing so highlighted the next step the Orion spacecraft and its launch counterpart, the SLS, or Space Launch System, which will be the worlds most powerful rocket. This combination has the potential to take astronauts back to the moon, then to Mars and perhaps to asteroids.

Let us do what our nation has always done since its very founding and beyond: Weve pushed the boundaries on frontiers, not just of territory, but of knowledge. Weve blazed new trails, and weve astonished the world as weve boldly grasped our future without fear, Pence said. We will put American boots on the face of Mars.

It had echoes of the promises and potential of the dawning of the Space Age.

The first flight of the integrated Orion/Space Launch System is scheduled for 2019, which would be a fitting way to recognize the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

Explorer 1 burned up on re-entry a few years after launch, but Vanguard is still up there the oldest man-made object in space. Neil Armstrongs footprints are still there, and Viking is still on the Martian surface, waiting for another generation of explorers to rediscover it, perhaps even to bring it home and put it in the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum, alongside Apollo 11, Friendship 7, Bell X-1, the Spirit of St. Louis, the Wright Flyer, and other milestones of air and space.

The late astronaut Eugene Cernan, who as part of the crew of Apollo 17 became the last man to walk on the moon, consistently challenged us to push forward in space.

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking toward the next horizon, he once said. The United States had become a spacefaring nation, but threw it away.

Its time we become a spacefaring people once again.

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Our View: Mike Pence challenges us to resume role as space-faring nation - Joplin Globe