Pence calls Obama's speech 'disappointing'

Vice President Pence criticized Obama's return to the left's desperate campaign trail telling "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that Obama, in his attempt to paper over a crappy legacy with major tax increases and an enormous hike in the national debt was "very disappointing."

"It was very disappointing to see President Obama break with the tradition of former presidents, and become so political, and roll out the same tired arguments that he and liberals have made over the last eight years," Pence told Wallace.

"We inherited an economy that was growing a little bit more than one percent," he continued. "In the last quarter, our economy is growing at 4.2 percent. Four million new jobs, unemployment at a 50-year low. And to have President Obama come out and tout his policies that resulted in less than 2 percent growth -- which saw tax increases, ObamaCare regulation, and a doubling of the national debt -- I think was -- it was very disappointing."

Pence also spoke about what he called the "un-American" anonymous author of a New York Times Op-Ed last week, and swore he would take a lie-detector test to prove he did not write it.

Personally, I believe him.

"I would agree to take it in a heartbeat and would submit to any review the administration wanted to do," Pence asserted. As for whether other officials should be forced to take a polygraph, Pence was reluctant, saying that it is up to the president to decide the issue.

The cowardly Op-Ed, purportedly written by a "senior administration official," depicts a broken White House and claims that top-level bureaucrats are actively working to undermine parts of President Trump's agenda.

That isn't treason, but it sure as hell sounds like sedition. The president is an elected official and to undermine him is seditious and carries a very stiff legal penalty.

"If they are that senior administration official -- that they're violating an oath, not to the president, but to the Constitution," Pence said.

According to the vice president,  President Trump was also concerned about the national security implications of the situation. "Look, it's un-American. And I think that's why you've seen Republicans and Democrats condemn this."

But mostly Republicans, because if someone tried to assassinate President Trump, Democrats would scramble to find reasons to justify such a heinous act.

Pence continued: "To have someone who literally celebrates coming in every day to frustrate the agenda that the president and I were elected to advance -- it really is an assault on our democracy. And it should be universally condemned."

And prosecuted fully.

The Op-Ed conspicuously used the term "lodestar," a word which Pence has been known to use in speeches.

Wallace asked him if he believed the use of that word appeared to be an attempt to frame him, Pence replied, "I wouldn't know," but said the entire situation was an attempt to "distract attention from this booming economy and from the president's record of success."

Pence encapsulated his thinking about how the administration is portrayed by the media and the reality of what he sees in working as vice president.

"Sometimes I watch a little bit of TV in the morning, and then I go to the White House, and I feel like I’m in a parallel universe. I walk into a White House where there’s a President behind the desk; he’s in command. He's constantly driving forward on delivering on the promises that we made for the American people. And then I go home at night and I see cable TV talking about all of this stuff about disarray in the White House, and it's just not my experience. 

"You look at the passage of historic tax cuts for businesses and individuals, and the way that jobs are coming back, and investment is coming back. The re-negotiation of trade deals, our allies contributing more to our common defense. All of that is happening because we have a president of almost boundless energy who comes in every day -- regardless of what's happening in the Washington media culture -- and says, 'What are we doing today to deliver for the American people?' And I think that's why I see such enthusiasm as I travel across the country. And that's why I believe the American people are going to vote to re-elect Republican majorities in the House and Senate this fall."

If Obama understood why the country elected President Trump to the office he once held, and owned up to it, he would not be campaigning for the Democrats because that's just campaigning for the GOP.



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