Subject: Re: To Be clear
Lambo: And we owe Mike Pence a lot.

Um.

Mike Pence tried like hell to find someone who would tell him it was okay to reject the electoral certificates and throw the election to the House. But there were still a few White House lawyers and a couple of republicans who understood the legal jeopardy and who still had some personal ethics.

Pence lawyer Greg Jacob told Pence if he implemented Eastman’s proposal, he would likely lose in court. In a best-case scenario in which the courts refused to get involved, Pence would likely find himself in an isolated standoff against both houses of Congress, as well as most or all of the applicable State legislatures, with no neutral arbiter available to break the impasse.

Pence then ran to others seeking approval until, finally, of all people, he found fellow Indianan, former vice president Dan Quayle, and begged for his okay.

Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.

“‘Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away,’” Quayle told him.

Pence pressed again.

“‘You don’t know the position I’m in,’” he said.

“‘I do know the position you’re in,’ Quayle responded. ‘I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That’s all you do. You have no power.’”

So don't be so quick to throw rose petals on the path Pence reluctantly agreed to travel.

If you want to give him props, do so for his refusal to leave the Capitol during the insurrection because he might never have returned (which seemed like the Trump plan all along) and the insurrection would have succeeded in causing massive chaos (certainly what Trump was trying to achieve).


https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14...