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(Originally posted at Prosper Group Think, but reprinted here with permission)The GOP has unveiled its convention agenda and US Rep Mike Pence is scheduled to speak on Wednesday, traditionally VP day.

Now, this may mean nothing- but VP speculation is by definition completely baseless. Here’s why Pence would be a good choice:

1. Mike Pence would absolutely destroy Joe Biden in a debate. I mean, it wouldn’t even be close.
2. Like John McCain, Pence cannot be painted as just another Bush lackey. He is known for opposing some of Bush’s worst mistakes- including the failed Medicaid Prescription Drug debacle. He’s also known for opposing the massive spending increases of the Bush Administration.
3. The recent surge in the polls for McCain has come, in part, because of a slow return of Republicans back into the fold. Adding Pence to the ticket may speed that return of Conservatives and also blunt the potential negative impact of Bob Barr. (Look, he’s polled as high as 7% in some states)

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I received an email from someone who resides within Indiana’s 7th Congressional District. We all know “The Seed” - Andre Carson - allegedly represents the 7th District.

This person saw Mike Pence’s clip posted here on Hoosier Access and picked up the phone and did it. Here’s what transpired:

“I saw the GREAT Mike Pence interview on Hoosier Access where he asks us to call our member of congress and ask them to return to DC and work all the members together to solve our problems.  I called the number Pence gave, 202-224-3121 on Saturday, August 9 around 345 pm, asked for Andre Carson’s office and the Capitol operator put me through.  It rang, and rang, and rang.  It ended up ringing back to the Capitol operator who I asked to put me through and she said, ‘It rang back to the operator, the[y] must not have voice mail.  Could you call back Monday?”

Do you expect anything else?”

Out of Andre Carson, no.

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Thanks to Erick Erickson, founder of Red State, for taking this video.

House Republicans have been going strong all week long continuing to poor on the pressure to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring back congress and allow an up or down vote on drilling.

Today, Hoosier Congressmen, Mike Pence and Dan Burton, are front and center in the call to allow a vote. Congressman Burton was on the floor a few moments ago and had this to say:

“We have probably 50 Democrats who will vote with the Republicans to pass energy legislation. Nancy Pelosi is the only person who won’t allow it to come to a vote. That’s just wrong.” “We could stop $700 billion from going over seas to hostile nations and tin horn dictators and we could add 100,000 energy jobs if we pass an energy bill and gain our energy independence.”

While Congressman Pence summed up the effect a single call from a congressional Democrat to Pelosi could have on the debate:

“One call from a House Democrat member to Pelosi would be worth 1,000 calls from citizens.”

(H/T - House Republican Policy Committee and Robert Bluey’s twitter feed)

As the Olympics start today, Congressman Pence’s statement regarding forced abortions and other human rights violations in China should give us a stark reminder of what really is going on there even when the games are taking place.

PENCE CALLS FOR END TO CHINA’S FORCED ABORTION POLICY
“China is a Police State”

WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Congressman Mike Pence gave the following speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today (Thursday, July, 30th), speaking out against Beijing, China as the site for the 2008 Olympic Games and citing China’s official policy of forced abortion as going against the very ideals of the Games:

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and thank him for his strong moral leadership on this issue. I want to commend the Ranking Member and the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee for having the moral courage to bring this resolution to the House before Congress adjourns.

“It is important that we speak truth to power. And with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing about to begin, it is important that the people of the United States be heard on our ideals as athletes from around the world and global media descend on China.

“It is important that we say as the late Tom Lantos, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a hearing last year, a few months before his death: ‘China is a police state.’

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This presser was just release by the Puckett for Congress campaign.

Puckett States that He Supports an End to the August Recess Until Energy Reform Legislation is Passed

South Bend, IN-Second district Congressional candidate Luke Puckett issued the below statement today.

“Since Friday afternoon a cadre of Congressmen has gone to the floor of the United States House of Representatives to demand that Congress come back from its August recess to have a debate and vote on legislation that would lower the price of gas. Led by individuals such as Rep. Mike Pence, these members are refusing to take a vacation when they know that Congress has not done its job in passing a comprehensive energy reform bill.

“Americans cannot take a vacation from the high gas prices and Congress shouldn’t be taking a vacation until it has done its part to expand our nation’s access to domestic energy supplies. Joe Donnelly and the other members of Congress should not go on recess until they have earned the right to do so.

“I fully support the actions of those members of Congress who are calling for this Congress to be more responsible and I pledge that when I am elected I will fight for meaningful energy reform that will allow us to access our own oil. It is time for us to stop relying on foreign oil for 66% of petroleum needs.”

Puckett also noted that on Monday, August 11, 2008 he will publicly call on President Bush to call Congress back from its vacation for the specific purpose of debating and voting on a comprehensive energy policy bill.

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Mike Pence (R-IN)

“We just want Speaker Pelosi to call members of Congress back from their five week vacation for this vote. If you think you are not being heard, I want you to know you are. I am holding a 1,500 page stack of emails you sent me yesterday. Keep emailing your congressmen.”

Just gotta say, Mike Pence has been everywhere during this GOP energy revolt.  And he’s got a great speech in the middle of this video from last Friday.

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(H/T - the Heritage Foundation Twitter feed)

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(H/T - Hoosier Political Report)

Just saw this on Twitter:

From House Republican Leader John Boehner:

House Republicans to Resume Floor Protest on American Energy Monday

Washington, Aug 3 - House Republicans will be back on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives again Monday to continue the unprecedented protest that began last Friday, when dozens of Republicans joined hundreds of American citizens on the House floor to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to send Congress home for the rest of the summer without a vote on legislation to lower gas prices and move America toward energy independence.

In an urgent memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (“A Call to Action on American Energy”), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) hailed Friday’s action, which was led by Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Tom Price (R-GA), and others, and encouraged House Republicans to return to the Capitol beginning Monday morning to help keep the historic effort going.

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Anyone care to explain to me why Nancy Pelosi and her cadre of Democrat misfits (who we, unfortunately have to refer to as the majority in the House) would leave Congress for a paid five week vacation without doing anything regarding the energy crisis? But wait! Nancy and misfits may have left, the Republicans have stayed behind even though Nancy turned out the lights.

Jeff Emanuel reports from Red State:

Hoping that the nation’s energy problem will go away if they just go home and ignore it for a few weeks, the Democrats have voted to adjourn early, turned off the lights in the lower chamber, and are trying to lock the doors to make sure no business can be done until September.

The fly in the ointment? Fifteen or so House Republicans, led by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), refused to leave the floor, where — after the Democrats turned off the lights and the microphones — they continuied talking gas prices and energy solutions, which the House was scheduled to do this afternoon already before Pelosi, et al declared an early adjournment..

Pelosi is currently trying to have the press gallery cleared and the doors locked, but Rep. Bunt, Shadegg, and Hoekstra have been taking turns remaining with media in the gallery in order to keep it open.

At one point, Shadegg “figured out how to get the lights and microphones back on,” a House insider tells me — but they have since been shut off once again.

It seems as if Republicans are the only ones taking this issue seriously and Hoosiers have been up front and center at working towards solutions.  Congressmen Buyer and Burton have legislation working towards drilling and other methods of energy independence and relief, Congressman Pence is urging a special session to deal with the mess Democrats have left behind to ignore while on a taxpayer funded vacation and Republican candidates for Congress Luke Puckett, Mike Sodrel and Greg Goode have actually gone to ANWR to see for themselves the truth behind domestic drilling.   What are the Democrats doing?

Taking a vacation.

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Mike Pence came to the floor of the House this morning to deliver this one minute speech calling for a special session of congress to deal the energy crisis.

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Read the text of Congressman Pence’s one minute speech on a special session.