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2 Years in to Mike Pence's Epic Gamble V23, N44 Thursday, July 26, 2018 2 years in to Mike Pence’s epic gamble away” office as As Pence ascends to entry into the pantheon of 45. power, his core beliefs Or, he could be morph along with his boss consigned to John Nance Garner’s By BRIAN A. HOWEY “warm bucket of INDIANAPOLIS – It was just two piss” occupied by years ago that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Hubert H. Hum- entered the Trumpian twilight zone. Some phrey, Walter of those close Mondale and Al to him saw it Gore, the vice as a deal with presidents who the devil. Oth- aspired and fell ers believed it under the weight would be his clearest path to the presidency of their bosses. that he had coveted since his Columbus, On July Indiana, childhood. What commenced in 24, 2016, in Cleve- Indianapolis, Westfield, New York and then land, we heard Cleveland in July 2016 has been Vice Presi- Pence cut through dent Pence’s odyssey, with the final chapters the myriad of of how this ends unwritten, unknowable, controversies sur- and perhaps, unfathomable. rounding Donald J. Trump. He attempted to send a beacon In the Pence worldview of ambition, he was climb- of normalcy to the GOP delegates: “Donald Trump gets ing into the shoes of Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and George H.W. Bush, turning the “heartbeat Continued on page 3 The mad king’s tariffs By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – In 1994, as a massive Republi- can election tidal wave was gathering, the motion picture “The Madness of King George” was released. The plot line went like this: In the wake of the “The president believes that the successful American Revolution, British King George III descended next bilateral meeting with into acute intermittent porphyria. Or in layman’s terms, the king President Putin should take place went crazy. The early scenes of after the Russia witch hunt is the film recount an obviously tor- mented and mentally ill king issu- over, so we’ve agreed it will be ing absurd orders as his order- after the first of the year.” lies and staff tried to follow his deranged directives. The optics - National Security Adviser were a cross between a Chinese fire drill and a Ringling Brothers John Bolton on Wednesday clown car. Any humor was ac- Page 2 companied with a winced expression. ate amount was targeted directly at Alas, I conjure these images American farmers. Trade damage from in the wake of President Trump’s such retaliation has impacted a host of tariffs, which has ushered in a wide- U.S. commodities, including field crops spread trade war that is just now like soybeans and sorghum, livestock manifesting itself, with Trump insisting products like milk and pork, and many that winning a trade war is “easy.” On fruits, nuts, and other specialty crops.” Wednesday, Trump explained, “Every Well, the “unjustified retaliato- Howey Politics Indiana time I see a weak politician asking to ry tariffs” were instigated by President stop Trade talks or the use of Tariffs to Trump. WWHowey Media, LLC 405 counter unfair Tariffs, I wonder, what Incredulously, the USDA Massachusetts Ave., Suite can they be thinking? Are we just continued, “High tariffs disrupt normal 300 Indianapolis, IN 46204 going to continue and let our farmers marketing patterns, affecting prices www.howeypolitics.com and country get ripped off?” and raising costs by forcing com- To the president’s credit, he modities to find new markets.” Yes! consistently advocated for tariffs and Gary Cohn was trying to make that Brian A. Howey, Publisher campaigned on them, capturing Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington the votes of about 70% of Hoosier Cameron Carter, Editor farmers. No one should be sur- Joel Weyrauch, Editor prised. Mary Lou Howey, Editor But he is about the only one who thinks tariffs are a good Mark Curry, Daily Wire, photo idea. Not Gary Cohn, not Steve Jack E. Howey, Editor Mnuchin, not Rex Tillerson, not Emeritus Jackie Walorski and 106 of her Republican House colleagues. The Indiana and U.S. Chambers oppose Subscriptions them, as do the Farm Bureau, the HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 corn and soybean growers, the HPI Weekly, $350 pork producers, Club for Growth HPI Mobile, $5.95 monthly President David McIntosh and the Ray Volpe, Account Manager Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. But here we are with 317.602.3620 soybean markets in China, which email: [email protected] American farmers spent years de- veloping, drying up as Brazil rushes in to take over. Soybean prices are Contact HPI tanking, while steel and aluminum [email protected] prices are soaring, hammering Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 Hoosier and American manufac- Washington: 202.256.5822 turers. The danger isn’t so much Business Office: 317.602.3620 this season due to crop insurance and very case to the president last winter futures contracts. It’s what happens if before he resigned in protest. we enter into a long trade war sans a Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue © 2018, Howey Politics “yuuuuge deal.” explained, “This is a short-term solu- Indiana. All rights reserved. So what’s the cabinet of tion to allow President Trump time Photocopying, Internet forward- Mad King Don and a supplicant Re- to work on long-term trade deals to ing, faxing or reproducing in publican Congress to do hours after benefit agriculture and the entire U.S. President Trump tweeted on Tuesday economy. The President promised any form, whole or part, is a morning that “tariffs are the great- to have the back of every American violation of federal law without est!”? Why, announce $12 billion in farmer and rancher, and he knows permission from the publisher. payouts to American farmers! the importance of keeping our rural In an incredible press release, economy strong.” the U.S. Department of Agriculture Short term, as in Nov. 6. said on Tuesday, “Of the total unjus- U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, tified retaliatory tariffs imposed on Republican of Wisconsin, explained, the United States, a disproportion- “This is becoming more and more Page 3 like a Soviet-type of economy here: Commissars decid- “would be something I wouldn’t be for.” ing who’s going to be granted waivers, commissars in the As if the mad-cap Trump ag subsidies weren’t administration figuring out how they’re going to sprinkle enough for the news cycle, the Washington Post’s lead around benefits. I’m very exasperated. This is serious.” headlines blared Wednesday: “Trump pushes 25% auto Soviet-type economy, eh? Perhaps Trump spent tariff as top advisers scramble to stop him.” part of those two hours last week in Helsinki picking Vlad They may have succeeded for a day. Trump did Putin’s Soviet-style brain on oligarch economics. seem to back off some when meeting with the E.U. Jean- The WSJ opined Wednesday: “Hours after Presi- Claude Juncker Wednesday, who announced a soybean dent Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning that ‘tariffs are deal and future natural gas from the U.S. to Europe, with the greatest!’ his Administration announced a $12 billion Trump holding off on auto tariffs. But as we know, Trump aid package for American farmers to offset the harm from changes his mind frequently and on a whim. the Trump trade wars. If you’re confused, join the White Operative phrase: “As top advisers scramble to House. The Trump Administration is trying to fix an eco- stop him.” For the record, Hoosier auto execs at Toyota nomic problem of its own making by putting the victims on and Subaru, as well as General Motors, are sounding the federal dole. Perhaps this is what White House trade warnings about these auto tariffs, which would be poised adviser Peter Navarro meant when he said the trade harm to hammer yet another key economic sector here in Indi- was merely a ‘rounding error.’” ana. Beyond Rep. Walorski’s complaint that the “current So, the mad president wants his tariffs, his staff is exclusion process for steel and aluminum tariffs is broken,” scrambling much like the orderlies of King George III more a reference to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs that are than two centuries ago. So, too, will Republicans, following hammering Hoosier manufacturers, the Indiana Republican the Ministry of Funny Walks, all the way to the ballot box delegation is on mute once again. on Nov. 6. v Republican Senate nominee Mike Braun did tell NBC News that the additional cooked up farm subsidies Howey is HPI publisher. legislative super-majorities he used to fashion a presi- Vice President Pence, from page 1 dential aspirant resume. In April 2015, he seemed to be it,” Pence said in his half-hour speech in primetime. “He’s a political dead man walking. He was so dinged by RFRA a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. He doesn’t that he didn’t even enter the presidential derby. But the tiptoe around a thousand new rules of political correct- veepstakes? Therein was an opportunity. ness. He’s his own man, distinctly American, and where In the Nov. 10, 2016, edition of Howey Politics else would he find a following in the land of the free and Indiana, our analysis: When dozens of prominent Repub- home of the brave? licans turned their “If you want a backs on Trump, president who will establish Pence did what Dan law and order, give them Quayle did in the resources, a president summer of 1988. who can cut taxes and He conceived, then squeeze every nickel out orchestrated a lifeline of the bureaucracy, create strategy to get on the strong borders who will ticket.
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