An ENTHUSIASTIC Mike Pence (R-IN) simply CANNOT wait to get Teabagged by Bachmann's new caucus!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Pence To Join Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus

Brian Beutler | July 19, 2010, 4:05PM



http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/pence-to-join-bachmanns-tea-party-caucus.php

Michele Bachmann's freshly minted Tea Party Caucus has its first member of GOP leadership: Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence.

At a press availability this afternoon, Pence was enthusiastic. "You betcha," Pence said when asked if he'd join.

"I come out of a background -- I was chairman of the Republican Study Committee, I was chairman of...the House Conservative Caucus," he added. My hope is that this Tea Party caucus...will be an avenue for bringing some of the energy and the enthusiasm and the focus that I've seen, from the National March on Washington where I spoke on 9/12, to traveling around Indiana and all around the country, deeper into the well of Congress.

Pence has been solicitous of the Tea Party movement in the past -- the 9/12 Tea Party in DC was promoted heavily by conservative groups like FreedomWorks and right wing radio and TV host Glenn Beck. But his enthusiasm for joining the new caucus is a reminder that GOP leaders continue to flirt with the far right flank of their base.

[spanone]

1. dear mr pence please hug each & every teabagger as you welcome them to the g.o.p.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Classic GOP Evasive answers when quizzed...the man is a fraud...typ GOP

[David__77]

3. "Republican Study Committee" = "Tea" Caucus

I'm sure there will be difference, with the latter being a subsumed part of the former.