Trump's accomplice follows his master's lead
by digby
Pence and Trump are becoming indistinguishable:
Vice President Mike Pence arrived at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in an eight-vehicle motorcade Saturday, prompting cries of "sacrilege" on social media.
Cars are generally banned on the island, and that century-old ban is integral to its charm.
When President Gerald Ford visited the island in 1975 — the only sitting president to make such a visit — he and first lady Betty Ford traveled by horse-drawn carriage.
Pence, who spoke at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, is the first sitting vice president to visit the island. He traveled to and from the airport with a cluster of monster SUVs shipped to the island Friday night.
It was the first-ever motorcade on Mackinac.
To some, the Pence motorcade on the bucolic island is the latest outrage of the Donald Trump presidency.
To others, it's mostly a sign of how much has changed since 1975.
This one even aroused America's foremost font of "both-sides" conventional wisdom:
Ron Fournier, a Detroit native who covered Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama during a journalism career that included stints as Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press and editor-in-chief of the National Journal, said the motorcade was "obscene."
It figures that this would be straw that broke the camel's back ...
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