Profile in cowardice.

Mike Pence has out-Penced himself.

The craven cuck bench as deep as fuck in the GOP. So deep that we could start a profiles in cowardice series right this minute and pick 2 members of the poltroon party each day, and it would take so long that our great grandkids would someday groan as adults because we saddled them and their own children with the tediousness of completing the task.

For the purposes of this essay, I am going to focus on the gold standard of gutlessness, the Brigadier General of bedroom eyes, the King of egregious lickspittling, the lackey of the century that is Mike Pence.

And I know what you’re thinking — ‘but Capt’n Chaps has shown us peak Penceian fecklessness, and he’s long since shed those former guy fawning ways, hasn’t he? Also — he can’t possibly be worse than we thought right?’

Wrong.

This IS Mike Pence we’re talking about here, and when it comes to being a milquetoast, he really is the milq-toastiest of them all, so nothing should surprise any of us at this point. I mean, we could find out next week that Mike obliged his Burnt-butter-bronzed boss/daddy by letting him strap a pleather saddle onto his backside so he could ride him around the West Wing like a circus pony, and no one would bat an eye, but the story which broke this week revealed a new layer of Pence’s subservience. One he clearly recognizes as one which makes him look even more reprobate than ever, because for all of his recent so-called steeliness & self-congratulatory “I did my duty to the Constitution that day” posturing, he’s never once mentioned it. Funny how he just kept forgetting this one, sticky little detail…

According to ABC News:

But, the sources said, with the pressure on Pence mounting, he concluded on Christmas Eve -- just for a moment -- that he would follow Trump's suggestion and let someone else preside over the proceedings on Jan. 6, writing in his notes that doing otherwise would be "too hurtful to my friend."

"Not feeling like I should attend electoral count," Pence wrote in his notes in late December. "Too many questions, too many doubts, too hurtful to my friend. Therefore I'm not going to participate in certification of election."

Hold on… hold the fuck on… “too hurtful to his friend.”