The panel was unanimous this morning in condemning Pence's unprecedented mixing of domestic politics with a visit to the troops in Jerusalem. Essentially using our troops as props. Andrea Mitchell, who's been covering these trips for over forty years, said she'd never seen anything like it before. Their chyron said it all: Pence Blasts Democrats For Playing Politics, While Playing Politics SCARBOROUGH: “The fact that vice president of United States would launch a partisan attack against another party in front of troops overseas is unspeakably bad and is corrosive.