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Allen West Says He'd Consider Raising Taxes: What's Going On? (Video) (Updated)

By Rich Abdill Wed., May 23 2012 at 12:49 PM
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Update, 1:17 p.m.: Added comment from Patrick Murphy, his Democratic opponent in the District 18 race.

Allen West's unpredictability quotient is through the roof these days. The whole "communists in Congress" thing was off-the-wall, but it was at least in line with the rest of his statements. Ditto when he lied about it on Mark Levin's show.

So when an amendment was debated in the House last week that would protect the constitutional rights of Americans accused of terrorism, the most logical thing for West to do would have been to yell and scream in favor of it -- he waves copies of the Constitution around at events. It seemed to fit perfectly.
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CAIR Officials on NDAA, Indefinite Detention, and Allen West Calling Them an "Un-Indicted Co-Conspirator"

By Rich Abdill Tue., May 22 2012 at 10:01 AM
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Point of clarification for West: "Un-indicted co-conspirator" means you aren't a co-conspirator.
Believe it or not, the Council on American-Islamic Relations might actually have something in common with tea party members. It's about last year's National Defense Authorization Act, which a federal judge ruled last week is vague enough to potentially allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens.

Tea partiers (and libertarians of other stripes) waving around copies of the Constitution say it's a gross abuse of government power to allow the military to pluck people out of their American homes and call them enemy combatants. CAIR agrees.

Congressman Allen West does not.
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Allen West Argues Against Amendment to Ban Indefinite Detention of People Arrested on American Soil (Updated)

By Rich Abdill Fri., May 18 2012 at 10:06 AM
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Allen West with a copy of the Constitution, which he says should not apply to anyone arrested on American soil accused of terrorism. UPI
Original post, 2:37 a.m.:
Legislation was considered late Thursday night to specifically ban the indefinite detention of persons detained on American soil on suspicion of terrorism.

It was an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, and would settle the most controversial facet of the last NDAA bill, signed into law on New Year's Eve, which some say allows for American citizens to be indefinitely detained by military authorities.
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Here's Video of Allen West Endorsing Indefinite Detention

By Rich Abdill Fri., May 18 2012 at 8:50 AM
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It's terrible quality, but I don't get to play with fancy video-grabbing software. I'm working on a higher-quality version, but until then, this will have to do. See my story posted late Thursday night for an explanation of what's going on, but, in summary, this is Allen West speaking out in opposition to an amendment that would ban anyone arrested in the United States from being held indefinitely by United States armed forces on terrorism charges.

He mentions Nazis, a conspiracy theory involving CAIR, and the fact that he thinks anyone accused of terrorism  -- including American citizens -- doesn't deserve constitutional rights.

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Allen West Says We Need to Focus on Economy, Sends Letter to Obama About Convicted Murderers

By Rich Abdill Thu., May 17 2012 at 12:25 PM
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Congressman Allen West wants us to focus.

"It seems like just about every week the liberals and their media allies try to change the subject while putting the best spin, however unbelievable, on the state of our economy and our nation," he wrote on Facebook yesterday evening.

So when we found a press release about a letter he sent to President Obama yesterday, it was probably about the economy, right? Jobs? Health care? Gas prices? Nah. It was about soldiers convicted of murdering Iraqis, and how rotten it was of Obama to make them serve the sentences handed down by military courts.
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Allen West Forms Joint Fundraising Committee With Fellow Commie-Baiting Ideologue Paul Broun

By Rich Abdill Tue., May 8 2012 at 9:33 AM
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The Allen West national fundraising machine got a new arm yesterday, when the South Florida congressman filed forms with the Federal Election Commission to form a joint fundraising committee with Georgia Rep. Paul Broun.

The "Broun-West Committee" was listed on a revised statement of candidacy from West yesterday and formed a fundraising alliance with one of the only members of Congress whose statements are more off-the-wall than West's. To give you a hint of what Broun's all about:

"Barack Obama is a Marxist president," he said at a Tea Party rally in March. "America is on the edge of a precipice staring down into a chasm of socialism. What are we going to do? Are we going to step off or jump off? Or will we turn around and walk up the hill of liberty?"
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Allen West Blames Obama for Afghanistan Suicide Bombing

By Rich Abdill Wed., May 2 2012 at 10:33 AM
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In a tweet this morning, Congressman Allen West linked to an article detailing a suicide bombing in Kabul, the Afghan capital that President Barack Obama had just departed from, and... took the side of the Taliban.

"Pres flew into Afghanistan at night for 7 hrs," West wrote. "As sun came up, Taliban gave its response 2 his Chamberlain like actions."
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Allen West Calls Student Loan Bill Socialist, Votes for It

By Rich Abdill Mon., Apr. 30 2012 at 9:07 AM
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You'd need only one guess to figure out which congressman criticized President Obama for using college students as "political pawns" hours before going into Congress to use college students as political pawns.

Explaining his vote on Friday's extension of student loan interest rate cuts, Congressman Allen West spoke out against the bill, criticizing the president's socialism on the issue even though Obama threatened to veto the damned thing.

Oh, and the bill, which America's favorite commie hunter called a "horrific abuse of our college students"? He voted for it, placing a wax seal on one of the most remarkable examples of illogical political double-speak to come out of the West camp since he rode his dragon of patriotism into Washington, D.C., a year and a half ago.
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Allen West Says Democrats Are Like Nine-Foot-Tall Aliens That Eat People

By Rich Abdill Thu., Apr. 26 2012 at 9:01 AM
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President Barack Hussein Obama (right).
This is not a satirical piece. It is real. No foolin', folks.

In a Facebook message posted Tuesday, Congressman Allen Bernard West continued his proud and stupid tradition of calling people names instead of proposing actual solutions. While the message is only 77 words long, not a single word of it has any actual meaning -- which seems a little disingenuous coming from a guy who says he is so very against "political propaganda."

It seems particularly specious this time: In the same message that he decries "intellectually dishonest rhetoric," Congressman Allen Bernard West says President Obama and his "liberal progressive disciples" were like giant, man-eating aliens.
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Allen West Is a Troll

By Rich Abdill Wed., Apr. 25 2012 at 12:38 PM
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Republican Congressman and Professional Commie Hunter Allen West has a column in today's edition of D.C. newspaper The Hill, and, if you haven't yet been fortunate enough to receive its rhetorical wet willie, here's a breakdown of the otter-in-a-moonbounce-level silliness of what West tries to pass off as an actual discussion of ideas.

He leads with the controversy -- the "assertion regarding so-called 'communists' in the Congressional Progressive Caucus." First of all, they're only "so-called" because West so-called them that. Then, though, we get to the interesting part: "I am pleased it has inspired so much passionate debate," he writes, "for that was precisely the point."

Welp, it's settled. West has officially declared the strategy behind his strong influence on the national political discussion, the strategy that was apparent to anyone paying attention but not actually outlined by the man himself. Allen West is a troll.
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