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Allen West, Michelle Fields and John Phillips discuss Barack & Bibi, The Carl Combover & Single Motherhood

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On today’s Next Gen TV, Allen and Michelle reflect back on their week at CPAC and find out what John was up to by his lonesome in Los Angeles. On the CPAC front, our hosts take a look at Rush Limbaugh’s open letter to the next generation, and quibble with Rushbo’s premise that they need to do something important for anyone to pay attention to them.

Plus, is it possible to make a plausible argument that fast food, plastic bags and cigarettes do more damage than single motherhood? An ad campaign targeted at single mothers in New York City sparks a fierce debate. Find out where the Next Gen team stands on it.

And Paul Ryan and Speaker Boehner say there’s a looming debt crisis. But were you aware that there’s a serious barbershop deficit in the Senate? Well there is. To learn about these topics, and more, tune in.

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Barack & Bibi, The Carl Combover & Single Motherhood

Allen West “Senate legislation doesn’t promote economic growth, debt/deficit reduction – I can’t support it”

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by Allen West on Tuesday, January 1, 2013

I wish everyone a very Happy New Year!

As I did my 7-mile run along the DC mall this morning I pondered where we are fiscally as a nation. We continue to have unserious band-aid type solutions to a very serious problem. I reviewed the Senate-passed legislation, and as it stands I will not support it if brought to the House floor.

Raising taxes in order to increase federal government spending is illogical, and disrespectful to all hard-working American families. Sure, I support the “doc fix” and AMT solution, but again the DC way is to make a pot of gumbo and believe that it will taste good to enough people. The American people deserve better.

No one’s taxes need increase and this Senate legislation does not promote economic growth, debt/deficit reduction, or spending discipline, which should be our main goals. The House has sent countless pieces of legislation, good policy, to the Senate which sits idly on Harry Reid’s desk. For the Democrat-led Senate to disregard its most basic Constitutional responsibility and then jam a last-hour cobbled-together 100 pages of nonsense to the House of Representatives is offensive. The future of our children and the promise to our next generation suffers due to extreme incompetence. The liberal progressive rhetoric sounds sweet to the ear but we continue to witness failure. The day is coming when principled pragmatic Constitutional Conservatives will be sought after to restore the American Republic, and we will answer the call.

Congratulations from Allen West to Rep Tim Scott

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Taken from Allen West’s Facebook Status

Congratulations to my colleague, Tim Scott, on his appointment to the Senate. It’s been about 4 decades since there’s been a black GOP member of that chamber – and seems like about that long since it has passed a budget…

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Congressman Allen West Needs To Know Where You Stand

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Fellow Conservative,

Our country is now in a very dangerous and precarious place. Our very Constitution is being slowly unraveled before our eyes and Barack Obama and the liberals in Congress have plans to fundamentally transform America into something you and I won’t recognize.

Barack Obama’s already brought us nationalized health care and started paving the way toward open borders. His tax policies have discouraged job creators from hiring and if we do nothing – January 1st will bring $494 billion in tax increases.

This election will truly be the most consequential in our lifetime and that’s why I need to know where you stand. Will you take my Summer Conservative Issues Survey?


The only solution to preserve America is to change the balance of power in Washington DC with principled, conservative leaders. We must reinforce our hold on the House of Representatives, we must take back the Senate, and above all, we must take back the White House on November 6th.  


Thank you for taking the time to tell me where you stand and for your support in this fight.

Steadfast and Loyal,


LTC(R) Allen B. West
Member of Congress

P.S. This election is the most consequential in our lifetime and I need to know where you stand. Take my issues survey here.

Recommended Reading Rep Allen West – April 16, 2012

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Bill Clinton pivoted and worked with the GOP led House and Senate, Obama has tripled down…

by Congressman Allen West on Monday, April 16, 2012
Mr Krauthammer’s op-ed piece clearly articulates Obama’s disastrous bit of wealth redistribution policy entitled the Buffett Rule. It does not impact our debt or deficit and would require some 250 years just to alleviate one year of Obama trillion dollar plus deficits. Bill Clinton pivoted and worked with the GOP led House and Senate, Obama has tripled down. This is a choice between two ideologies which yield two very different futures for America. I challenge my liberal admirers to show me where in the world has a socialist egalitarian State been successful?

Washington Post Op-Ed - “Free-lunch egalitarianism”  By Charles Krauthammer

Here we go again.

At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country’s spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health-care costs. That was true. He then said the cure for these exploding costs would be his health-care reform. That was not true.

It was obvious at the time that it could never be true. If government gives health insurance to 33 million uninsured, that costs. Costs a lot. There is no free lunch.

Now we know. The Congressional Budget Office’s latest estimate is that Obamacare will add $1.76 trillion in federal expenditures through 2022. And, as one of the Medicare trustees has just made clear, if you don’t double count the $575 billion set aside for the Medicare trust fund, Obamacare adds to the already crushing national debt.

Three years later, we are back to smoke and mirrors. This time it’s not health care but the Buffett Rule, which would impose a minimum 30 percent effective tax rate on millionaires. Here is how Obama introduced it last September:

“Warren Buffett’s secretary shouldn’t pay a [higher] tax rate than Warren Buffett. . . .And that basic principle of fairness, if applied to our tax code, could raise enough money” to “stabilize our debt and deficits for the next decade. . . . This is not politics; this is math.”

Okay. Let’s do the math. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this new tax would yield between $4 billion and $5 billion a year. If we collect the Buffett tax for the next 250 years — a span longer than the life of this republic — it would not cover the Obama deficit for 2011 alone.

As an approach to our mountain of debt, the Buffett Rule is a farce. And yet Obama repeated the ridiculous claim again this week. “It will help us close our deficit.” Does he really think we’re that stupid?

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Our Elective Despotism and how Allen West’s seat will be sacrificed – by Lawrence Sellin

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By Lawrence Sellin

There are many things obvious to ordinary Americans that cannot be mentioned publicly in the polite political company of the Republican and Democratic establishments or among their press agents in the mainstream media, who obligingly pirouette around the truth.

For example, both the Republican and Democratic establishments are composed of hopelessly corrupt, procrastinating control freaks, who seek fame and fortune through over-spending money they didn’t earn and enthusiastically crushing any spontaneous outbreaks of democracy among U.S. citizens, for example, the Tea Party.

Thomas Jefferson warned us of the danger of “elective despotism:”

“They should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when a corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price. Human nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic, and will be alike influenced by the same causes. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”

Unfortunately, the wolf is already in the fold.

Taking the rhetoric up a notch from Jefferson, Israeli historian J. L. Talmon coined the term “totalitarian democracy,” a political system in which lawfully elected representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of government.

If you do not think the United States has become an elective despotism, think again.

One of the most honest and courageous members of Congress in decades, Rep. Allen West (R-FL), is about to become a sacrificial lamb of the collusion between the Republican and Democratic establishments in the state of Florida.

And what is West’s crime? He is an independent thinker and a rising star of the Tea Party movement.

The Republican establishment hates the Tea Party because it has the audacity to suggest that American citizens should have a voice in their government.

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Rep Allen West “When are you – The Press – going to go ask the Senate, what’s up with that?”

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Rep. West and 40 other House Freshman on the steps of the Capitol, Wednesday January 19th, 2011

1000 Days without a budget! Come on Senate!

by Congressman Allen West “This is, to put it politely, a crock.”

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Tomorrow marks three years since the inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama, and yesterday’s Keystone XL project decision is reflective of his failure. It is also an indicator as to what President Obama has as his core motivation, a radical left wing big government socialist agenda. If Senator Harry Reid and President Obama consider me an obstructionist, that is a moniker I am glad to accept in light of their abject lack of leadership and direction. The alternative would be to surrender the Country I love, a Constitutional Republic I, and my family, swore to defend. That ain’t happening so fight’s on!

The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and growth crisis he inherited and the President’s hell-for-leather pursuit of his larger social-policy ambitions. The tragedy is that the economic recovery has been so lackluster because the second impulse keeps winning.

Yesterday came proof positive with the White House’s repudiation of the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada’s $7 billion shovel-ready project that would support tens of thousands of jobs if only it could get the requisite U.S. permits. Those jobs, apparently, can wait.

Unless the President objected, December’s payroll tax deal gave TransCanada the go-ahead in February to start building the pipeline, which would travel 1,661 miles from Alberta to interconnections in Oklahoma and then carry Canadian crude to U.S. refiners on the Gulf Coast.

The State Department, which presides over the Keystone XL review because it would cross the 49th parallel, claimed yesterday that the two-month Congressional deadline was too tight “for the President to determine whether the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest.” The White House also issued a statement denouncing Congress’s “rushed and arbitrary deadline,” which merely passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.

This is, to put it politely, a crock.

Keystone XL has been planned for years and only became a political issue after the well-to-do environmental lobby decided to make it a station of the green cross. TransCanada filed its application in 2008, and State determined in 2010 and then again last year that the project would have “no significant impacts” on the environment, following exhaustive studies. The Environmental Protection Agency chose to intervene anyway, and the political left began to issue ultimatums and demonstrate in front of the White House, so President Obama decided to defer a final decision until after the election.

The missed economic opportunity was spelled out Tuesday by Mr. Obama’s own Jobs Council, which released a report that endorsed an “all-in approach” on energy, including the “profound new opportunities in shale gas and unconventional oil.” The 27 members handpicked by the President recommended that he support “policies that facilitate the safe, thoughtful and timely development of pipeline, transmission and distribution projects,” and they warned that failing to do so “would stall the engine that could become a prime driver of U.S. jobs and growth in the decades ahead.”

Only last week the White House issued a “jobs” report praising domestic energy production, but that now looks like political cover for this anti-jobs policy choice.

State did give TransCanada permission to reapply using an alternate route, timetable indefinite. The construction workers, pipefitters, mechanics, welders and electricians who might otherwise be hired for the project—well, they must be thrilled with this consolation prize. Not to mention all the other Americans who might fill “spin-off” jobs on the pipeline’s supply chain like skilled manufacturers and equipment suppliers, or still others who might work in oil refining and distribution.

Environmentalists seem to think they can prevent the development of Canada’s oil-rich tar sands, and that their rallies against Keystone XL will keep that carbon in the ground. They can’t, and it won’t. America’s largest trading partner will simply build a pipeline to the Pacific coast from Alberta and sell its petroleum products to Asia instead, China in particular.

Such green delusions are sad, and Mr. Obama’s pandering is sadder, though everything the country stands to lose is saddest. If Mitt Romney and the other GOP candidates have any political wit, they’ll vindicate the Keystone’s “national interest” and make Mr. Obama explain why job creation is less important than the people who make a living working for the green anti-industrial complex.

Taken directly from Congressman Allen West’s Facebook Page

Our Republic is on the brink, Should We Revisit Tun Tavern? Patriot Alert!

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PATRIOT ALERT…THIS IS A LETTER WE DRAFTED TO GET IN FRONT OF KEY DECISION MAKERS TOMORROW. THERE ARE TWO GATHERINGS OF HIGHLY INFLUENCIAL CONSERVATIVE POWER PLAYERS THIS WEEKEND. ONE GATHERING IN TEXAS, ONE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

WE SEEK TO GET THIS LETTER CIRCULATING AT THESE TWO CRITICAL MEETINGS TOMORROW. BOTH GATHERINGS HAVE THE PURPOSE OF MAKING ONE, LAST DITCH EFFORT, TO PUT FORTH A CONSERVATIVE ALTERNATIVE, TO MITT ROMNEY, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, OFFER UP A GOP CONSERVATIVE OPTION, SURE TO DEFEAT BARACK OBAMA. WE THINK WE HAVE THE “ONE IDEA.” IF YOU BELIEVE IN THIS “ONE IDEA” AS PASSIONATELY AS WE DO USE ALL YOUR CREATIVE ENERGY, AND CONTACTS TO GET THIS LETTER OUT TO TEA PARTY LEADERS, AND OTHERS, THAT MIGHT PRESENT THIS IDEAL TO THE MOVERS, AND SHAKERS, IN THE ROOMS TOMORROW. THIS IS TRULY A GRASSROOTS, ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE INEVITABLE PARIDIGM, NOW ON A FAST TRACK TO BEING INEVITIABLE.

NO ONE GAVE WASHINGTON’S ARMY A CHANCE ON THAT FRIGID NIGHT, WHEN HIS RAGTAG ARMY CROSSED THE CHILLY POTOMAC. LOOK WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISHED. THEY GAVE BIRTH TO THE LAND OF THE FREE, AND HOME OF THE BRAVE. WE ARE THEIR DESCENDANTS, AND THEIR PATRIOT BLOOD COARSE’S THROUGH OUR VEINS.

FREEDOM HAS BEEN FREE TO US. NOT IT’S TIME FOR US TO GET SKIN IN THE GAME…GIVE IT YOUR ALL, AND LEAVE THE REST TO GOD. “WITH A STRONG RELIANCE ON HIM.”

LETTER BELOW…….

Ladies and Gentlemen

Our Republic is on the brink. We trust you recognize this unfortunate fact to be true. This gathering in Texas on this day resonates like the meetings in Tun Tavern in Philadelphia during our nations founding. If you will allow us an opportunity to reach out in a Patriotic flag-wave, our group “Restoring America’s Greatness” has an idea which we believe has merit, but indeed needs honing. I will spell it out here in simple terms. The names that we have chosen to slot in particular positions would most definitely need to be altered, as this premise is simply from a meeting of God-Fearing, America Loving folks. “THESE are the times that try men’s souls…” Now is the time to think outside the political box.

We fear 4 more years under the Obama Administration will indeed put our Republic over the brink. We also fear that a Romney Administration, while better than the other option, will not turn this ship called America around in a way that would be exemplary to the Conservative cause. Many like-minded Conservative Patriots gather for civil debate on Social Networks on who our choice should be for the GOP nominee for POTUS. Generally like-minded thinkers certainly have different opinions as to who we believe should be our nominee. Because of this, we have come to the following conclusion and following thought of interest:

Why does a candidate have to run for this most important job as a solo act?? In this critical time, would it not be in the best interest of the Republic and of the GOP party to have not only a POTUS nominee, But a nominee who already has a cabinet that he/she could introduce to the voting public? Why should a Rick Santorum, a Newt Gingrich , Rick Perry or any Conservative candidate lose the nomination only because they are out spent?? Why can’t a candidate announce before the Convention who his VP is, his Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and so on?? Wouldn’t a concerned citizenry be invigorated to support, donate, promote and enlighten other Americans if they were given an entire Administrative Cabinet to consider?? 

We obviously understand that this is easier on paper when it is in the real political arena, but here is our point: If, say, Newt Gingrich (simply as an example, our group does not wholly support any 1 candidate, hence our concern) would come out an announce that he is now running with (all examples obviously) Rick Santorum as his VP, John Bolton as his Sec of State, Allen West as Sec of Defense, Michele Bachmann as Attorney general etc etc etc…would that not be a unique, meshing, unheard of opportunity to unite a People??

Politicians would have to put COUNTRY before power, THE PEOPLE before ego. But, we would indeed find our true patriots in government running a campaign in such a unique yet dignified way. Is there a more important time in this great nations history to attempt such an uncommon approach to restoring America back from where she was born??

We ask that you consider this approach while gathering in Texas. “Restoring America’s Greatness” supports this endeavor, understanding it is indeed a dynamic. We hope to hear back from your fine collaborate group at some point in the near future. Thank you and God Bless America!!

by: Mark Bonner, John Swetland, blogged and supported  by Tanya Grimsley 

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