Allen West

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

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 statement ... More >>

CAIR Officials on NDAA, Indefinite Detention, and Allen West Calling Them an "Un-Indicted 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 ... More >>

Allen West Argues Against Amendment to Ban Indefinite Detention of People Arrested on American Soil (Updated)

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 controvers ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

Allen West Says LGBT Workplace Discrimination Doesn't Happen in America, Endorses LGBT Workplace Discrimination

Say what you will about Congressman Allen West, but the guy can come up with really interesting ways of shooting down ideas.When liberal news website ThinkProgress found him outside of what looks like the Cannon House Office Building last week, a reporter asked him what West's opinions were on "a la ... More >>

Allen West Forms Joint Fundraising Committee With Fellow Commie-Baiting Ideologue Paul Broun

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 W ... More >>

Allen West Joins Advisory Board of Far-Right, Anti-Islam Law Center

Congressman Allen West, everyone's favorite defender of the Constitution, has joined the citizens advisory board of the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative legal organization that has spent more than a decade trying its best to roll back a rather important section of the Bill of Rights.The Michig ... More >>

Allen West Blames Obama for Afghanistan Suicide Bombing

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 ... More >>

Allen West Calls Student Loan Bill Socialist, Votes for It

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 A ... More >>

Allen West Launches First Attack on Patrick Murphy

The ugliness has started. Sort of.Until now, Congressman Allen West has remained almost silent when it came to actually having an opponent in the race for the District 19 congressional seat -- though Democrat Patrick Murphy followed him up there after West bailed on District 22 for friendlier demogr ... More >>

Allen West Is a Troll

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 ... More >>

Allen West Defends Ted Nugent, Fellow Crazy-Eyed Utterer of Meaningless Insults

Allen West has bulldozed himself so far into Crazy Town that the regular people gawking from outside the fence can barely even see him anymore. He's back to calling the president "Barack Hussein Obama," has once again ditched the business suit in favor of a leather vest, and now, in a move we didn't ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Donates to Allen West Opponent Patrick Murphy (UPDATED)

Update, 4/19: Got comment from Wasserman Schultz's camp. Added to the story.Original post, 4/17:Between January and the end of March, South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz donated $73,000 to Democratic campaigns across the country. It's not surprising -- she's chair of the Democratic ... More >>

Allen West Officially Not the Number-One Target of the Communist/Progressive/Democrat Party

Whenever anyone reports on Congressman Allen West saying something ridiculous, he likes to declare that it makes him "the number-one target of the Democrat Party of the United States of America" because they hate freedom, Abraham Lincoln, and people who tell the truth.But a Politico story& ... More >>

Allen West Spent Almost a Million Dollars on Mail This Year

Yesterday, we brought you the details of Allen West's 2012 campaign contributions -- how he's pulled in more than $1.8 million between January and the end of March, with more than half of contributions from donors giving over $200 coming from outside the state.He has $3,334,632 left in his war chest ... More >>

Allen West Campaign Contributions: More Than Half From Outside Florida

Allen West has an interesting fundraising strategy -- while it could be paraphrased as "I said something asinine please give me money," he actually says, "I need you to stand with me against attacks from the liberals and the distortions of the corrupt liberal media.  Everyone who stands wi ... More >>

Allen West Says 80 Congressional Dems Are in the Communist Party, Criticizes Biased Media for Reporting He Said That

It started with a Palm Beach Post article posted late Tuesday night that said Congressman Allen West stated that as many as 80 House Democrats are members of Communist Party "but wouldn't name names."By Wednesday, there was video of the statement, in which West very clearly says "I believe there are ... More >>

Allen West Tells Obama to Get Out of South Florida, Fudges "Obamanomics" Numbers

​Welcome to another post in our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality. In case you were wondering, they usually don't. Today's fact-check comes from not one but two Facebook accounts o ... More >>

Allen West Says Tax on Tanning Salons Is Racist

Congressman Allen West deserves some credit for holding an event at West Palm Beach's Century Village senior community Wednesday -- there aren't many indications he has too much support there, which was emphasized when the 1,200-seat auditorium had about 75 people in it, according to the Palm Beach ... More >>

Allen West Suddenly So Concerned About Due Process, Condemns New Black Panther Party Ransom on George Zimmerman

​Congressman Allen West took to Facebook this afternoon to "vehemently condemn" the $10,000 bounty put out by the New Black Panther Party for the "citizen's arrest" of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon Martin.West called the ransom "reprehensible" and called on the Department of Justice t ... More >>

Allen West Says Stock Market Is Up Because a Republican Will Be President

​Welcome to the inaugural post of our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality.Today's Fact Party analysis comes to you from the world of finance. Congressman Allen West was on Fox News o ... More >>

Allen West Uses Ben-Hur to Vaguely Defend Regressive Tax Plan

​If you were wondering, Congressman Allen West supports the flat tax. If you want to know why, though, it has, ah, something to do with Charlton Heston.West posted a video of himself speaking on the House floor last week under the title, "Why the Flat Tax Works." It's a curious title, because he d ... More >>

Allen West Pushing for War, Says "Iran Is as Dangerous as Nazi Germany"

​It's the perfect storm of Allen West talking points: His arguments for war with Iran combine his love of hyperbolic rhetoric (a "second holocaust" is coming), his ardent defense of Israel, his need to disagree with Barack Obama on every possible issue, and his insistence that diplomacy is fo ... More >>

Allen West "Willing and Ready" to Be Vice President

​When asked about a vice presidential nod by CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien this morning, Congressman Allen West that he is "always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity that the American people would desire.""As far as the vice president thing, you know, who knows what the future ... More >>

Allen West May Have a Totally Legitimate Point About the Afghanistan Qur'an Burning

​When Congressman Allen West starts talking about Islam, people whose livelihoods depend on pageviews usually break out their camcorders, because the odds are pretty good someone's going to get really offended.But West has posted several Facebook messages about the recent uproar over the burning o ... More >>

Allen West Hosting Town Halls Today and Friday; Nobody With a Day Job Can Go

​If you've got anything you want to share with Congressman Allen West, he announced two town hall events yesterday: Today's event is at Deerfield Beach City Hall from 3 to 5 p.m., and Friday's is up in West Palm Beach, at the First Baptist Church at 1101 S. Flagler Drive, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.Sor ... More >>

Allen West's Primary Opponents Don't Really Want to Be His Primary Opponents

​As you may have heard once or twice or a million times, Congressman Allen West is switching districts for the 2012 race, moving north to the newly drawn District 18. He already has an avowed general election opponent in Democrat Patrick Murphy, but West could also be up against two Republicans in ... More >>

Allen West Turns Black History Month Into Attack on Democrats

​Last Wednesday, Congressman Allen West took to the House floor to commemorate Black History Month. As the first black congressman from Florida since Reconstruction, he was in a unique position to do so. West had hundreds of years of history he could have talked about, including 51 years of his ow ... More >>

Allen West on Contraception: Mocks Obama's Knowledge of the Constitution, Completely Mangles Constitutional Argument

​Congressman Allen West sent out his weekly newsletter Monday, barraging his constituents with an almost predictable combination of hyperpatriotic mumbo-jumbo and misguided, pseudo-academic posturing about his favorite book in the history of words, the United States Constitution.Once you get past ... More >>

Everett Wilkinson Might Let Allen West Pulverize Him in District 18 Race

​One day after Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder announced that he'd be running against Congressman Allen West in the newly drawn District 18's Republican primary, South Florida Tea Party Chairman Everett Wilkinson tweeted that he's "considering running" as well."Congressman West doesn't live i ... More >>

Allen West "Most Engaging" Twitter User in Congress

​Just after Christmas, Congressman Allen West sent out two tweets about a colonoscopy he'd just had -- short, innocent messages; one used the phrase "doggone bran cereal." Like most everything else on Twitter, they should have just passed through the ether and quietly disappeared. Instead, 71 peop ... More >>

Patrick Murphy Following Allen West to New District 18 Congressional Race

​Democratic congressional candidate Patrick Murphy's campaign just announced that he will be moving from his original plans to run in District 22 up to the newly drawn District 18 to challenge Congressman Allen West for a seat in the House of Representatives.West announced last week that he was gi ... More >>

Unemployment Rates Dropped in January, Allen West Says No They Didn't

The numbers would make more sense if he were wearing his glasses.​The jobs numbers released yesterday look promising -- the nation's overall unemployment rate dropped from 8.5 percent to 8.3 percent in January, and the rate of black unemployment dropped from 15.8 percent to 13.6, the lowest it's b ... More >>

Swapping Adam Hasner for Allen West Would Replace One Anti-Islam Politician With Another

​U.S. Rep. Allen West's departure from his Broward-Palm Beach district to run for a more Republican-leaning seat up north is undeniably good news for local Muslims. Finally, South Florida will be rid of a congressman who calls Islam "a totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology."But don't start ... More >>

Allen West Campaign Outraises Almost Every Other House Member; Money Coming From Everywhere

​Say what you will about Allen West as a legislator; as a fundraiser, there's no doubting that he's very, very good. Finance documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday complete a picture of 2011 fundraising that reveals he's raised about $5.8 million so far in the elect ... More >>

Allen West No Longer Wants Democratic Leaders to Get the Hell Out of the United States (video)

​Yesterday, Congressman Allen West backed away from comments he made over the weekend that President Barack Obama, Democratic congressional leaders and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (whom he called "my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee") should "get the h ... More >>

Allen West Is Totally Bailing on His Entire Congressional District

​Ladies and gentlemen of District 22, at this time next year, you will be completely rid of Congressman Allen West.Faced with an unfriendly redistricting proposal and growing opposition from national groups including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, West announced this evening that ... More >>

Allen West Just Quoting Everybody All Willy-Nilly, Misquotes Lincoln on Lincoln Day

​Earlier this month, Congressman Allen West said he was "not into name-calling, all that kind of stuff." On Saturday, he said Democratic leadership should "get the hell out of the United States of America." Those comments, at the Palm Beach County GOP's Lincoln Day dinner, got plenty of play on Tw ... More >>

Credo Mobile Creates Super PAC, Immediately Targets Allen West

​A cell phone company is jumping into the fight for District 22.Credo Mobile was founded in the '80s as a long-distance phone service that sent 1 percent of customer charges to "further the causes of human rights, women's rights, peace, environmentalism and an entire progressive agenda." The found ... More >>

Allen West: "Look I'm Not Into Name-Calling, All That Kind of Stuff"

​LOL.That acronym could be a common reaction to Rep. Allen West's comment to the Sun-Sentinel editorial board on Wednesday in response to a question about whether Mitt Romney's a flip-flopper."No," West replied. "Look I'm not into name-calling, all that kind of stuff."

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Broward GOP: Allen West Needs "More Favorable Treatment" in Redistricting

Rep. Allen West, who's apparently "in danger" of losing his congressional seat.​The Broward GOP has looked at the proposed congressional redistricting map for the state and has come to a realization -- Broward isn't going to have a Republican representative if that map becomes a reality.That l ... More >>

Allen West on Gene Sperling: "I Never Met Him, but He Truly Did Seem to Me to Be an Idiot"

Rep. Allen West, the self-proclaimed Harriet Tubman.​It seems like yesterday was another day Congress didn't get too much done, and Rep. Allen West made another appearance on Fox News to run his mouth.The Senate voted heavily in favor of the payroll tax cut extension worked out by both parties' le ... More >>

Allen West: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Will Be Known as the "Sons of Anarchy"

According to Rep. Allen West, Occupy protesters.​Occupy Wall Street -- it's like a fictional organized-crime syndicate that rides around on motorcycles, according to Rep. Allen West.West celebrated the 238th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on Friday, and of course, couldn't go without insu ... More >>

Allen West: Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels Would "Be Very Proud of the Democrat Party"

Rep. Allen West, the self-proclaimed Harriet Tubman.​The sun rose again this morning, meaning another entry in the expanding catalog of Shit Allen Says.Let's preface Rep. Allen West's most recent outlandish statement with the disclaimer he gave shortly after his explanation of the Democratic Party ... More >>

Allen West Justifies Waterboarding by Saying He Saw It Happen in a Demi Moore Movie

Ever seen G.I. Jane? Me too.​In the latest addition of nonsensical statements in the Rep. Allen West file, the congressman -- or "congresswoman," as he was inadvertently identified as by Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade -- made another television appearance to respond to President Obama's rec ... More >>

Patrick Murphy: "I Am Proud to Stand With the 99%"

​Patrick Murphy, one of the Democratic hopefuls in the race for Rep. Allen West's congressional seat, has joined several of his party colleagues -- including DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and former Rep. Alan Grayson -- to come out in support of the Occupy movement.In an email t ... More >>

CAIR: Broward GOP Treats Muslims Worse Than Other Republicans Do

Thanks to West, South Florida Republicans have a bad rap.​U.S. Rep. Allen West has already tried to end federal funding for National Public Radio. But if he needed another reason to hate NPR, yesterday's "All Things Considered" segment should do the trick. The story explored West's view of Is ... More >>

Occupy Palm Beach Protests Allen West Speech

Lisa Rab​Standing in the pouring rain in one of the wealthiest enclaves in the country, the man in the Gators cap did not mince words. "I'm not issue-specific, because there are so many things fucked up right now about how our country is managing itself."And so the Occupy movement came to the Tow ... More >>

Allen West's Response to Request That He Cut Ties With Anti-Islamic Extremists: "NUTS!"

​The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter to Rep. Allen West at the beginning of the month with a request -- quit palling around with Islamophobes.The letter, from CAIR South Florida Executive Director Nezar Hamze, specifically asked West to cut his ties with ... More >>