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Allen West Attacks Obama, Warns Him To Stay Out Of Florida

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Republican Congressman Allen West this week on several occasions told President Barack Obama to stay out of his district, Southern Florida, and labeled him arrogant, said his “true intent” is “blatant class hatred” and claimed the President has a “distorted socialist vision of fairness.” Last year, Congressman West told President Obama and Nancy Pelosi to “get the hell out of the United States of America.” He later denied it, but the video of his comments were published on YouTube.

Rep. West, who made headlines yesterday for his offensive, false, slanderous and ludicrous claims that there are “about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party,” in his standard one-two punch media tactic, Monday via Twitter wrote:

Pres in S. Fl 2day using same 1 percenters for $ that he attacks. Turn airplane back to DC, we in FL can do w/out you

Tuesday via Twitter Congressman West added, “I asked Pres to stay in DC & not use S. FL as venue to spread his rhetoric. His arrogance led him 2 not take my advice,” and linked to his Facebook note that republished a copyrighted Wall Street Journal editorial.

“Yesterday I asked the President to stay in Washington DC and not use South Florida as a venue to spread his socioeconomic rhetoric…..his arrogance led him to not take my advice. Hat tip to the WSJ for exposing the President’s true intent, blatant class hatred exemplified in some distorted socialist vision of fairness,” Congressman Allen West’s Facebook note stated.

WATCH: Allen West Says 78-81 Democratic Congressmen “Are Members Of the Communist Party”

Last week, West wrote via Twitter, “President Obama’s recent rhetorical rants over past two days are not indicative of a confident incumbent President…,” and “Disciples of Saul Alinsky are preparing onslaught against nation’s highest court, typical Chicago style intimidation.”

Meanwhile, late yesterday, Politico reported that a “top official of the Communist Party USA on Wednesday ripped Rep. Allen West’s ‘sad ploy’ for claiming that as many as 80 Democratic members of the House are communists.”

“I just think it’s an absurd way to cast a shadow over his colleagues. It’s kind of a sad ploy,” Libero Della Piana, a vice-chairman of the national Communist Party, said of the Florida Republican’s charge that about 80 House Democrats were members of the radical party.

“It’s just guilt by association taken to an extreme,” he told POLITICO. He also said there are no members of Congress who are members of the Communist Party – not even avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

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“I think a lot of Americans were opened up the idea of socialism because of the tea party’s attack on it,” he said. “I think they put it back on the agenda. By attacking every policy initiative of the president as socialism, they put it back in the public debate… it wasn’t exactly something the average American was talking about before that.”

Of course, as The Daily Caller reported, also late yesterday the Allen West campaign attempted to walk back their boss’s false claim, by saying… wait for it…

“One stupid reporter with a local publication misquoted the entire thing, and they all jumped on one press account without verifying,” said [West campaign manager Tim] Edson. ”It’s all typical west wing marching orders for their friends in the press.”

Yes, West was misquoted and it’s Obama’s fault!

Noting “it’s troubling to be called a communist. But in a strange twist, it might be worse to be called a McCarthyite,” The Washington Post adds:

“Communist” was once a potent word, especially when used to describe someone you disliked.

But like the hot rod, the D. A., and the word “daddy-o” as a form of address, it’s lost a lot of its punch since the 1950s.

Is it possible Allen West is delusional?

What is possible is that Mrs. Allen West also does not like President Obama. A source, who took the photo at right, emailed me the following:

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend President Obama’s address on speech at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.  I had tickets that let me get up to the rope line and shake hands with the President.

But as I looked around the auditorium, I was shocked to see Angela West, Congressman Allen West’s wife, in the audience.  Within the last 2 years, Governor Rick Scott appointed Angela to Florida Atlantic University’s Board of Trustees.  So given this was an official visit and not a campaign visit, it would be appropriate for her to be present.

Throughout the entire speech, Angela was constantly making faces and arguing against the President’s points to her fellow trustee to her right.

She was an absolute sourpuss.

You don’t remember Angela West?

Last summer, Angela West, a political appointed of Governor Rick Scott, joined with her husband in attacking gay people by calling them “intolerant,” after her husband was uninvited from a speaking engagement at local Florida business owners’ group. She then outed a lesbian and her partner, a Sergeant in the military —  by name — holding them up as her and her husband’s friends. You’ll remember, is was last summer, before the DADT repeal went into effect.

With friends like the Wests…

 

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‘He Was the Only One’: Trump Mocked for Declaring Iran’s Moves ‘Shocked’ Him

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President Donald Trump is facing criticism and mockery after admitting he was “shocked” that Iran fought back against Operation Epic Fury.

“Trump just admitted publicly that his administration underestimated the Iranian response to his attack,” The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin reported.

During a meeting of the board governing the Kennedy Center, Trump said, “look what happened. In the last two weeks, they weren’t supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East. Those missiles were set to go after them. So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked.”

Focusing on Trump’s “shocked” remark, some critics blasted the president, once again, for what many have previously said is a Commander-in-Chief who was unprepared to go to war against Iran.

The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser called Trump’s comments a “Remarkable admission.”

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Former Republican U.S. Rep. Justin Amash declared, “We are governed by complete morons.”

Podcaster Clint Russell noted, “Just FYI, this is the EXACT reason our generals have consistently advised against a war with Iran. Even Charlie Kirk had laid this all out on his show a couple years ago. Iran was no threat to America but they were fully capable of destroying the global economy by striking oil facilities and transit throughout the region.”

Robert Manning, a Distinguished Fellow in Global Foresight at the nonpartisan Stimson Center, wrote: “If so, he was the only one surprised. Strategic planners have war games this for 40 years. Hard to believe JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] didn’t advise Trump this was likely.”

“I’m pretty confident every war plan US has ever done in last 30 years gaming out this conflict was based on expectation that Iran could in fact [and] would in fact do this,” noted The Nation’s Jeet Heer.

“Every institution built to prevent exactly this outcome existed, was bypassed, and we are now watching the president express shock at conclusions that were already written in the classified assessments he didn’t read,” observed Christine Villaverde, the chairwoman of Anchoring Democracy.

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‘Lazy and Unstrategic’: GOP Senator Slams ‘Republican on Republican Violence’

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A prominent Republican senator is denouncing his own party while lamenting the lack of an official presidential endorsement in the highly contentious Texas Republican Senate runoff election.

Agreeing that it is a mistake for President Donald Trump to withhold his endorsement of either Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton or U.S. Senator John Cornyn, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) warned, “I think the more time we spend millions of dollars with Republican-on-Republican violence, Democrats are in the marketing department, loving the idea of a competitive runoff.”

“I get tired of Republicans being lazy and unstrategic,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju, appearing to suggest there are other ways for one of the candidates to pull ahead.

“People on my side of the aisle, and people at the far right of the political spectrum, are trying to swing for the fences, and they’re not gonna succeed,” he warned.

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A runoff election between Cornyn and Paxton will take place on May 26, and the president has yet to endorse either contender.

Reports suggest a Cornyn endorsement is more likely, although Paxton has been a reliable MAGA supporter. Trump has even suggested that whichever candidate does not get his backing should quit the race entirely, clearing the way for the presumptive nominee to battle the Democratic nominee, James Talarico.

“The Republican Primary Race for the United States Senate in the Great State of Texas,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, on March 4, “cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be allowed to go on any longer. IT MUST STOP NOW! We have an easy to beat, Radical Left Opponent, and we have to TOTALLY FOCUS on putting him away, quickly and decisively!”

He vowed to make his endorsement “soon,” but has yet to do so.

Each passing day gives Talarico more time to campaign and build his war chest as the two GOP contenders spend their time and money battling each other.

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Gas Prices Near $4 in These Five States

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Gas prices are continuing to substantially increase, with five states now hovering near $4 a gallon and several others seeing sharp increases as President Donald Trump’s war in Iran enters its 17th day.

“Big gas price hikes just now starting to happen in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri today, which will likely push the national average to $3.75-$3.80 by mid-week,” reports Patrick De Haan, the head of Petroleum Analysis at GasBuddy.

But, he also notes that Michigan and the Chicago area are already seeing $3.99 per gallon as of Monday. Indiana drivers are seeing $3.89, and Ohio and Kentucky are seeing $3.79 per gallon.

De Haan directly attributes the increases to the summer gasoline changeover and the ongoing Iran situation.

“The national average is up 80.0 cents from a month ago and is 66.1 cents per gallon higher than a year ago,” WANE reports, citing GasBuddy’s data.

Drivers should not expect to see prices come down significantly anytime soon.

“Until we see a meaningful resumption of oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, upward pressure on fuel prices is likely to persist,” De Haan said. “At the same time, seasonal forces are beginning to intensify as several regions complete the transition to summer gasoline, creating a double headwind that could continue driving pump prices higher in the weeks ahead.”

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