As many of you know the other day DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz made some comments on the House Floor targeting Congressman Allen West (not by name) that set him off on a tear.
West well documented response is as follows:
Subject: Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz
Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you directed your floor speech comments directly towards me. Let me make myself perfectly clear, you want a personal fight, I am happy to oblige. You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up. Focus on your own congressional district!
I am bringing your actions today to our Majority Leader and Majority Whip and from this time forward, understand that I shall defend myself forthright against your heinous characterless behavior......which dates back to the disgusting protest you ordered at my campaign hqs, October 2010 in Deerfield Beach.
You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!
Steadfast and Loyal
Congressman Allen B West (R-FL)
Two things, the idea of a guy saying "Say it to my face" in an email is both pathetic and hilarious, and the odd fact that he didn't even address or respond to the issue of cutting Social Security in his response to Schultz who of course isn't just concerned with her "own district" because shes the DNC Chair!
But what he's done since this is IMO even worse.
First lets note that rather than be intimidated or cowed by West's personally threatening tone - DWS has responded well, as shown here with Andrea Mitchell
And her staff have doubled down releasing this statement:
"I don't think that Congressman West is upset at the Congresswoman, but rather with the fact that she highlighted that he and other Republicans are once again trying to balance the budget on the backs of seniors, children and the middle class. As someone who lives in Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz's Congressional district, Congressman West knows that we have hundreds of thousands of seniors in South Florida who have paid into Medicare throughout their lives and now rely on this program to keep them healthy and active. The truth hurts."
Apparently it does, and for some people in pain, their initial response is to whine and amazingly Cry "Racism!"
"The thing that really most aggravates me is that there is this double standard, in that the people on the hard left can continue to attack conservatives and especially minority conservatives, and female conservatives," said West. "But yet when all of a sudden you stand up and you say that you will not tolerate this anymore, then they claim to be a victim -- which I find just absolutely laughable."
The fact that DWS never claimed to be a victim apparently doesn't even slow this douche spigot down. He just keep rolling with his own victimization fantasy
"Well the thing is when you look at myself, or even think about what Jon Stewart said about Herman Cain -- you know, the remark about how he doesn't want to read -- people who are black conservatives," said West, referring to Stewart's jokes about Cain's declaration that he would only allow Congressional bills to be up to three pages in length (Cain later said that this was an exaggeration, not an "absolute promise.)
"I grew up in the inner city, strong values, came from a strong military family and background," West continues. "What we do is we totally invalidate the liberal social welfare policies and programs. And you know, I'm the threat because I'm the guy that got off their 21st-century plantation, and they cannot afford to have a strong voice such as mine out there, reverberating and resonating across this country."
What. The. Frack!? This is a guy who has spent nearly every year of his adult life, even before he finished college, on the payroll of the Federal Government!
And it's not like John Stewart doesn't go after all sorts of people for the sake of a good joke all the time whether their Black, Conservative or other - but seriously the narcissism of this statement is astounding
West could have responded with his previously documented view that Medicare will Destroy America, but No - he's got to concoct this "Victim Black Conservative" narrative as an excuse for his bullying and threatening a jewish woman?
And after people have openly threatened the life of the President specifically because he's black and the 9th Circuit Reversed his Conviction - it's supposed absolutely unfair and beyond the pale to even suggest that some of the vile and rabid criticism of President Obama by West's beloved Tea Party might be Racially Motivated after they've shown pictures and signs with a bone through his nose and Watermelon on the White House Lawn, but we all fail to realize the truly victimized ones are Black Conservatives?
This guy is one twisted Fucktard.
But then again, what do you expect from a guy who was fined $5000 and had to resign his commission in order to avoid being Court Martialed for Prisoner Abuse.
''This could get ugly,'' he told his soldiers. But, he said, he imposed limits: ''This man will not be injured and he will not have to be repaired. There will be no blood and no breakage of bones.''
Still, Colonel West wanted the Iraqi policeman, Yehiya Kadoori Hamoodi, to think ''this was going to be the end'' if he did not divulge what he knew. So Colonel West presided over what he considered a time-sensitive interrogation that grew steadily more abusive until he himself fired a pistol beside Mr. Hamoodi's head.
From that he went to...
I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.
And another example of his bumper-sticker obsession....
“[A]s I was driving up here today, I saw that bumper sticker that absolutely incenses me. It’s not the Obama bumper sticker. But it’s the bumper sticker that says, ‘Co-exist.’ And it has all the little religious symbols on it. And the reason why I get upset, and every time I see one of those bumper stickers, I look at the person inside that is driving. Because that person represents something that would give away our country. Would give away who we are, our rights and freedoms and liberties because they are afraid to stand up and confront that which is the antithesis, anathema of who we are. The liberties that we want to enjoy.”
Yeah, all the liberties we all want to enjoy. Like "One Nation, with Liberty and Justice for All".
But apparently not liberty for some, like Rep. Keith Ellison who happens to be Muslim (and also Black).
WEST: Well I think it’s most important that I stand upon the principles that people elected me to go to Washington, DC and represent them on Capitol Hill. So that when you run into someone that is counter, or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established, you’ve got to be able to defeat them intellectually in debate and discourse, and you to just have to be able to challenge each and every one of their assertions very wisely and very forthright.
Defeat them intellectually in debate and discourse? Is that what "You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives" is supposed to be, intellectual discourse?
When West was called about by Religious Leaders for his attacks on Ellison, he declined to apologize.
Just like when he said this about President Obama:
WEST: There’s a great depth of my conviction, and part of my conviction is telling the truth. I don’t think it’s very presidential when Barack Hussein Obama refers to my colleague, Paul Ryan, as a simple little accountant, either. So I think when you look at what a community organizer’s turning out to be, it does seem to be like a low-level socialist agitator.
This deluded vicious BIGOT is an embarrassment to our nation.
And we wonder why Congress is broken.
Vyan