Go Get ‘Em LTC WEST!
LTC Alan West gives voice to many Fiscal Conservatives in the GOP. The FL GOP rewarded him by re-redistricting him, now he has a tougher road to re-election. Re-district a rising star who is nationally recognized as a proven leader? We have some real pin-heads in charge of the GOP.
Rep. Allen West: House and Senate GOP Leaders ‘Sold us Down the Road’ on Payroll Tax Cut
CNSNews.com) – Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a Tea Party favorite, talking about the deal to extend payroll tax cut brokered by House leadership and the White House, said that the GOP House leadership had caved in to Senate GOP leaders, who “sold us down the road” for “pathetic politics” in the form of a two-month extension.
“I was very upset about what happened with this payroll tax cut extension,” West told WMAL radio station in Baltimore, Friday morning.
“We developed a good piece of legislation that took care of us for one year. It was paid for and would not decimate social security, unemployment insurance and also a two-year ‘doc fix’ and then, all of the sudden — I get back from D.C. on a Wednesday — the next day, on a Thursday, we have a conference call and we’re told were going to accept the Senate, what, two-month extension, which is absolutely pathetic policy.
“We can’t do tax policy that way,” he added.
West said that when the House Republican members get back to Washington on Jan. 17 they plan to have “some serious discussions” about getting “on the same sheet of music” because, he said, the House leadership did them a disservice by caving in to Senate Republican leadership by passing the two-month payroll tax cut extension in December.
“(W)e really felt that our leadership did not stand against the Senate Republican leadership, who kind of sold us down the road with 40 members of the Senate GOP voted for this, you know, pathetic politics. It was not policy,” West added. “And now we are going to start this Kabuki dance all over again.”
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