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Tommy_Carcetti

(44,585 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 12:04 PM Feb 2013

Well, what do you know? It looks like Allen West didn't go away after all!

Last edited Tue Feb 12, 2013, 12:38 PM - Edit history (2)

Apparently, he just magically transformed into a crusty old white guy from Texas named Steve Stockman.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/stockmans-full-speed-ahead-as-obamas-top-foil-87494.html


Sticking to the threat even after the actions turned out to be more of a wish list, Stockman landed on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show — where he proceeded to compare Obama to Saddam Hussein for the president’s news conference featuring kids, which Van Susteren dubbed a “little bit of a stretch.”

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Stockman is planning to offer live commentary of the State of the Union address on Twitter with the hashtag #youlie, a homage to Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who once yelled those words during a joint session on health care reform in 2009.

Stockman’s guest at the SOTU speech will be Ted Nugent, a musician and pro-gun advocate who received a visit from the Secret Service after saying in a speech to the National Rifle Association supporting Mitt Romney: “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

And Stockman announced Monday that he is hanging a 10-foot poster outside his office titled the “Obama Failometer,” which will score the president’s “failed” economic policies on a scale from 1 to 1,000. He started the measure off the charts at 1,194.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/stockmans-full-speed-ahead-as-obamas-top-foil-87494.html#ixzz2KhYCKoui

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Well, what do you know? It looks like Allen West didn't go away after all! (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 OP
Oh boy. We got us a live one here. tblue Feb 2013 #1
I wonder how fast sharp_stick Feb 2013 #2

tblue

(16,350 posts)
1. Oh boy. We got us a live one here.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 12:31 PM
Feb 2013

That's why their party is sinking like the Titanic. What failed economic policies?

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
2. I wonder how fast
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 12:49 PM
Feb 2013

this asshole will block me? I'll have to think up one or two decent one liners ahead of time.

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