The Right Scoop
1/6/2012
Rep. Allen West tells Mark Levin that Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. John McCain should come before the House GOP conference and explain why they criticized House Republicans on national TV after pulling the rug out from under them during the payroll debacle in December…
The audio is at The Right Scoop. In the extended interview [second audio clip], the two talk about the cuts the Commander in Chief is making to the military and its impact on national security and foreign policy. Also, there’s a brief mention of ObamaCare.
Also at The Right Scoop, Mark Levin skewers Obama for his radical agenda
Related: Redistricting maps could sacrifice incumbents, like Allen West
Florida’s new redistricting standards, coupled with the 10-year shift in population, has forced Republicans to do what is rarely done in politics — sacrifice incumbents – and that is not going over well with some Republicans…
The possible casualties include U.S. Rep. Allen West, whose Broward to Palm Beach-based district would become more Democratic in every map proposed by both the House and Senate…
Also, Alan Grayson sitting on pile of cash
…Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is reporting today that he already has raised more than $500,000 in the final quarter of 2011 — a big haul that should boost efforts by the Orlando Democrat to return to Congress…..
“This is what People Power looks like,” said Grayson in a statement. His campaign noted that more than 12,000 supporters have contributed since Oct. 1 and that the average amount of these contributions is $42.
Grayson — best known for saying the Republican healthcare plan was for sick patients to “die quickly” — is running in a new Central Florida seat that the legislature is expected to create when finished with its once-a-decade process of redistricting…
Update: Surprise. Obama defense cuts still won’t “cut it”
If we’re going to hit the mark set in last year’s budget agreement for $1.3T in cuts over the next decade, a lot of snipping will be going on. The president is already drawing fire for the major cuts he has proposed to the military, including a large shift to the Pacific region and a major reduction in forces. (These cuts could include as many as 500,000 jobs lost in the military and associated civilian support roles.) But at least it’s getting the job done, right? As the Fiscal Times’ Merrill Goozner reports… not so fast there, skippy.
The broad shift in U.S. strategic thinking unveiled Thursday by President Obama and his top military advisers will be accompanied by $489 billion of spending reductions over the coming decade. Under the plan, the military will abandon maintaining sufficient forces to fight two wars simultaneously, while placing greater emphasis on mounting a forward presence in the Asia-Pacific region. China, according to military planners, is emerging as not just a global economic power, but a potential rival for U.S. hegemony in the region.
But the plan doesn’t meet the $650 billion in defense savings that will be part of the $1.3 trillion of federal spending cuts scheduled to start in 2013, under last year’s Budget Control Act…
Update 2: Just posted at The Right Scoop, Allen West in retrospect: My biggest mistake was Pigford vote
Asked what his biggest mistake was in retrospect from his first year as a Congressman, he said clearly it was his yes vote for the Pigford amendment. But when pressed if he would, in hindsight, take back anything provocative he said, he replied there is “no hindsight” and regrets nothing he said.
This is why I love this man
