More BS Lies From the Right: Allen West Claims There are 80 Communists Among House Democrats

By Hunter | Sourced from Daily Kos
Posted at April 12, 2012, 7:57 am

REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL): I believe there's about 70, 80 to 81 members of the  Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party [in the House of Representatives].

For some reason, a certain set of people in a certain part of Florida decided, back in 2010, that the person they most wanted to represent them in the House of Representatives of the United States was one Allen West. This was despite ample evidence that this fellow was, as gently as can be put, touched in the head. His rhetoric is sketchy at best; some of the stuff in his past is considerably worse than merely sketchy. (I will confess that during the investigations into U.S. abuse of prisoners during the Iraq War, the one thing that did notenter my head was, "You know what, I really think we ought to turn one of these accused torturers into a congressman, they seem really well suited for the job." But I'm not a Republican.) Once ensconced in Congress, he proceeded on his apparent quest to be known as the worst dunderhead in an institution full of them, making headlines again and again for saying profoundly stupid things in profoundly stupid ways, and generally demonstrating to the rest of the nation, once again, that the people of Florida are not really ready for democracy after all.