Allen West Blasts Tea Party 'Schizophrenia' Over Debt Ceiling

Tea Party leaders announced Thursday that they will mount primary challenges against four freshmen Republicans who have declared their support for John Boehner's debt ceiling plan.

According to The Hill, the Tea Party groups are calling the four congressmen -- Allen West (Fla.), James Lankford (Okla.), Mike Kelly (Pa.), and Bill Flores (Texas) -- “Tea Party defectors.”

West addressed the accusations on Laura Ingraham's radio show, saying he would continue to support Boehner's plan.

"I think what we have to ask ourselves is, If you're telling me that I need to vote no against the Boehner plan, then what am I voting for?" West said.

"I'm going to stand with this Boehner plan and, once again, if the folks who one minute they're saying that I'm their 'Tea Party hero' and what, three or four days later 'I'm a Tea Party defector' -- that kind of schizophrenia I'm not going to get involved in."

Listen to the entire interview between West and Ingraham:

Comments

[flyingbee]

02:01 PM on 08/18/2011

Allen West and Boehner appear to not understand that you never pass a "Debt Ceiling" without Revenues. This President should have let it become Law by exercising his executive powers by: not signing it.
The next time they are in for a "Surprise".
So they need to get ready because they will not have it easy again.

[wme98]

09:14 PM on 08/01/2011

West was inundated by so many calls from District telling him to compromise that he had no choice.

[armadillo]

11:01 AM on 08/01/2011

West would know something about schizophrenia.

[daddyo34119]

09:47 AM on 08/01/2011

Allen West challenged from THE RIGHT! Never saw that coming.

[Holden Mirror]

09:21 AM on 08/01/2011

Wasn't this the same guy who was going to "drive the car" over the cliff?

So, who is schizophrenic?

[oldgraymare]

08:52 AM on 08/01/2011

Anyone who (a) totally over-reacts to a fellow congressperson's quite mild criticism and (b) leaps up to shout "I'm ready to drive the car" (over the cliff).....deserves not one iota of respect.

[lifeofthemind]

01:37 AM on 08/01/2011

It upsets me when people use psychiatric disorders as a slur, but at least say the one you mean.

[StillAmused]

01:30 AM on 08/01/2011

It appears West is compelled to dance with them what brought him.

How fitting.

[sanang]

01:26 AM on 08/01/2011

West is a nut, simple as that!

[Aripottah]

12:45 AM on 08/01/2011

Ooops. Looks like Allen found himself at the end of a long branch, 50 feet above the ground. The suspicious sound he heard was the collection of teabaggers sawing off the branch.

At that point I too would declare that the baggers were schizophrenics.

[Skypilotbaby]

10:24 PM on 07/31/2011

West makes the Nation of Islam look like girl scouts.


Nessus

[WiltonDiary]

10:59 AM on 08/01/2011

x 2

[jaiboregio]

09:50 PM on 07/31/2011

We're with you, Congressman West!

[morefromLA]

12:54 AM on 08/01/2011

Right out the door and into hospitalization.

[armadillo]

11:02 AM on 08/01/2011

Good Lord... Splain yourself. Talk like that gets you labeled quickly.

[chatnuptime1]

09:34 PM on 07/31/2011

Hmmm this is getting to look less like a compromise and more like a surrender! Creating a committee that can't be told no as it slashes thru our countries suppport net? Thats just brilliant Democrats.. why not hand the Tea Party and Republicans the sword and let them run it thru Absalute power corrupts absalutely is why we have the Government we have to stabilize the balance of power. I am not a happy camper here.

[Iceguy75]

08:04 PM on 07/31/2011

...The blind has lead the blind and they all will fall...

I wonder what his wife and kids feel about him being unemployed in this economy?

[maymay2]

04:38 PM on 07/31/2011

Well, Mr.West, I guess it takes one to know one.

[sackman]

05:16 PM on 07/31/2011

Its not like we didnt warn him, You cant trust those baggers, they will stab you in the back everytime....