Republican Blasts His Defeated Rival's 'Despicable Smear Campaign'

Republican Blasts His Defeated Rival's 'Despicable Smear Campaign'
FILE - In this July 24, 2013 file photo, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hard-line House Republicans are dismissing dire warnings that a government default would wreck U.S. and world economies as another case of hyperbole from an Obama administration that cried wolf about the likely impacts of automatic spending cuts and partially shutting down the government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this July 24, 2013 file photo, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hard-line House Republicans are dismissing dire warnings that a government default would wreck U.S. and world economies as another case of hyperbole from an Obama administration that cried wolf about the likely impacts of automatic spending cuts and partially shutting down the government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Having survived a primary challenge from a neoconservative crony capitalist supporter of the Export-Import Bank, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) had no intention of making nice with an opponent who had branded him "al-Qaida's best friend" in Congress.

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