health care

Greetings to everyone and what an eventful week this has been! Before I begin I must tell you that the Allen West for Congress campaign has without a doubt the greatest Volunteers in the Nation. I am just amazed and humbled at the work they have accomplished in a little over a month in securing the necessary petitions for the ballot. Not only have they collected more than enough petitions, they have also catalogued them for verification.

Greetings Wheels on the Road (WOTR) readers, fellow South Floridians, and all Americans, time for another monthly political assessment. It is 11pm Sunday night, the first weekend of March Madness and my two teams, University of Tennessee and Kansas State University, survived and shall move onto the coveted “Sweet 16”. It is also the evening when our US House of Representatives stand ready to make a decision with immense ramifications for our Republic, the healthcare reform vote….another form of March Madness.

Deerfield Beach, FL - March 21, 2010 - Republican Congressional candidate Allen West (FL-22) released the following statement after the United States House of Representatives passed healthcare legislation Sunday. "Sunday's vote by the House of Representatives was a travesty of policy, politics and process. The liberal troika of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi has once again conspired to trample the will of Americans and strong armed Congress to pass healthcare legislation the public simply does not want.

No open debate. No hearings by Congressional committees. No opportunity for the public to meet with their Congressman to discuss the latest proposal. In fact, the Democratic leadership asked the Budget Committee of the United States Congress to vote for the bill even before the final language has been drafted!

This week marked one year since Barack Obama became President. It was the same week that liberals lost a Senate seat in Massachusetts.

Republican Congressional Candidate Allen West today called the backroom negotiations over healthcare "a flagrant disregard of the trust of the American people." West called on his opponent, Representative Ron Klein, to demand the negotiations be made public or announce he will vote against the bill.

In Frank Capra's film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Jefferson Smith, the wide-eyed, idealistic new senator launches an extensive filibuster on the Senate floor abounding with the truths and vision of our Founding Fathers. Smith ultimately triumphs over the thuggery and lies of the corrupt machine politicians ruling Washington, D.C. This scenario is depressingly similar to today's political scene in our capital, and although patriotic Americans are pessimistic, they yearn to see numerous Mr. Smiths going to Washington to reclaim the basic foundational principles of America. But where will the anticipated Mr. Smiths come from?

“You attack the expansion of government,” said Ret. Lt. Col. Allen West, a Republican candidate for Congress in Florida whom the National Republican Congressional Committee views as one of its strongest challengers. “Improving and reforming our health care should not require more levels of government — health care exchanges, health care czars. We make that argument. That’s the way we start to peel the onion back.” For full article, click here

Here we are again for a West Weekly Wrap-up, as I continue to wonder when will we just have a plain, boring week in America....well, it wasn't this week.

So much happened this week, that at times it seemed as though I was taking a lap at Daytona...In a continued effort of politics as usual for the Democrats, the administration and their surrogates attacked Fox News in an attempt to destroy the news organization.