Allen West: "Obama has "Complete Contempt" for Congress

Congressman Allen West told Newsmax that President Barack Obama has “complete contempt” for Congress and is starting to believe that he has an “imperial presidency.”

The Florida Republican says Newt Gingrich is the “smartest” GOP candidate but thinks any of the Republican hopefuls can beat Obama in what undoubtedly will be a “brutal bloodbath.”

West also asserts that sanctions will not succeed in deterring Iran’s belligerency and warns that the United States should not cut the defense budget to make the military the “bill-payer” for Washington’s failure to rein in spending.

West, who was elected in 2010, is a member of the House Tea Party Caucus. He is also an Army veteran who served for more than 20 years, with postings in several combat zones, and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

President Obama has said he is hopeful for an improved economy in 2012. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, West was asked whether Americans should feel that way.

“No, they shouldn’t,” West declares. “President Obama is just going to sit back and hope that things fall into his lap.

“He’s not going to do anything as far as reforming our tax code so that our small business owners have some sort of predictability. He’s not going to do anything to lower the corporate tax rate and eliminate loopholes. He’s not going to do anything to correct the regulatory environment that his administration is putting forth. In 2011, his administration added more than 71,000 pages of new regulations to the federal registry.

That’s not how we’re going to heal this economy.”

Asked whether Obama has given up on “hope and change,” West responds: “I think the president has given up, period, and he’s in a campaign mode. He’s going to disengage from Washington, D.C. That’s not leadership, that’s an abdication of leadership.

“What concerns me is the rhetoric around [Obama’s recent recess appointments]. He is going to bypass Congress. He has a complete contempt for the legislative branch. We don’t have an imperial presidency, but I think that is what he’s starting to believe.

“We have to be very vociferous about this. We’ve got to get in the arena and battle the president and the liberal progressive ideology in the arena of ideas.”

Read more: Newsmax.com

Thoughtsjustoffcenter: I like Representative Allen West, LTC, US Army (Ret). He is a breath of fresh air in a corrupt body of the American legislative process. I wish we had many more Representatives and Senators like him. It is not the governments job to make sure that everyone is successful in life. It's their job to ensure that they have an opportunity to suceed. If someone doesn't use it, it's their (the individuals) fault, not societies.

When is "O" going to provide true leadership? I don't think he can. He has never led anything or anyone larger than a small group of organizers. Has he ever studied leadership, it's traits, or have any of the morals required to be a leader? I think not! He had to have someone else train his dog, as he is incapable of teaching anyone anything.

Leadership & Self-deception, by The Arbinger Institute

No I'm not becoming touch-feely, or maybe I've always been - to a certain extent. This book is an excellent read about thinking outside the box. In our personal lives and in business.

It's almost like all the material we have to read and digest at the Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, TX. It's a good look at yourself and a way out of the box.

It was first published in 2000. They have expanded this, second edition, to enclude more for you to think about. The copy I have is in paperback.

So, are you in or out.

And for those of you who know me, YES, I got it from my wife, the love of my life!

This is NOT Ethical Leadership Being Taught

I just had a short conversation with my son concerning a Leadership Seminar in October being held at the university that he attends.

The instructor informed all of the leadership students that if they attended the seminar that he would give them time towards their community service hours. The instructor stated that he could do this because he was in a position to do so. Anyone attending from the leadership program would help him fill the class and make him look good towards his bosses (I take that as the university).

I told my son that that I would love to be able to attend the seminar, as the subject matter sounds very interesting. However, I would have to ask the question or questions concerning ethical leadership and has he truly lead anyone or organization other than in academics?

Considering he has offered a bribe for any of the leadership students to attend, I sure that none of them (the bribed students) could ask any questions that would cause him to stop and think about what he has just taught them.

Yup, these are the people with compromised morals that are teaching our children that it’s O.K. to lie, cheat, and steal in order to get ahead in society.

No one needs to wonder why our society and nation is on the downward track. That track will soon be irreversible if people don’t start standing up to this type of behavior.

Currently, the media continues to drive the quest for socialism and no one seems to care. Those that do care are being cast as racists and any other slur the media can attach to them.

Wake up America!

Do your homework and research what is being fed to your brain. Look at both sides of the issues.

By the way, listening to ABC then CBS, then CNN, and then NBC, is not listening/looking at both sides of an issue - yet it is a start on your part. Now start doing some research on the internet and at your local library.