Allen West Offers Thoughts on How to Avoid Federal Shutdown

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, who has left the door open for a political comeback in 2016, offered his solution over the weekend on how to avoid a federal government shutdown.

This is how I would be ready to respond to Harry Reid's foolishness: I would have a bill ready to fund the government with a 6-Continuing Resolution (CR), at current spending levels, that includes a delay in implementation of the individual mandate aligned with delay of the employer mandate to Jan 2015, West posted on Facebook on Saturday. The six-month CR would also have attached a provision to rescind all 2000 previously granted waivers and exemptions to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and no subsidies or exemptions for members of and staff of U.S. Congress. Also, the CR would require subsidy verification for individuals entering into government exchanges. Lastly, the CR would have attached a provision to stop the mandatory PPACA cuts to Medicare, estimated to be around $270 billion and no funding for additional 16,000 IRS agents called for by PPACA. And Speaker Boehner, feel free to adopt this legislative proposal, there is no idea patent law here.

West also took a shot at President Barack Obama. President Obama quite obviously fails to understand the difference between politics and policy, and instead misinterprets legislative procedure as messin' wit me. How deplorable, West wrote.