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Hope We’re Still Being Figurative

Tea Party Rep.-Elect Allen West (R-FL) is standing by talk radio yakker Joyce Kaufman, who was going to be his new Chief of Staff and then suddenly wasn’t, after news emerged that her calls for violence against the Obama administration was the apparent inspiration for a threat that led to the lockdown of schools in Broward County earlier this week. And he’s defending her with rather battlefield type rhetoric.

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