In an interview with Washington News Observer, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) had some rather explosive allegations: he claimed that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett are part of a “Chicago machine” that has connections with “William Ayers, and other nefarious characters.”
“Someone called it a gangster government” he said, and “that tells us what we’ve got in the White House itself.”
Rep. King has a history of incendiary remarks directed at the administration. During Rep. Michele Bachman’s Capitol Tea Party rally in early November, he signed a poster that asked “Ken-Ya Trust Obama?”. And in April, he compared Obama’s economic policies to Hugo Chavez’s.
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