The Socialist Menace

[we vs us]

Finally.  An Alabama Representative has the courage to expose the rot: 

Touring his Birmingham-area district today, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus started the day in Trussville, where he treated a breakfast of municipal and county leaders to his thoughts on guns, socialists and the federal budget.

As for President Barack Obama, the Vestavia Hills Republican said he has "some hope."

"He's a better listener than George W. Bush," Bachus said. "He tries to get ideas from people."

But he said he is worried that he is being steered too far by the Congress: "Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists."

Asked to clarify his comments after the breakfast speech at the Trussville Civic Center, Bachus said 17 members of the U.S. House are socialists.

Bachus did not support small city officials who asked if he would oppose all gun bans. Instead, he said, it may be necessary to support some assault weapon bans in order to keep all guns from being outlawed.

Now, if only he'll name names . . .

[cannon_fodder]

Bachus did not support small city officials who asked if he would oppose all gun bans. Instead, he said, it may be necessary to support some assault weapon bans in order to keep all guns from being outlawed.

Now there's standing on your principles. 

And socialists in Congress?  NO!  I wish we had multiple parties so we could call a duck a duck, instead of having Conservative Christian Republicans, Libertarian Republicans, Green Democrats, Socialist Democrats . . . blah blah blah.   A Democrat from Oklahoma that has any chance of being elected has about as much in common with a Democrat from New Hampshire as, well, they have very little in common.

Stupid 2 party system.

[Chicken Little]

"The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department."

--Joe McCarthy

Ring familiar?  Bachus sounds like a Jackass Republican...whatever sect that is.

[Ed W]

And no one called him on it?  No one demanded the names of these alleged socialists?  Why do we let these pin-heads get away with this crap?

Chances are,  the Honorable couldn't define socialism anyway.  It's just a convenient pejorative, like secular humanism or whatever else the party's talking points came up with that day.