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    Spencer Bachus Makes List Of 17 Socialists In Congress

    Not too long ago, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was on Hardball, calling for the media to investigate her Congressional colleagues to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America." Well, it turns out that someone has taken up Bachmann's call on a proactive basis! His name is Spencer Bachus and he has made a list -- a secret list! -- of the socialists in the House of Representatives. Or so he told the Birmingham News. Who are the seventeen socialists? That's the secret part, apparently.

    From The Hill's Briefing Room:

    Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) puts the number of socialists in the House at 17.

    "Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists," Bachus told local government leaders on Thursday, according to the Birmingham News.

    Bachus gave the specific number of House socialists when pressed later by a reporter.
    By the way, I can't wait until someone tells Bachus about how "only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism." He is not going to take that news well, I imagine.
    Now all he needs to do is claim he has the names of 57 Communists in the State Department.
    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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    The problem with this is that I highly doubt most of the people railing against socialism with lots of histrionics actually know what socialism is.

    The people who are opposed to it but do so without theatrics? They usually have actual arguments.
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    • #3
      When are the hearings scheduled?
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        Ooh, goody! We get to rant about Obama being anti-American because of all the grovelling he's doing on this overseas trip!
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        • #5
          Originally posted by DanS View Post
          When are the hangings scheduled?
          Sometime next week, though there's some waffling from Michael Steele.
          I'm consitently stupid- Japher
          I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Theben View Post
            Sometime next week, though there's some waffling from Michael Steele.
            He's such a coward.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by chequita guevara View Post
              Now all he needs to do is claim he has the names of 57 Communists in the State Department.
              Breathe in the clear, fresh smell of hypocrisy while it lasts. Who are you to mock her? You want to deprive her of the right to sit in Congress and even vote based purely on ideological grounds. Wait, what's McCarthyism again? Apparently, it's something you have no problem with at all. Except when it affects you and advocates for your particular beliefs.
              "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier

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              • #8
                Are you a ****ing moron or just a regular moron?
                Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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