'Seventeen' Socialists in the House?

Bachus lives in a sick, slimy, confined little world.
Absurd on the face of it, Spence, since there is no law against being a socialist, communist, fascist, Nazi, Young Republican, whatever.
You can just feel the urge on the part of the right wing to gin up the red scare again.

More lame fear-mongering ... and as is usually the case with the GOP, completely out-of-touch fear-mongering.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017676.php

On the other hand, it will excite the teabagg'n-Republican base, who are preparing to take to the streets to protest America's descent into making the richest 1-2% pay their fair share of taxes ... or something.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagging

Senator McCarthy wannabee.

These whacko republicans better get a grip on themselves. This is begining to push the limit. Just the talk of "Obama will take your guns" has led to killing already. There is a fine line guys and you are certainly flirting with it.

Seventeen? Is that all? If he knew what socialism is, using the label would be a lot less surprising. Instead, he makes it sound like socialists in Congress represent some fifth column in a foreign conspiracy.

"I have here a list of 205 card carrying Communists...."

McCarthy Lives. Have they no decency? At long last, have they no decency?

Joe McCarthy would be proud of them.

This is PROOF that Repuglicans in congress have serious mental illness problems. Millions of people are losing their jobs and life savings and this nutbag gets a paycheck for WRITING A LIST? What state is this guy from? ......... Alabama? People who support him and Bachmann deserve to have their own special little state. I'll even name it for them.... Moronica. Imbecilia? Bushland?

Seriously, what kind of work has the Republican party done to earn their paycheck? One 19 page kiddie-can-read budget plan with no figures, and nothing for the 95% of people work for a living but more money for the wealthy oligarchs who tanked our economy. Nothing for the infrastructure, economy, healthcare, crime, jobs, etc. Why are these people earning a paycheck if they are not working for the American people or the country?

It seems the next option for the republicans will be a call to arms. Patriotic....every last one of them.

Is that all? I think we need a recount! There must be at least 100...and they all mascaraed as Democrats!!!

The nuts are coming out of the woodwork. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdOwgD5OsY

I wondered how long it would take the Rabid Right to get into their clownish outfits !!! We are having another witch hunt, ladies and gentlemen of America !! Are we going to burn them at the stake or will we be electrocuting them, this time !!? Why not televise beheadings and make money off of the sideshow !! Leave it to the moronic Right, The Republican (WMD) Party, to attack fellow Americans because they disagree with their failed and stupid policies !!! The Republican(WMD) Party just doesn't know when to get smart and when to stay stupid !! I guess they are going with the latter !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BEING THEM HOMEW, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

incogno,
Yeah, Glenn Beck and the party of 'T-Baggers'. Google that!

Fact is, America has been a capitalist/socialist hybrid since the Teddy R. admin.

Workmans Comp
Unemployment Ins.
40 hr work week
child labor laws
Public:
Libraries
roads
schools
universities
Soc Sec.
Medicare/Medicaid
building codes
zoning
national parks

There's more I'm sure.

Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, its a duck!
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Name names.

CM.
It's funny the Republicans like to claim the mantel of the T-bagging party. (The unfortunate lass is America, alas.)

They can never get their own nomenclature right. When Walks Like a Duck went to South America as VP he gave a big OK hand signal when he got off the plane. It means something else entirely down there.

Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, its a duck!
Posted by: Terry | April 10, 2009 7:37 PM
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Teabag Terri,
Don't be so "hard" on yourself...

Seventeen? That's all??

Just visit the web site.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus was established in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1990s. It reflects the diversity and strength of the American people, and we seek to give voice to the needs and aspirations of all Americans and to build a more just and humane society.
Note that Waxman, Waters & Frank are members of an organization which is anti-capitalistic and they are in charge of the Finance committee. This makes the video on You Tube giving the time line for the banking crises make sense. Waters said Fannie and Freddie were not broke because of Raines. I wonder if those commenting will use Alinsky's Rules of Radicals and begin to ridicule those who disagree with them?

More lame fear-mongering by The Swamp.

But I have a suggestion for Mr. Silva. A suggestion so wild, so unprecedented, so bold, I'm sure it will never be followed. And it's this: Mark, since you write about Cong. Bachus, why don't you talk to him to get his side of the story?

Yes, actually talk to the person you write about. What a radical concept. It used to be called, "journalism."

Here's the number of Bachus's office: 202 225-4921. Unless your phone system automatically blocks calls to Republicans, this number should work.

Truth will Always'WILL out'
truth Can Not be hidden or distroted. Masses believing Lies NEVER makes the LIES a truth.Barring truth does not stop truth.Justice begins with truth.Socialists have always destrpyed themselves for after they destroyed all the people allowed them to destroy they destroyed each other. Too bad for that they never learn but Truth IS Justice

Yes, actually talk to the person you write about. What a radical concept. It used to be called, "journalism."Here's the number of Bachus's office: 202 225-4921. Unless your phone system automatically blocks calls to Republicans, this number should work.

Posted by: Ed Murrow | April 11, 2009 9:11 AM
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Hey Mark,

I agree with Teresa (see above).
You should phone that goofball Wingnut Spencer Bachus and ask him if he has anything else to say.

Nowadays there is nothing funnier than giving a fear-mongering Repub congresscritter (Bachus, Michelle Bachman etc) an open mic and another opportunity to do what they do best - scare and repulse even more Americans than they already have.

The real question isn't how many "socialists" are in Congress (Sanders is the only one I've heard of there), the question is when will voters stop sending to Congress ill-informed ideologues like Bachus.

I think the real question is how many Republican religio-fascists there are in the house.

Give me them names of those pinko, commies, socialist, so I can contribute to their campaigns. Those comrades, along with the Democrats, are the only ones in our government, that care about the citizens of America, and not the corporations, like the Party of the WMD, the Republicans, do !! I wish the Republican Party would just go out there and find those, missing WMD !! That would give them something to do, other that to hope and pray, that President Obama, and America, fail !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Frank You,
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YAWN.

“Give me them names of those pinko, commies, socialist, so I can contribute to their campaigns.”
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Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, America | April 12, 2009 1:10 AM
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I think you already have, Don. They’re called Democrats.

"The Congressional Progressive Caucus was established in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1990s. It reflects the diversity and strength of the American people, and we seek to give voice to the needs and aspirations of all Americans and to build a more just and humane society.
Note that Waxman, Waters & Frank are members of an organization which is anti-capitalistic and they are in charge of the Finance committee. "

See the Right wingers look at the words "a more just and humane society." and they see "anti-capitalistic."

Apparently they want a less just and humane society. They don't want "the needs and aspirations of all Americans" to be given voice. They only want the needs of the select few at the top to be given voice.

It's not so much that they are against socialism, it's that they are rabidly for Plutocracy.

It's a shame some people haven't figured it out by now: this is how Republicans have managed to get in a position where they can royally screw everything up. As long as they could distract Republicans with the "liberal menace", they wouldn't care how radical, how foolish, or how hypocritical the person they were defending was. American needs the Republicans to grow up and focus on real problems and real solutions, and if the current guys aren't up to it, get people in there who can handle it.

Yes they are. Read the book on the 2Nd bill of rights by Roosevelt. You will understand that this has been going on along time. Roosevelt said that we needed only two parties one for Liberals and one for Conservatives and he was for the Liberal Democratic Party. Read the Book!