Spencer Bachus Makes List Of 17 Socialists In Congress

UPDATE 4/14: Rep. Spencer Bachus has ignored requests from both legislators and reporters to name the 17 socialists in the House.

Sen. Bernie Sanders wants Rep. Spencer Bachus to start naming names. [...]

When asked for specifics, Bachus named only one legislator -- Sanders, a self-described "democratic socialist," whose vision of a socialist safety net is more Stockholm than Stalingrad.

Bachus' spokesman hasn't responded to numerous requests from POLITICO to name the other 16 lawmakers. [...]

"Has Spencer released his list yet? Everybody's waiting with bated breath," asked Sanders, an independent from Vermont who has enjoyed a friendly relationship with the Alabama conservative since their days in the House in the 1990s.

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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.

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Comments

[AtheistPirate2]

10:00 PM on 05/04/2009

witch***

[AtheistPirate2]

09:58 PM on 05/04/2009

How very desperate the Republican Party must be to for such a "which hunt"

[Ricardo22283]

08:48 AM on 04/24/2009

My question is...WHO CARES?! This is AMERICA...­REMEMBER!!­!!!!!! We're allowed to have more than one party. And since when did Socialism become the new 3rd Reich?! Geez!

[Petey131]

06:26 PM on 04/14/2009

Spencer Bachus speaks confederat­e flags wave

[jamie461]

06:12 PM on 04/14/2009

Unfortunat­ely, our Congressma­n Bachus is not the brightest crayon in the box.

[Sergioevans]

05:02 PM on 04/14/2009

Can he also name who are the Fac.ist right wingers in the House and Senate are?
I might be able to come up with a few.

[italianspaniard]

05:27 PM on 04/14/2009

YOU SAW ME NAKED AND YOU CLOTHED ME, YOU SAW ME HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME TO EAT, YOU SAW ME THIRSTY AND GAVE ME TO DRINK, YOU SAW ME SICK AND YOU TENDED TO ME, YOU SAW ME HOMELESS AND YOU GAVE ME SHELTER, This is socialism at ots best, isn't it?

Foloow these rules and you will be with father

[essbird]

08:52 AM on 04/15/2009

And whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me.

[orlik]

06:55 PM on 05/04/2009

Sounds good, but i missed the part where it says the government steps in and does the sharing, the reorganiuz­ation and the giving , and when , how much, and to hwom. what version of bible you read?

[Forester]

04:44 PM on 04/14/2009

Why do these people hate America?

Because the America they thought existed never did.

And the one that does,

scares them.

[bdaved]

04:42 PM on 04/14/2009

Well, 17 is a hard number to get to with your shoes on. And there's only three kinds of people, them that can count and them that can't.

[JailNeoconVicts]

02:45 AM on 04/16/2009

At least it's a prime number. That makes it special.

[Styve]

04:28 PM on 04/14/2009

Watch...th­e number will change, as did McCarthy's­, per "Good Night and Good Luck". What a tool!! If you go to his website, to try to send him an email, it defaults to a general House listing of email addresses, where you need a zip code to indicate who your representa­tive is.

Will find a nice Alabama zip, and let her rip!!

[Irene Potashner]

04:19 PM on 04/14/2009

And next week they'll be saying "There are exactly 57 card-carry­ing members of the Communist (I mean Socialist) Party in the Department of Defense (woops, I mean Congress) at this time!

[billygore2000]

04:15 PM on 04/14/2009

Are we agreed that it's time to resurrect the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas?

[robeson]

04:11 PM on 04/14/2009

A list of Socialists in Congress would include the entire Republican Party and some Yellow Dog Dems, National /Corporate Socialists­, aka Fascists.

[WorldGoneWild]

04:07 PM on 04/14/2009

Socialists in the House? Who cares! According to that nut over in Russia, Bachus, Alabama and the rest of the southern states will be apart of Mexico in 2010. Can't wait!

[dirtyice]

04:02 PM on 04/14/2009

Give it up..The "RED SCARE" died 50 years ago. To bad the hate groups that keep trying to make people believe the sky is falling are still around.

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

03:52 PM on 04/14/2009

1 name out of 17 is not much of a list. I can make a list A-Holes in congress and i can assure you that it will be at least 45-50 names long. LOL