Really? Already?

There's socialists in the corn!!!

Apparently our elected betters are just not going to whine about socialism and the march to fascism that we're inexorably on. No, one enterprising man has decided to skip that process entirely and move entirely to the Joe McCarthy phase of trying to out the supposed socialists and communists already burrowed deep inside our government. Because that whole process all went so well the first time McCarthy tried it.

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.

He has a list, a secret list, of 17 socialists in the House. While he won't show that list to you, he's totally got it and it's totally comprised of people who are destroying our government. Really though, only 17? Judging from the last few months of right wing punditry and Congressional whining, everyone in the Democratic party from Bernie Sanders to Ben Nelson was a card carrying socialist. Especially one B. Hussein Obama. Not only was everyone a socialist, everything they tried to pass was either pure distilled socialism or the thing that was going to put its thumb on the scale that tips us into a socialist revolution. Now it's just the concerted efforts of 17 House members? I'm disappointed.

At this point, after Michelle Bachmann and Spencer Bachus, if you're a Republican and have the prefix 'Bach' in your name, I'm going to assume you're batshit crazy and two steps away from love knifing me in a parking lot. Democrats and civilians with the same 'Bach' prefix will be treated with the same skepticism. It's the new scarlet letter.