The Birmingham News quotes an Alabama congressman as saying there are 17 socialists in the House. 17! Now, I know there's a U.S. Senator who calls himself a Socialist..Vermont's Bernie Sanders...but he caucuses with the Democrats. Officially he's an Independent, as is Senator Joe Lieberman. The clerk of the house says there are no independents in the U.S. House with Congressman Bachus, a Republican from Vestavia. Senator Sanders used to be in the House, so that's means there used to be one...unfortunately our Alabama Representative didn't name the 17. And just how do you define a "socialist?" anyway. And while we're at it, how about a definition for Democrat and Republican? George Wallace used to say "there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two" referring to Democrats and Republicans. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have said the same about a socialist.
[UPDATE: New York Times column on just what "socialism" means!]
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