Until recently, I thought Spencer Bachus was fairly moderate for an Alabama 'pug

[Syrinx]

Boy, was I wrong.

Did you hear about his amendment Wednesday to abolish all regulation of the banking "industry?"

Here's a little article about it:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28555.html

Maybe Baucus was just trying to recapture the award he got a few years ago for being the funniest congressman.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/131588

His proposal is certainly funnier than anything he offered in his canned bit of tired videotaped "jokes."

I guess the idiot doesn't understand that it was under-regulation that brought the USA economy to the brink of collapse.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/

It's pretty sad when one of the congressmen for your state that you consider relative sane does stuff like this.

Or, when he engages in outright McCarthyism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/spencer-bachus-socialists_n_185364.html