9. Alan West: Not quite the poster child for How to Win Friends and Influence People, this Tea Party freshman congressman was proud to grind world commerce to a stop by placing his Army revolver at the temple of the national debt ceiling. He further made a name for himself by writing an email to DNC chair and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz that declared her all but a child of … and cc’ing every power player in the D.C. area.
