Republicans compared to Nazis on House floor
ROS sends us a link to Huffington Post which reports on Steven Cohen, Democrat from Tennessee who is just exploding with the new decorum that has been touted since the shooting of a Jewish Democrat congresswoman in Arizona;
“They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said, speaking of the notorious Nazi propgandist. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing.”
Cohen continued to compare the GOP to Nazis as his rant went on.
“The Germans said enough about the Jews and the people believed it and you had the Holocaust. You tell a lie over and over again. And we’ve heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact — non-partisan, Pulitzer prize-winning, 2009, St. Petersburg Times — said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,” Cohen said.
Talk about repeating a lie until it becomes the truth. I suppose the government writing regulations are requiring Americans to purchase something isn’t really government take over. I mean why would 26 States take the Federal government to court over it?
But anyway, HuffPost readers seem to be torn over the proper reaction, which can be heartening, if most of the commenters weren’t cheering Cohen. A fair and balanced sample, in the interest of the new tone;
Category: Congress sucks, Liberals suck
These clowns can’t get out of their own way.
Rep. Alan Grayson has been sent packing, but now we have Rep. Steven Cohen as the new poster boy for psychotropic drug therapy!
One of the overlooked, or perhaps under-commented aspects of this last election is that the Democratic members of the House of Representatives come from the hard core of progressive ideology. What few centrists, or even run-of-the-mill leftists, remain are the Blue Dogs who’ve opted to go into opposition to the Democratic leadership.
The gerrymandering to come from the latest census will further consolidate Democratic districts until only the battiest of them survive. Cohen, and Grayson may just be the vanguard of the new civil Democrats.
Not to go all skittle-unicorn here, but I think it is good to see that not all of the posts toed the “party line.” There was no blanket agreement with the comparison, which sometimes you will see in the Huffington Post blog.
The Dems have always been a “do as I say, not as I do” party, from paying taxes to now supposed civil discourse.
“Nazi’s”? Is that short for “Nazi is” or is it indicating a possessive of something? Times like this make me want to grab that unnecessary apostrophe and beat people with it even if we are supposed to stay more civil these days.
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