2005 or 1933?
THIS IS YOUR PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT YOUR PRESIDENT SAYS:
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, so long as I'm the dictator."
From: Obsidian Wings.
AND WHERE DO WE AMERICANS FIND OURSELVES NOW?
from Reuters: SENATOR ROBERT BYRD ON TUESDAY compared Republican threats to change Senate rules to outlaw procedural hurdles that have blocked 10 of President Bush's judicial candidates to Hitler jamming legislation through the German Reichstag.
"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side," the Democrat from West Virginia said. "Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
SENATOR RICK SANTORUM of Pennsylvania, a member of the Republican leadership, said in a statement, "Senator BYRD'S INAPPROPRIATE REMARKS comparing his Republican colleagues with Nazis are INEXCUSABLE."
ADL Director Abraham Foxman said: "It is HIDEOUS, outrageous and OFFENSIVE for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican Party's tactics could in any way resemble those of Adolf HITLER and the Nazi Party."
Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman said, "Senator Byrd's invocation of Hitler's Germany ... is REPREHENSIBLE and beyond the pale."
SOME COMPARISONS ARE BEYOND THE PALE? WHAT IS MORE OFFENSIVE? THE ACT OR THE RESPONSE? WHO IS BEING ASKED TO SHUT UP? WHO IS UNAMERICAN?
I think that we have been reduced to O'Loofah's kneejerk response: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!!!
(Also helps to plug one's ears with fingers so the only sound is your own voice.)
I for one am outraged we haven't mentioned the Nazis and Bush more. I'll take care of Godwin's Law right off: Bushnazi. Bushnazi, Bushnazi, Bushnazi.
Posted by: ellroon | March 03, 2005 at 10:26 AM
Yes, Byrd's statement was offensive. If you're a fascist, that is. If the Republicans believe this is so beyond the pale, then why not just ignore the statement as the ramblings of an old man?
Posted by: Yagi | March 03, 2005 at 12:25 PM
I for one am outraged we haven't mentioned the Nazis and Bush more.
Yes, Byrd's statement was offensive. If you're a fascist, that is.
Well said. Thank you.
Posted by: The Heretik | March 03, 2005 at 01:37 PM