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talkpolitics“The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it--believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover," Cohen said.
Cohen made his comments late last night, but they have attracted no attention because his speech was made to a virtually empty House chamber with no reporters around to watch.'
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ROFLMAO, no. Germans didn't like the pogroms of 1934 and 1938. The Holocaust isn't generally considered to have begun by scholars until after the Wannsee Conference in 1942 ya dope. In fact Hitler's goons overdid their hatred to the point that German leaders like Wilhelm Canaris were against the regime from the first days of the war. And in any case hyperbole about a government takeover that in fact is no such thing is not equivalent to the murder of 6,000,000 specifically targeted due to ethnic background. I believe Mark Twain said it best "suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. Ah, but I repeat myself."
And yes, Republicans will present the Pelosi-Reid bill as UHC regardless of whether or not it really is that or not. That's politics 101. The usual response is to have counter-propaganda that sensible. But again, Twain was right.......
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Date: 19/1/11 22:45 (UTC)It's so much easier to be wrong but pretend that you're right. Damn I'm confused.
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Date: 19/1/11 23:01 (UTC)Bad example, tho. He should have used things like the UAC.
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Date: 20/1/11 14:51 (UTC)If we sever the actual beliefs and goals of the Nazis, sure, we can use the term to disparage our opponents. People like me, however, will ask at what point any of the many people claimed to be Nazis ever espoused the extermination of 33,000,000 Russians and all Europe's Jews as a prerequisite for a German Empire that encompasses Europe east of the 1914 German boundaries?
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Date: 21/1/11 15:57 (UTC)That was fun to say! Mmm maybe I could be a liberal.