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Well That Didn’t Last Long

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 19th, 2011 at 01:43 PM  | 

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Not long at all.

In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

“They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it.  Like blood libel.  That’s the same kind of thing, blood libel.  That’s the same kind of thing.”

And Congressman Cohen didn’t stop there.

“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.

Note how Democrats are more and more quoting Politifact, which is a pretty left-leaning organization. The American people know what this is and that is why they want it repealed.

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  • NeoKong

    Where does he get the nerve to say it’s not a govt. takeover of health care….? That is a statement so divorced from reality that I do not know where to begin.
    The lefties must be taking November a little harder than I realized because as a group they are cracking up.

  • chamberD

    Obamacare was FORCED on an unwilling citizenry.

    There is NO difference between that and this:

    “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ? That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”

    There will be no difference in the outcome now as there was then. We will exert whatever measures afforded by our Constitution to bring it to heel.

    But as our government has committed itself to a living Constitution construct, we see that even our Constitutional protections and avenue for recourse are dwindling with every passing month; how long can we then endure?

  • EMT907

    They said the “biggest lie” was Death Panels.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    nt

  • E Pluribus Unum

    nt

  • earlgrey

    He didn’t know anything about the bill, but you could tell he and some in the audience had gotten their talking points from Pelosi et al.

    Hard to believe he is so passionate about something that he probably knows nothing about.

  • WarEagle01

    of Libtard Nuttiness–specifically, the part that says one can only invoke “blood libel” to describe the false accusation that Jews make matzo balls from Christian baby blood. Seriously, and these people wonder why they’re losing?

  • WarEagle01

    of Libtard Nuttiness–specifically, the part that says one can only invoke “blood libel” to describe the false accusation that Jews make matzo balls from Christian baby blood. Seriously, and these people wonder why they’re losing?

  • stormbringer

    They aren’t “pretty far left”, they are VERY far left.
    In Saint Petersburg, we call them Politi-Fiction.

  • volunteerstate

    this buffoon Cohen at Memphis in May. Shelby County is the only county in Tennessee that would ever elect him. Please accept our sincere apologies, fellow citizens. Tennessee has erred in his election.

  • altexas

    The ‘National Socailist German Worker Party’ or Nazi for short was not much concerned with the U.S. Constitution and it’s Bill Of Rights. I don’t think they held tea parties with a lot of middle aged and elderly productive people spontaniously assembling peacefully of their own will and shared convictions to reduce the size of a growing Federal Government.
    Nazis were Socialists by deffinition. They took over banking, industry and the already socilized medical industry.
    Hitler was a dynamic spealker with a well organized group of advisors and operatives.
    He didn’t need a teleprompter.

  • altexas

    The ‘National Socailist German Worker Party’ or Nazi for short was not much concerned with the U.S. Constitution and it’s Bill Of Rights. I don’t think they held tea parties with a lot of middle aged and elderly productive people spontaniously assembling peacefully of their own will and shared convictions to reduce the size of a growing Federal Government.
    Nazis were Socialists by deffinition. They took over banking, industry and the already socilized medical industry.
    Hitler was a dynamic spealker with a well organized group of advisors and operatives.
    He didn’t need a teleprompter.

  • Finrod

    .

  • Old_Dominion

    Rep. Cohen is a schande vor den goyim. My only sympathy for him stems from the fact that he represents a black-majority district and every primary campaign against him has been outright racist and/or anti-Semitic. He’s still a jerk, though…

  • sharonmcp

    I was just reading an article at The Hill, where the writer takes offense to Mike Pence using the phrase “lock, stock and barrel”.

    Pence: Republicans want to repeal healthcare ‘lock, stock and barrel’

    House Republicans will vote to repeal the healthcare law “lock, stock and barrel,” Rep. Mike Pence said Wednesday.

    The remarks by the Indiana Republican, who is thought to be mulling a White House run, shows not all lawmakers shying away from colorful rhetoric in the wake of the Arizona shootings earlier this month. Pence is also a conservative favorite, and the remarks could be seen as a play for the base.

    Pence made the comments as the House moved toward a vote Wednesday to repeal the healthcare law.

    ?Today House Republicans are going to stand with the American people and vote to repeal their government takeover of health care lock, stock and barrel,? said Pence in a one-minute speech on the House floor.

    In an interview with The Hill, Pence said he continues to use the phrase because he believes clear communication and consistency are important.

    “I think it?s important that we speak plainly, that we speak confidently, and that we speak respectfully,” said Pence. “In this case I think I did that.”

  • Read Chesterton
  • Scope

    this afternoon saying that if you plan on having a shot every time the Republicans lie, you better have a designated driver. Don’t know who it was.

  • chamberD

    From the Family Research Council:

    “There is a real concern that President Obama may attempt to enact his big-government, freedom-destroying agenda through executive orders, recess appointments, and rule making by federal agencies.

    This is what liberals are hoping for. The left-wing website The Huffington Post quoted a top labor union official stating:

    “There’s tons of things that can be done [without congressional approval]. The administration has a vast capacity to act to improve the lives of ordinary Americans regardless of what happens in Congress.”

    Please note the manner in which destruction of our liberties is couched in politically acceptable speech, as in the above words: ” . . . act to improve the lives of ordinary Americans . . . ”

    And if we object to our encroaching subjugation, Cohen and his ilk label US as Nazis. To Cohen I say, if the shoe fits, you wear it, you LIAR AND HYPOCRITE.

  • Lloyd Davis

    from the same script anyway.

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    The truth is far, far uglier and they don’t realize yet how badly they’ve ticked of the majority of people in the country.

  • http://www.buckforcolorado.com bjwilson83

    The words of the Alan Grayson come to mind – the Republican health care plan is “die quickly”. Now that’s a blood libel for you!

  • txgho1911

    555

  • Scope
  • E Pluribus Unum

    I don’t care who ya are……

    Since I double-posted.

  • sharonmcp

    However the words of former Congressman Paul Kanjorski, the Pennsylvania Democrat, saying that Rick Scott, my new Republican Governor in Florida, should be put against a wall and shot, will forever be imprinted in this Floridian’s mind.

    “That Scott down there that’s running for governor of Florida,” Mr. Kanjorski said. “Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him [sic] and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he’s running for governor of Florida. He’s a millionaire and a billionaire. He’s no hero. He’s a damn crook. It’s just we don’t prosecute big crooks.”

  • rickbull

    the lie of the year: “A government takeover of health care.”

    According to RickBull: The half-truth of the decade: “Tax cuts for the rich.”

    Eventually, all will have to admit that the former was the truth, and they have already admitted that the latter was a lie.

  • carlfromgeorgia

    I read that Cohen denies the Armenian genocide. I guess it all depends on whose ox is being gored.

    See:
    http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=1548

  • runner12

    Seriously, that guy is an embarassment to the human race.

  • runner12

    “new civility” rules is a Democrat. It actually makes me chuckle to myself a little because of how ridiculous this guy has made himself. It did not take them long to prove every point we have been making for the last 2 weeks regarding their hateful rhetoric. I mean, when liberal CNN is scolding you for your behavior you know it is bad.

  • runner12

    “new civility” rules is a Democrat. It actually makes me chuckle to myself a little because of how ridiculous this guy has made himself. It did not take them long to prove every point we have been making for the last 2 weeks regarding their hateful rhetoric. I mean, when liberal CNN is scolding you for your behavior you know it is bad.

  • rickbull

    There are a number of conflicting “origins” of the phrase “lock, stock and barrel.” Could mean the parts of a flintlock rifle–could be a shopkeeper’s lock on the door, stock of merchandise and pickle barrel–could be the lock on the gate to the farm, the livestock and the rain barrel.

    I say that the liberals are fishing for something to attack with, so . . .

    I say let ‘em have it, HOOK, LINE AND SINKER!

  • 6eorge Jetson

    I didn’t get a chance to pull up beside him and ask what was up with the “Person iN Cahr: Douchebag” abbreviation. Musta been from Boston.

  • Jim Tomasik

    http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_65/-202334-1.html

  • sharonmcp

    As I said in my comment to that article at The Hill, anyone with half a brain realizes that phrase usually means, everything included.

    Like, the whole shebang. But I guess we can’t use that phrase anymore because it contains the word bang.

    How about the whole enchilada, or would that be offensive to Mexicans?

  • sharonmcp

    somebody slaps the smirk off that smarmy little twerp’s face.

    I mean figuratively of course.

  • sharonmcp

    Roll Call

    ?[T]here has been a stream of violence and threats of violence by the right wing against Democrats. [Rep. Gabrielle Giffords] warned against it, and then became a terrible victim of it. Palin has instigated it, and then tried to pretend that it doesn?t exist,? Grayson wrote in an e-mail to supporters.

    …Below the former Congressman?s signature in the e-mail is a link to donate to his campaign, and a disclaimer on that page notes that ?unless Alan Grayson declares his candidacy for other office, all contributions will be deemed to be for the 2010 congressional campaign or earlier.?