Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is not a Nazi. But he has a history of voting for policies the Nazis championed. But he is not a Nazi. Nor is he Nazi like.
He just likes a lot of policies the Nazis championed.
That’s not hyperbole. That is actual fact. I wouldn’t bring this up except Sherrod Brown is calling Jim DeMint and Scott Walker “nazis” except they, just like Sherrod Brown, are not Nazis. Or something like that. Senator Brown seems confused. He’s comparing them to Hitler and Stalin, but denying he is comparing them to Hitler and Stalin.
“As a nation, I look back in history and some of the worst governments we’ve ever had, you know one of the the first thing they did? They went after the trade unions,” he said. “Hitler didn’t want unions, Stalin didn’t want unions. [Former Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak didn’t want independent unions.”
This is, of course, cow patties. Lefties like to say things like this all the time, but it is complete and utter nonsense. In fact, in Mien Kampf, Hitler himself wrote:
As things stand today, the trade unions in my opinion cannot be dispensed with. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions of the nation’s economic life. Their significance lies not only in the social and political field, but even more in the general field of national politics. A people whose broad masses, through a sound trade-union movement, obtain the satisfaction of their living requirements and at the same time an education, will be tremendously strengthened in its power of resistance in the struggle for existence.Above all, the trade unions are necessary as foundation stones of the future economic parliament or chambers of estates.
The lefties say this because Hitler dissolved the Weimar Republic’s unions and consolidated them into the German equivalent of the AFL-CIO, basing the unions on socialist equality principles. Yes, he dissolved the unions. But he only did so because they weren’t “union” enough.
The lefties claiming otherwise are ignorant of history.
It might shock Sherrod Brown, who shows no signs of being familiar at all with history, that the Nazis also supported universal healthcare, expanded animal welfare laws, support of healthy, organic foods and vegetarianism, a minimum wage, progressive taxation, and tight gun control — policies Sherrod Brown supports too.
In fact, former Senator Chris Dodd’s father Thomas, is frequently accused by Jewish groups of drafting the Gun Control Act of 1968 from reading the Nazis’ German Weapons Law. A signification portion of Dodd’s law mirrors Hitler’s law, including the “sporting purpose test” first introduced by the Nazis.
Likewise, Stalin did not shutdown unions, but made them agents of the state.
Just to re-emphasize, the Nazis and Soviets loved labor unions. They loved them so much they made them part of the state apparatus.
Sherrod Brown is no more a Nazi than Jim DeMint or Scott Walker. But he is pretty ignorant of history.
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proudgop (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 9:18PM EDT (link)He was just voted the most liberal US Senator too
Who is gonna be the GOP nominee. Heard Congressman Jordan Lt Goc Taylor are in the mix and yet no one is still announced
I don't care who his opponent is, they will be an improvement!
serenna Thursday, March 3rd at 10:41PM EDT (link)I will vote for anybody that opposes him! We can’t do any worse! I’m finally glaf to be in Ohio with Gov. Kasich, ourSenate, amd House Conservative majority and the chamce to vote Sherrod out in 2012:)
Hurry 2012!
Replacements
Paula (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 11:37PM EDT (link)Rep. Jordan would be an excellent senator, although he’s doing admirable work trying to rein in the RINOs in the House. It would also not surprise me to see Josh Mandel go after it. He’s young and doesn’t have any national experience (a plus in my book!) but he’s a rock star here in Ohio and won his race for state treasurer by an impressive margin.
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GOP for Senate
dbkohl Friday, March 4th at 12:16AM EDT (link)Jordan would be an excellent Senator. I lived in his district (moving back to it) when he was first elected a few years ago. He has done great things and the district is chocked full of solid potential candidates to fill his US HR seat if need be.
Mandel is also a good choice, but I would rather see the State-wide eleceted officials complete a term to get things situated and solidified here at home. Otherwise, yeah I’d love to see him run. Anyone else on anyone’s RADAR?
Stalin
Daniel Horowitz (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 9:32PM EDT (link)The Hitler comparison is unfortunately nothing new from the left. The Stalin reference is quite surprising. After all, these guys admired uncle Joe.
stalin
pompey Friday, March 4th at 3:48PM EDT (link)….they did admire uncle joe….because that’s who they are……..
And Lenin,
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 4:13PM EDT (link)They loved that whole omlet thing. And let’s not forget how much they liked Chairman Mao.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
And Lenin,
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 4:13PM EDT (link)They loved that whole omlet thing. And let’s not forget how much they liked Chairman Mao.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
As Lloyd Bentsen Famously Said to Dan Quayle
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 9:43PM EDT (link)“You made the comparison, Senator.”
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
The Nazi Party was the Worker's Party; it was the Union.
davidd Thursday, March 3rd at 9:59PM EDT (link)I expect most people think that Nazi is an abbreviation for National Socialism; I expect relatively few people know that the Nazi party was not simply the National Socialist party but was actually the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, abbreviated NSDAP. What need could Germans under the Nazis have for labor unions? The party was the union. Similarly, what need could Hitler have had for other labor union leaders when he himself was the leader of the Nazi party?
Sherrod Brown was an avowed socialist in the House
Adjoran (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 10:28PM EDT (link)and was one of the furthest left there. He happened to run at the very time Ohio had soured on Bush and the Republicans, never addressed his view the issues directly in the campaign, just attacked DeWine (who did deserve a lot of it) and mouthed empty slogans, and sneaked in.
He should be one of the top targets in 2012. He’s too radical for Ohio and for America. Send his worthless hide to Cuba or Venezuela.
As far as I am concerned
regent2009 (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 10:34PM EDT (link)if you voted for TARP and the so called stimulus package, then you have declared yourself to be a socialist.
“I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!,” Jerry Falwell
Very true
dbkohl Thursday, March 3rd at 10:49PM EDT (link)Brown loves to run his mouth. I was sick to my stomach when he was elected in 2008. He won’t be able to diver attention from his record in the next election. We will run him out of office in 2012.
Any thoughts on a GOP challenger (or slate of them?)
His will be the 1st name
TobyToons (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 11:15PM EDT (link)…that I look for to vote against in 2012 here in OH.
mdbkohl, My stomach felt the same way yours did in 2008.
“A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men… Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general… are generally obeyed as a matter of duty [and] assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.” -H.L. Menken
I have been
GetAClue Friday, March 4th at 8:39AM EDT (link)actively getting people organized to campaign against Sen Brown in my district since his votes on the stimulus and the HC bill. I have sent numerous emails to his office to get his opinion on certain votes and have NEVER been responded too. I have tried calling but have never received a follow up from him.
It will be a good day in Ohio and the country in general when this socialist is voted out of office.
Gee, I'm surprised he didn't run for president...
Next93 (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 8:28AM EDT (link)That formula sounds awfully familiar…where have I heard it before?
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Another Dem playing the Hitler card
NickDeringer (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 10:29PM EDT (link)Yawn.
NickDeringer
...while his president creates union/business/government alliances
Next93 (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 8:30AM EDT (link)Just keep telling yourself “It’s not facism when Democrats do it”.
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Sherrod Brown let us down...
Paula (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 11:46PM EDT (link)That was on the anti-Brown commercials when he ran for the senate. Really, he didn’t let us down because we knew what to expect from him. I think the trajectory of Kasich’s economic plan at the time of the election and the fall-out from all this union rabble rousing will play heavily in whether he is re-elected.
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The thing I thought was funny about it
bk (Diary) Thursday, March 3rd at 11:55PM EDT (link)is that it comes two weeks after Debbie Wossamotta U was whining on the House floor that the terrific Tom Graves calling Obamacare “Obamacare” was a terrible and intentional insult to the President and therefore a violation of House rules.
What double standard?
Sherrod Brown would be better gone
ohiohistorian (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 6:16AM EDT (link)As an Ohioan, I have been in contact with Senator Sherrod Brown numerous times. My impression was slippery and slimy with the way he would reply to me. For instance, when people in Ohio were calling him and writing him opposed to ObamaCare, his approach was to say that “there were a lot of people in favor of it”.
I had the misfortune to be on a tour stop with the good Senator. We have done many other politicians; they are generally friendly, talk to the briefer in a collegial manner, etc. I watched Brown disparage a briefer (he had done a good job) in a pretty nasty way because he didn’t agree with about 4 words the guy said.
Brown needs to be gone. Hopefully, the Secretary of State office is straightened out enough with the new Republican incumbent that he can actually get beat in a fair election.
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—Dennis Prager
La La land
popster Friday, March 4th at 6:45AM EDT (link)is where this guy is coming from. He obviously does not know or read history.
La La Land
Paula (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 1:43PM EDT (link)From the state that gave the country Dennis Kucinich.
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bodenet
bodenet Friday, March 4th at 7:01AM EDT (link)I it always a challenge when those in the media have not even a paucity of historical knowledge. Hitler went after the unions because they were the hotbed of Marxism and the main thrust of the revolution to transform Germany into a communist nation. The rise of the third Reich would not have been possible without the subversive activities of the trade unions and the well organized subversive activities led by Marxists like Rosa Luxemburg. Hitler could not have succeeded if there was not a major public outcry and revolt against the subversion by the unions and the organized efforts for the revolution.
liberal education
Paula (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 1:46PM EDT (link)This is a good argument for a [true, traditional] liberal education, such as what is offered at Hillsdale College. Every student there is required to take serious classes in history (both American and Western heritage), the Constitution, and the Great Books. Not what you get most places if you major in journalism or communications and it shows.
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He's also ignorant of basic logic
Mark Meed (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 7:09AM EDT (link)False analogies such as Brown’s are one of the cornerstones of what passes for arguments on the Left:
I have a girlfriend
Hitler had a girlfriend
I am therefore like Hitler in all other respects
As in the example, such arguments also typically take a Godwinian turn.
Even if what he said had historical merit it would still be wrong, wrong, wrong.
And yet
ssshannon1026 (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 7:32AM EDT (link)Brown and the left will continue to get away with just such comparisons. Why? Because, in fact, they are fascists and we do, in fact, live in a fascist society. The fact that even you feel compelled to be polite about it is proof of just how insidious and pervasive the change has become. And, until we conservatives can grow the testicles required to acutally shout these bastards down and physically push back, we had better all get used to lliving in a fascist society.
Hitler and Stalin
banzaibob (Diary) Friday, March 4th at 7:44AM EDT (link)Also took the guns away from the populace just like the Democrats would like to do. I’m not calling them Nazis or Commies, just saying.
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What do ...
cam1 Friday, March 4th at 8:08AM EDT (link)expect from one who goes to Yale and majors in Russian Studies?
environmentalists
doncorleone Friday, March 4th at 8:25AM EDT (link)The nazis were very environmentally conscious. They had many “green” incentives and practices of the sort that brown champions. They were especially adept @ recycling, just ask the Jews.
You have to wonder...
grampster Friday, March 4th at 8:26AM EDT (link)why the MSM continues to support the far left. There is such a great story in revealing the absolute ignorance that exists on the left. Every day we are reassured of the reality that the far left in government, media,education, “religion” and the rest of their flock operate in the emotion zone and reality is never a close neighbor.
As for the unions, it appears the bed they have made for themselves needs to have the sheets changed. Unions are not au priori bad. They have, like many institutions, been corrupted while their members slept at the switch.
SEN-A-TOR Sherrod - Crawl Back Under Your Rock
1689 Friday, March 4th at 9:14AM EDT (link)Easy tests for those of you who might credit the SEN-A-TOR’s foolish comments:
Which party is in favor of controlling entire segrments of the economy? GM, Chrysler, Health Care Industry, Banks — any of that ring a bell? Which party wants more gun control? Senator Sherrod has voted lockstep with the gun-control crowd. NRA gives him an “F” so far. Oh yes, Hitler passed laws banning the possession of guns; and in particular he banned his political enemies, the Jews, from owing guns:
existing laws of the Weimar Republic (1916 & earlier);
Laws onf Firearms & Ammunition (passed in 1928);
Weapon Law (March 18, 1938);
Regulations against Jews (1938)
(source: JPFO)
And which party is generally in favor of more limited government powers, a far more restrained view under the Commerce Clause?
And to reduce government powers you’d also have to restraiin out-of-control government spending right? That’s what’s really going on here: reigning in government spending and thus reducing governent power.
Who’se the Nazi SEN-A-TOR? Turn that insipid gaze on yourself and you’ll recognize what you describe. Sherrod the Unready – what a dolt.
It is, somehow, reassuring
romeg Friday, March 4th at 9:56AM EDT (link)to know that Godwin’s Law is alive and well.
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis