So much for civility

The American Thinker Blog ^ | January 20, 2011 | Rick Moran

[Scanian]

Elevating the political dialogue, Democratic style:

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. 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.

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."

Note: If the government can dictate to insurance companies what kind of coverages they must offer, how much they can charge, who they must cover, and who gets subsidies to help pay for it - I would say that's a great big "yes" to the idea of a government takeover of health insurance. But then, what do I know? I'm a Nazi-loving Holocaust initiator.

Also, come back and see me in 5 years when, unless they are stopped, there won't be any private insurance companies. Driving companies out of the market by making it impossible to make money offering insurance to consumers is a feature, not a bug of this monstrosity.

[pleikumud]

Prior to the November elections, Obama said that if Republicans won there would be “hand to hand combat” in Congress. So he said that if the American voters rejected his agenda, there would be violence. What does this make Obama?

[RC one]

I expect neither civility nor honesty from Democrats.

[Lessthantolerant]

Did anyone really thing the socialist democrats would try civility?

Come on....

[Tigerized]

Cohen obviously didn’t have the sand to deliver his scathing and deplorable remarks in front of witnesses, but we do have his performance on video, and archived.

I predict this clip will haunt him until he’s finally exorcised from office.

As it should be.

[TNCMAXQ]

I say again, “don’t let this go to waste.” Boehner and company should use this as an excuse to cancel any planned open seating for SOTU. He can say we are willing to be civil but if we are going to be faced with this kind of hate and vitriol you can forget it.

[wita]

Oh, the media was on this. I live in the middle of the country, and I heard him speak it on the radio. Another dem that would not recognize the truth if it was to fall on him.

[Flintlock]

So this is NOT a takeover of the healthcare system?

WOW, it’ll be SO hard to argue with that...........

[hal ogen]

Aren't those “new tone” DIMs a barrel of laughs??? Their “civility” is so reassuring...reassuring that they remain asshat moonbats who hate America and Americans. Was there ever any doubt? In spite of the pro-mooslim leader, nobama, whining about tone, mainly they are just once again lieing. What's new under the sun?

[wita]

Amen!