Did he do the funny walk as well?
Posted on 05/03/2013 11:09:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson is likening a powerful Michigan Republican to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Patterson referred to State House speaker Jase Bolger as “Adolf” as cameras rolled for the latest edition of the weekly “Off the Record” political TV show, hosted by WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick.
His comments were: “Adolf Bolger has really become very arrogant and he’s throwing his weight around up there and I think he’s embarrassing himself.
“If he thinks he’s going to be a candidate for governor, he better learn how to control his temper and he better learn better how to work with the consensus within his own party. I think sometimes Adolf steps a little bit to the fringe and he’s embarrassing himself,” Patterson continued.
“He called the Republican speaker of the house ‘Adolf Bolger’ for his behavior not only on the issue of no-fault insurance, as one of the aides for Mr. Patterson was denied the right to testify in the committee Thursday, but on other extremist issues which Mr. Patterson simply does not like,” Skubick said.
But the comparison to one of the world’s most hated men didn’t stop there, as Patterson apparently thought his comments needed a visual element.
“Calling the speaker of the house, who is a member of your own party, Adolf is one thing. But secondly, on TV he pulled out of his pocket a comb and put it up to his upper lip looking like Adolph Hitler and repeated the charge one more time,” Skubick said.
Neither Bolger’s nor Patterson’s office were immediately available for comment.
Typical Dem behavior.
Nazi/Hitler comparisons are so over-used, they are cliche.
When will politicians learn to leave the Nazis out of it. It never works. Never ever.
Yes... but doesn't seem to be registered that way...
They are Republicans both.
Did he do the funny walk as well?
Bolger isn't all that great either.
L. Brooks has opened his mouth again.
Anything or anybody that tees off L. Brooks is OK in my book.
CC
I assumed all this time that he was a dem!
The NAZI party was the National SOCIALIST Worker's Party.
Who is this Government Supremacist trying to fool?
The last time Peterson made news was when he wanted guns banned at the Beats and Eats street fair in Oakland. He lost that fight.
Brooks is a old Nixon Republican. He’s probably take that as a compliment.
The good thing about this is the fact that RINOs fighting among themselves is a result of the nervousness cause by the grassroot conservative swell that’s overtaking them.
Oh thank goodness! For a moment there I thought they might compare him to Bush. (sarc - just in case you needed it)
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