The answer to David Corn’s question for today is not a simple “yes” or “no.” It’s slightly more complicated than that, but not a hell of a lot more.

The truth is, David, that the “teabagger” scum didn’t turn the Rushpubliscum Party into an organization of hate just lately. They did that awhile ago, back when they were calling themselves “values” voters. Anyone who looked objectively at their antigay pogroms knew that the gays were almost besides the point; they intended to set a Constitutional precedent in States, from which they could launch their next pogroms. They’ve actually launched their next pogrom-against women-with their “personhood” initiatives on several State ballots. They’ve also tried to write into law that any pharmacist can refuse to fill any prescription he or she doesn’t want to fill for “moral” reasons, which would let them stop filling prescriptions for things like a woman’s birth control (and indeed, “values” Pharmacists have refused to do just that in scattered locations nationwide.)

They are absolutely evil, but they claim a “higher” calling for all that they do. Let’s have a quick look at someone else who claimed that all he did was sanctioned “up above.”

In a speech from April 12, 1922 and published in his book My New Order, Adolf Hitler explains his perspective on Jesus Christ:

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter.

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross.

Now I want you who may be reading this to think about what these people are saying today about “driving out” the “snakes” from the Capitol. How they intend to rid us of the “socialist” poison. And then really, really look at Hitler’s words from so long ago, and just replace a few of them.

The “teabagger” rhetoric is indistinguishable from Hitler’s, if you look at it in this context. And the snippet of Hitler’s speech I selected above is not unusual-it is the NORM with Hitler, as we can see.

“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”

“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”

“I am absolutely convinced of the great power and the deep significance of the Christian religion, and consequently will not permit any other founders of religion (Religionsstifter).”

“A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord”

“Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth… Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.”

Can there be any question anymore? What we have in this country is a Rushpubliscum Party that more or less, through its “base,” is a reincarnation of the foul ideas and hatreds that we lost so many people trying to defeat back in the 1940s.

That’s the truth of the matter, David. They ARE the party of hate, and they have been for some time.

When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: The wing-nuts have taken over the GOP.

Think I’m being harsh? The angry folks at the protest — which attracted several thousand conservatives — held up signs with messages of hate: “Get the Red Out of the White House,” “Waterboard Congress,” “Ken-ya Trust Obama?” One called the president a “Traitor to the U.S. Constitution.” Another sign showed pictures of dead bodies at the Dachau concentration camp and compared health care reform to the Holocaust. A different placard depicted Obama as Sambo. Yes, Sambo. Another read, “Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds” — a reference to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory holding that one evil Jewish family has manipulated events around the globe for decades.

All of this extremism was on display — proudly — at an event that was officially sponsored by the House Republicans. After Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) invited tea partiers to the Capitol to rail against the emerging health care bill, the GOP leadership — somewhat blindsided by Bachmann — jumped on board, providing speakers and logistical support for the event. Certainly, the crowd was not made up entirely of bigots; I’m not smearing all the protesters who oppose Obama’s health care reform effort. But it cannot be denied: Racism and anti-Semitism were part of an official Republican action.

Extremism was also flowing from the podium, where Republican House members were eager for microphone time. Boehner, for one, declared that the health care bill is the “greatest threat to freedom that I have seen.” That’s some statement. A greater threat than Hitler’s Nazism or Soviet communism? About the same time he was speaking, Obama was making a surprise appearance at the White House daily press briefing to tout the fact that the American Medical Association and AARP, the powerful seniors lobby, have each endorsed the health care reform bill. Here’s a question for Boehner: Are these two groups opposed to freedom? And at one point during the rally — call it a Bachmannalia — when John Ratzenberger, a.k.a Cliff Clavin from “Cheers,” claimed that the Democrats were turning the United States into a land of European socialism, the audience shouted, “Nazis, Nazis.” No Republican legislator left the stage in protest. Boehner and his fellow GOP leaders should be asked how they feel about mounting a rally that attracted intense hate-mongering.

So now we find out Ratzenberger wasn’t acting when he played Cliff Clavin; he was doing cameos!

“Junket John” Boehner has an excuse, at least; I’m sure he was so tanked that he doesn’t even remember being there. But Boehner is the worst kind of scum anyway; he was, and is, someone who goes along with whatever his bagmen pay him to go along with. In a way, that’s even worse than some of these “teabagger” idiots.

In any case, Corn just confirms what anyone with a few minutes and Google can figure out on his or her own. The Rushpubliscum Party as presently constituted might as well drape the elephant with a swastika.

Godwin’s Law has already been shoved aside by these scumbags, so I don’t feel the least bit bad about pointing out the truth. Neither should you. When I can take Hitler’s words, and put them right over the top of the words of our “values” set, and make them fit perfectly together, I have made my case. People can get as mad as they want to about that, but they can’t change it.

Tags: david corn, nazis, rushpublicans, teabaggers

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