August 09 ,2009
How low can political discourse go in this country?
The newest charge, led by none other than Rush Limbaugh now that the GOP has all but crumbled, takes the insignia of the administration's health care plan--and its alleged similarity to Nazi iconography-- as a jumping off point to compare the president, the Democrats, and their health care plan to Hitler and his followers. Not surprisingly, Limbaugh's statements have been denounced with outrage by various Jewish groups such as Rabbi Marvin Hier at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
 You be the judge:

As the photo below suggests, Limbaugh followers in Fort Collins, Colorado, have taken up the cry.
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For the most part, Republicans have been crying "socialism" to fight health care, but now Limbaugh, the most powerful voice in the Republican party, has reversed field and gone about as far as possible in the other direction: 
"Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook. Now, what are the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi Party in Germany? Well, the Nazis were against big business--they hated big business. And of course we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism. They were insanely, irrationally against pollution. They were for two years mandatory voluntary service to Germany. They had whole bunch of make-work projects to keep people working, one of which was the Autobahn. They were against cruelty and vivisection of animals, bin the radical sense of devaluing human life, they banned smoking. They were for abortion and euthanasia of the undesirables, as we all know, and they were for cradle-to-grave nationalized health care."




