Dems comparing opponents to Nazis should be careful what they wish for

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As we have recently seen, truculent Democrats staging their mass demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin have been happily carrying posters calling Republicans "Nazis", comparing the newly-elected Republican governor to Hitler, etc.

See examples at: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/02/top-15-photos-from-wisconsin-hate.html

Since they want to bring up such references, a little lesson from history is in order here.

Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. But before then, Germany actually had democratic elections. Paul Hindenburg had been elected President of Germany for years, and in 1932 was re-elected with 53% percent of the popular vote. Adolf Hitler got 36% that year, making his Nazi party the ranking minority party in the German Reichstag (Germany's legislative equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives or England's Parliament).

But Hitler and the Nazis quickly bullied their way into sole control, forcing Hindenburg to nominate Hitler as Chancellor.

And how did the Nazis do this? Any time an issue came up they did not like, but didn't have the votes to defeat (since the people of Germany had firmly voted them into minority status)... the Nazis would stand up as a group, pack up their things, and walk out of the Reichstag building, thus preventing a quorum necessary to hold any votes at all. They would secret themselves in a location from which they could not be forced back into the building for a vote, thus disrupting the democratic process the German people thought they were putting in place during the previous election.

Today, the Democrats in Wisconsin want us to think back to Hitler and the Nazis when contemplating what's going on with their Governor and Senate.

So, OK, I will. Would somebody remind us, again, who exactly is emulating Nazi tactics in the Wisconsin Senate? Which party, again, is the one that packed up their papers, walked out of the building, and fled to a location where they could not be brought back to cast the votes the people elected them to cast? (That group remains out of the state today. There is no word on when they will return.) And doing it in direct defiance of the people of Wisconsin, who deliberately elected their opponents to support democracy and pass legislation this party didn't like?

[beuller]

...Anybody?

...anybody?

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The Democrats are trying hard today, to bring up Hitler and urge us to compare past actions of the Nazis to present goings-on in the Wisconsin state government.

They should be careful what they wish for.

And just maybe, they should study history before trying to point it out to the rest of us.
 
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