Goodbye civility as Rep. Steve Cohen says Republicans lie like the Nazis

The Commercial Appeal ^ | 1/19/11 | Bartholomew Sullivan

[GailA]

They don’t like the truth, so they summarily dismiss it,” he says. “They say it’s a government takeover of health care — a big lie. Just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually people believe it. Like ‘blood libel,’’’ he said, pounding his fist on the dais.

“That’s the same kind of thing. The Germans said enough about the Jews and the people believed it and you had the Holocaust. You tell a lie over and over again. And we’ve heard it on this floor — ‘government takeover of health care.’ ”

“... There is no government takeover,” he said.

Cohen’s reference to “blood libel” follows former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s use of the term to describe attacks on her from left-leaning pundits after the Tucson massacre earlier this month.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks GailA. He’s doing the very thing to all Republicans and all conservatives that was done TO Sarah Palin by those of his party — the Party of Treason, the Party of the Single Party State. Nice of the partisan media shill writing this swill to spin it a different way.