Those of you who know of me, know I am Jewish. I am also proud to be a conservative.
Politics aside, I am absolutely appalled at the comments of Rep. Cohen. While he may be Jewish, I can assure you he does not share a history like so many of us.
My grandmother was the ONLY surviving member of her family. The others were murdered in camps. Included in this number was my grandmothers younger brother who she last saw when they were separated into groups upon their arrival. Her little brother was three.
Though she was proud to be a survivor, she could not speak of the horrors she lived through as a young girl. We only know the stories as she was able to write what was too painful to speak.
Had ANYONE that Rep. Cohen loved or even knew lived through such horror, he would never be stupid enough to make such an asinine comparison. Best I can tell, the Republicans who oppose Obamacare are not planning on exterminating an entire race.
Unless genocide is being planned, as a REAL Jew, it is reprehensible to use ANY comparison of the Holocaust to any political banter.
Can you imagine the uprising had any Republican made comparisons of Obama to Hitler on the floor of the House of Representatives? The entire media would be frothing at the mouth for an execution.
Rep. Cohen- if you do not know the definition of a KAPO......you should learn. At least to this Jew, you are revolting traitor to the millions who died as you seek to use THEIR memory to dramatize your misguided beliefs.
Ta’ase li tova Steven!
fwiw
Rep. Steve Cohen apologizes for Nazi comments
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47903.html
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) is insisting that he didn’t mean to call his Republican colleagues Nazis for their opposition to the health care reform law, but nonetheless is apologizing to anyone offended by what he said on the House floor earlier this week.
In a statement released midday Thursday, Cohen said he wants “to be clear that I never called Republicans Nazis.” Rather, he said, he referred to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in a Tuesday night floor speech because he considers Republicans to be peddling “propaganda” in their opposition to health care reform.
“The reference I made was to the greatest propaganda master of all time,” he said. “Propaganda, which is called ‘messaging’ today, can be true or false. In this case, the message is false.”
Rep. Cohen as the typical kapo is a prefect description of this leftist totalitarian disgrace.
You hit the nail on the head.