Thursday, March 03, 2005

If it looks like a duck and walk like a duck then it probably is a Nazi Republican

iWon News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senator's likening of Republican strategy on blocked judicial nominees to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany drew condemnation on Wednesday from top Republicans and the Anti-Defamation League.

Sen. Robert Byrd on Tuesday compared Republican threats to change Senate rules to outlaw procedural hurdles that have blocked 10 of President Bush's judicial candidates to Hitler jamming legislation through the German Reichstag.

'Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side,' the Democrat from West Virginia said. 'Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.'

Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a member of the Republican leadership, said in a statement, 'Senator Byrd's inappropriate remarks comparing his Republican colleagues with Nazis are inexcusable.'

ADL Director Abraham Foxman said: 'It is hideous, outrageous and offensive for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican Party's tactics could in any way resemble those of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.'

Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman said, 'Senator Byrd's invocation of Hitler's Germany ... is reprehensible and beyond the pale.'"

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