The ad entries in MoveOn’s Bush in 30 Seconds contest that likened Bush to Hitler sparked a national campaign by the Republican party, evoking pained expressions of outrage and horror that anyone would dare liken the perpetrator of the Florida putsch to the perpetrator of the Beer Hall Putsch.
Meanwhile, the arch-conservative anti-tax lobbyist (and close ally of the RNC) Grover Norquist gleefully continues his absurd campaign arguing that opponents of the Bush estate-tax-repeal giveaway are motivated by the same thinking that motivated the Holocaust. The full account in the Forward is here. (Thanks to Dan Gillmor for the link.) Read it — it’s hilarious. To Norquist, it seems that anyone who believes in fair taxation is a socialist, and anyone who is a socialist might as well be labeled a national socialist (never mind that the Nazis rounded up the real socialists when they rounded up the Jews, the gypsies, the gays and everyone else they didn’t like).
Norquist’s philosophy is, “kill the taxes and you kill the government” — so why don’t we all shut up and stand aside so he and his allies can “starve the [government] beast” until it is small enough “that it could be drowned in a bathtub”? (These are all actual quotes.)
I don’t think Norquist, any more than Bush, is a Nazi. But I’ll tell you: the guy’s rhetoric suggests a seriously disturbed mind. You’d think the Secret Service might want to haul him in for making threats against the government. Unfortunately, in today’s Washington, he practically is the government.
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