That's the most incredible string of non-sequiturs I've heard this week! Chances are good that DeMint knows no more about any of those situations/places than is stated in that paragraph.

Why do Republicans glory in ignorance and hyperbole?

Aw dammit, if we're nazis instead of socialists does that mean I have stop threatening to send wingnuts to re-education camps?

It's not that bad, DeMint. It's not as if we have popular election results overturned by a small group of....oh, wait...nevermind.

DeMint is rivaling Inhofe for the title of the most insane senator.

If South Carolina wants to try seceding again, I'm all for it. They can establish the Christianist State of South Carolina, and all the fundie nutters from Maine to Alaska to Texas to North Dakota can move there.

For DeMint's GOP, he only elections that count are the ones that end in a 5-4 vote.

This, coming from the GOP? The same party that brought us warrantless wiretaps, spying on American citizens, stop loss, the end of habeas corpus, the unitary executive, executive privilege, "town hall meetings" with hand-picked audiences, threat of "Nuclear Option", the "permanent Republican majority", signing statements, torture, the EPA and the SEC lying to the public and refusing to enforce regulations, rigged elections, politically-motivated prosecutions, lies and conspiracy to gain support for a pointless war, sweetheart deals for war profiteers who then poison and electrocute our troops in their effort to suck up even more taxpayer dollars, deliberate obstruction of federal investigations? You mean that GOP?

Sen. DeMent, why don't you whining crybabies just suck it up or go away. The crap that comes out of your mouths is unbecoming of normal healthy adults, much less members of the U.S. Senate. I realize that your frame of reference is Crackerville, where talk about the Confederacy and people of color and what you'd like to use your guns for hasn't changed since 1865. Just take my word for it. Your hateful, spiteful, vengeful, ends-justify-the-means, interminable lying approach to dealing with your party's defeat is not shared by most Americans nor does it reflect a person in possession of his faculties. Give it up.

This theme is bubbling up everywhere with these wingnuts. But if they want to be crazy and say crazy, conspiratorial things, fine.

But I do wish that they would get their left and right straight. I suppose it could be deliberate obtuseness, but throwing Nazis in with socialists is just silly. Chavez and Hitler would not likely get along.

I have to admit I found myself not disagreeing with Mr. DeMint - though for way different reasons -
Check out - read through the Declaration of Barmen

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/barmen.htm

It's a mistake to view this kind of talk as idiosyncratic blurting. We hear the same things over & over again: a myth of tyranny with wide resonance. The fact that it is utterly divorced from reality probably counts in its favor, ultimately, with its audience.

Last week I heard perfectly respectable bourgeois retirees and pre-retirees in Tennessee lamenting around the pool that the presidency had been taken over by an illegal alien.

One forgets that this country has been under existential threat from powerless or nonexistent groups for decades: and now they've seized control! This sold a lot of soap in the cold war era, and will sell a lot more.

Like Hitler? Is that the best they've got? Jews across the world should be insulted by the comparison.

Hitler was wrkn WKND!

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Pathetic! If Sen. Jim Demented had his way---Blacks and Jews would still be enslaved.

This explains President Obama's campaign promise to remilitarize the Sudetenland.

Hitler was wrkn WKND!

Glad to see the R party is reaching out across the aisle.

I am surprise the educated readers of TPM are not aware of the similarities brought up by DeMint (although I fully understand he has pretty much discrdited himself to the point few people would actually take anything he says seriously).

In this case, however, look at some of the facts.

1. Over the past few presidencies, the executive branch has become tremendously more powerful, due to the lack of congressional and senatorial desire to work with each other and represent the common folks. They have instead taken the party line of vilifying the other party and everything it stands for.

2. Governmental powers have become intrusive to the point of almost total lack of privacy.

3. The president has, more and more, used "signing" powers, excusing him from any laws he deems prohibit him from doing what he wants.

4. We now have more people with guns, badges, and police powers than we have ever had in our history.

5. Last year, we had our military take on a mission and employment WITHIN our own boarders, something that was declared illegal in the beginning of the 1800s.

6. We have once again decided that our government can torture people whenever the executive branch so desires. Remember folks, Obama didn't take that power from the office, only told us HE wouldn't do it...

7. Our president and congress has decided to protect government officials (and I am assuming those they hire from the outside) from prosecution over torture... (Bush even went so far as to pass a law preventing his thugs from being prosecuted for War Crimes... BEFORE attacking Iraq. Which brings us to...

8. We can now attack other nations at will and kidnap their leaders (remember Noriega and Panama?)... or just kill and injure their innocent people for revenge (Iraq).

9. Germany began building its military long before it began attacking its neighbors. The United States is now spending $400 billion/year on its "Defense" busget... more than all the other nations COMBINED!

10. We no longer deem treaties viable (see Geneva Convention signees)

11.... 12.... 13.... 14...15...

you can add your own...

My point:

Perhaps for once, we need to listen to the messenger... even if he IS normally a whacko.... IMHO

This all could have been avoided if the election of 1860 had gone the other way. Damn repugnicans wanted to keep the confederacy that is now their only base. We should've let 'em go! I'll bet that ol' Dement doesn't even know the derivation of the word 'Nazi,' but will keep yapping about it. Jeesh!

DeMint is utterly clueless. Germany before WW Ii was a dictatorship. It stopped being a social democratic state in 1933, quite a bit before WW II.

Germany before the war? So we're looking at a river but thinking of the sea?

This is the latest salvo in the right's ongoing attempt to rewrite our political lexicon to its advantage.

Fascism has normally been understood as the totalitarian extreme of the political right, whereas communism is the totalitarian extreme of the political left. By attempting to shift the fascism label onto the left, the right hopes to be able to tar the left with both of the totalitarian extremes of the last century, and all of the crimes against humanity that attach to them.

It's ludicrous nonsense, but to the extent that they can get away with it, this would leave the left responsible for all the evils of recent history - Hitler as well as Stalin; the Holocaust as well as Mao's collectivism. The right, meanwhile, remains pure and untainted.

What DeMint meant to say was he took a time machine, traveled back to Germany before WWII, and took notes.

Oh, man. If I think he's full of crap, does that make me Neville Chamberlain? Guy was lame.

I am surprise the educated reader of TPM are not aware of the similarities brought up by by DeMint.

In this case, however, look, at some of the facts.

1. Republicans love America and love Freedom.

2. Liberals do not like America or Freedom.

3. Governmental powers have become big and the president can do whatever he wants almost including using his powers.

4. We now have more people with guns and badges, than we have ever had in our history. I have a badge from eBay, and lots of guns, so I know.

5. Last year, we had our military take on a mission and employment WITHIN our own boarders, and our boarders got upset because their board and rent went up and they were out of work, and the military was getting employed. Or something. But that was declared illegal in 1800, or maybe seven o'clock. I have to check.

6. We have once again decided that our government can torture people whenever the executive branch wants to bring back bad television shows, like things on Fox.

7. We can now attack other nations whenever we have nothing to do and kidnap their leaders or just kill and injure their innocent people for revenge or good news footrage. I guess we've always been able to do this though.

9. Germany began building its military long before it began attacking its neighbors, but they all spoke German and didn't have "rap". The United States is now spending $400 billion/year on its "Defencse" busget... more then the Kingons and Kardassians COMBINED!

10. nazi clones from another place are in our country now and manufacture black helicpoters.

11.... 12.... 13.... 14...15...

you can add your own...

Okay! 11. While I appreciate and defend the right of anyone to offer their observations about trends in the development (or deterioration) of America's government, I reserve the right to make fun at them. They are, of course, free to do the same.

My point:

Perhaps for once, perhaps, we need to listen to the whacko messenger... even if he IS normally a whacko, abnormally .... unless we have somethin g better to do. IMHO. Thank you.

Senator DeMint,

I'd offer to help you pack your bags to move to a safe haven from the Obama-Nazis, someplace in Europe or even Canada perhaps, but those countries are teeming with the dreaded socialized medicine. I know that great American patriots such as yourself loathe facing that almost as much as the idea of those Nazis filled with straw.

So, good luck in Brazil (wait, they have SUS!), uh... (oh, what the hell...) the Marshall Islands!