It's hard to retain respect for elected officials who lead with hyperbole and not sense. If it is such a bad bill, tell me three things that are bad about it, and what might be done to fix it. If you don't like the idea of addressing the health care issue, just say so. If there is no problem with health care, say so and lead the agenda toward what you think is more important. Simply saying "this is the worst thing ever" lead by shaping public policy.

Have a better idea. That's how it is supposed to work.

If there were Republicans who wanted to distance their party from the lunatics, they can't anymore. This has gone beyond a few Republican elected officials showing up at rallies or saying something supportive, and into most House members participating in a rally with Nazi images and repeating wingnut hyperbole. I realize most come from safe districts where this won't hurt them, but they can't all be safe. Minnesota Democrats are making a determined try to unseat Bachmann in the state's most conservative district. How about those of you in the states of these other demagogues?

set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history

ROFL! I just love how all the liberals are shocked, yes shocked, that some people on the right resort to Nazi imagery, and then fall all over themselves to use it to condemn anyone/everyone who dares speak against liberal programs, *BUT*, conveniently "forget" about how awfully common it was for the left to accuse the right of being facists, akin to Hitler, etc. for the prior eight years during which, apparently, it meant nothing of significance nor reflected upon liberals on the whole, eh?

Judging from the kind of responses I'm seeing here ("repukes", etc.), I'll bet the folks most loudly using this as "proof" of insanity on the right were among the very same moonbats who were slinging around the "Bushitler" nonsense so freely.

Your double-standard hypocrisy speaks volumes!

Here's a little refresher course for all liberals with such "convenient" amnesia:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/gibbs_can_you_imagine_if_5_yea_1.asp

And:

http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/20/hitler-comparisons

Get back to me when you guys manage to apply your outrage in a less partisan manner, and out of actual ethical concern instead of as a cheap excuse to tar and feather anyone/everyone who dares disagree with the stampede towards the far left.

The funniest part is that in this very same attempt to demonize oppponents of the President's ill-conceived policies, Gibbs is himself acting in a way that lends credence to the more hyperbolic accusations. The propaganda war that the Administration has been waging on protestors and less than sympathetic news outlets (as well as trying to threaten and blackmail Democrats who appear on those news outlets) is exactly the kind of thing Goebbels would have been proud of. Irony is so ironic.