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GOP Senate Candidate Compares Embryonic Stem Cell Research to Nazi Death Camps

"In March 2009, President Obama issued an executive order that removed President Bush’s limitations on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, ending the tragic politicization of the issue that existed under the former president." [...]

GOP Senate candidate, Gary Coleman [R-AR] attacked President Obama regarding this decision:

Embryonic stem cell research is taking the concept of taking a life and using it to conduct experiments so we can temporarily extend somebody else’s life. Let me tell you what I just described. I just described what the Nazis did to the Jews in the death camps of WWII.

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Source: Think Progress 
Science Magazine

When and if fascism comes to America.....

Professor Halford E. Luccock¹ | Democrat

When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled 'made in Germany'; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, 'Americanism'.

Quote Source: WikiQuote
Quotation: ¹Professor Halford E. Luccock of the Divinity School of Yale University made this comment in a sermon at the Riverside Church, Riverside Drive and 122d Street, during the 1930's.

Barney Frank on Arguing With Dining Room Tables

Congressman Barney Frank | Democrat

At a townhall meeting this past week, Rep. Barney Frank, had a revealing exchange with a woman in the crowd. The woman, representative of the kind of far right-wing craziness we've been subjected to recently, asked a question when called upon.

Woman in crowd, carrying a picture of President Obama defaced to make him look like Hitler:

Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly  supported this policy, why are you supporting it?

Barney Frank responds thusly:

On what planet do you spend most of your time? As you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase healthcare to the Nazis, my answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the first amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.

Madam, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

View the video of the incident.

Image Source: Wikipedia
Quotation transcribed by Political Talk directly from the video.

Tom DeLay Calls the EPA the Gestapo

Tom DeLay | Republican

In 1995, DeLay had this to say about the Enviromental Protection Agency:

 The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major clawhooks that the government has maintained on the backs of our constituents.

Source (with audio): CNN 
Image source: MSNBC