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Thursday, September 06, 2012

Republican Warns of Slippery Slope From Student Loans to the Holocaust

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD):
"Not that it's not a good idea to give students loans, it certainly is a good idea to give them loans. But if you can ignore the Constitution to do something good today, tomorrow you will be ignoring the Constitution to do something bad. You could. There are more people in our, in America today of German ancestry than any other [inaudible]. The Holocaust that occurred in Germany -- how in the heck could that happen? And when you start down the wrong road, it can be a very slippery slope."
Today's Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen.

3 comments:

t7 said...

lol because the constitution is the ONLY thing stopping the US from becoming the fourth Reich...

Dale Carrico said...

These days, keeping Republicans out of power is the best way to stop the US from giving in to structural tendencies to fascism in any mass-mediated industrial society that is only notionally democratic like ours.

jollyspaniard said...

If this guy shot himself in the foot he'd be liable to take off part of his head in the process.