Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com
Despite empty promises of infusing a new civility into our political discourse,the Democratic Party has returned to type by branding its opponents “Nazis.”Rep. Steve Cohen,D-TN,compared Republicans opposed to ObamaCare with Germany’s National Socialists on the floor of the House of Representatives —then lied about doing so in a nationally televised interview,then insisted he was right,then promised never to do it again. The Congressman was joined in the Ultimate Blood Libel by a comedienne on CNN’s sister network,despite CNN’s recent pledge to defuse polemical rhetoric. (The network’s John King recently apologized for a guest’s use of the term “crosshairs.”) The reversal should come as no surprise. The Left lies as easily as it breathes and maligns or wishes death upon its opponents with greater ease yet. It is more instructive to compare the people liberals brand as “Nazis”with those conservatives find worthy of the term.
The day after Rep. Cohen called his distinguished colleagues followers of Joseph Goebbels,conservative Rep. Dana Rohrabacher also compared a political party’s leadership with the Nazis. Appropriately enough,they were the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. The California Congressman told Radio America’s Greg Corombos of Dateline Washington….