Santorum: Master Baiter

Yesterday on the senate floor, Rick "Spreading" Santorum compared Democrats to Hitler. This is the sort of thing that the right howls about liberals doing-- even when they haven't done it (e.g., last year's phony MoveOn attack and Bob Byrd's semi-recent quotation of a historian writing about Germany in the thirties). Yet, here it is:

". . . AND THE AUDACITY OF SOME MEMBERS TO STAND UP AND SAY, HOW DARE YOU BREAK THIS RULE. IT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF ADOLF HITLER IN 1942 "I'M IN PARIS. HOW DARE YOU INVADE ME. HOW DARE YOU BOMB MY CITY? IT'S MINE." THIS IS NO MORE THE RULE OF THE SENATE THAN IT WAS THE RULE OF THE SENATE BEFORE NOT TO FILIBUSTER."

And there's even some fun video courtesy of Crooks and Liars:

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Naturally, when Santorum saw an opportunity to falsely accuse Robert Byrd of calling Republicans Nazis, he leapt at the chance:

"Senator Byrd's inappropriate remarks comparing his Republican colleagues with Nazis are inexcusable. These comments lessen the credibility of the senator and the decorum of the Senate. He should retract his statement and ask for pardon." March, 2005