{"id":13087,"date":"2013-09-26T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13087"},"modified":"2013-09-26T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T01:12:41","slug":"ted-cruz-and-adolf-hitler-and-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/09\/26\/ted-cruz-and-adolf-hitler-and-john-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz and Adolf Hitler and John McCain."},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Analogies on the Republican Congress<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, 11, because the “Honorable Mention” is the most amusing one.\u00c2\u00a0 Arguably the only one worth noting.\u00c2\u00a0 Because if you want to make an allusion, what you want is to something of either obscurity or convolution.<\/p>\n

There is something in the latest “tiff” between McCain and Cru<\/a>z.<\/p>\n

Now the angry veteran of GOP politics is after Cruz once again. This time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about a reference to appeasement of Adolf Hitler that Cruz made during his epic 21-hour fili-talkathon against Obamacare on the Senate floor.<\/em>
\nThis came during a long section in which Cruz was talking about times in history when \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pundits\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said things could not be done, but then they were.<\/em>
\nFor instance, during the Civil War, there \u00e2\u20ac\u0153were a lot of voices who said the Union cannot be saved,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cruz said, but it was.<\/em>
\nThen came the Nazi part.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany \u00e2\u20ac\u201c look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appease them. Why? Because it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be done. We cannot possibly stand against them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cruz said.<\/em>
\nAt this, McCain took umbrage. Why? Well, for one thing, umbrage and McCain are well acquainted. For another, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because this seems like a reference to the GOP Senate establishment, which disdained Cruz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talkathon against Obamacare as a waste of time. Democrats control the Senate, in this view, and President Obama will veto anything that defunds his signature health law achievement.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also… um… Hitler?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I resoundingly reject that allegation. That allegation, in my view, does a great disservice. I do not agree with that comparison. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d McCain said on the Senate floor shortly after Cruz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech ended.
\nMcCain went on to say that Cruz had told him he was speaking only about talking heads, but McCain wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buying it. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I find that a difference without a distinction. I find that something that I think I have to respond to,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d McCain said.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

We note… perhaps?\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps not?\u00c2\u00a0 We can’t distinguish McCain from the “talking heads”.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s got a regular practically weekly shot on the Sunday political talk shows.\u00c2\u00a0 But somehow this is neither here nor there, because… um… again… Hitler?<\/p>\n

So he continued responding, saying in essence that to compare the two situations was pretty objectionable, considering. Left unsaid was the obvious point that as a war veteran and former POW, whose grandfather commanded US naval air forces at Guadalcanal and whose father captained a World War II sub in the Pacific, McCain does not think comparisons between the legislative process and Hitler should be made too easily.<\/em>
\nHe did say that the voters had the chance to consider Obamacare in 2012 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the GOP nominee lost.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The people spoke: They spoke much to my dismay. But they spoke, and they reelected the president of the United States,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d McCain said.<\/em>
\nGiven that McCain took to the floor shortly after Cruz left it, his words were something of a purposeful slap in the face. Cruz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conservative supporters replied in kind.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beltway barnacle McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longevity is NOT admirable. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bane,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tweeted right-leaning pundit Michelle Malkin.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Right leaning pundit” Michell Malkin.
\nKind of like saying… (wait for it, me… mr. ironist…)
\n“Right leaning historical figure… Adolf Hi” … oh, never mind.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun for Dems when McCain lights into Cruz, but no Republican\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s criticism does more to endear Cruz to the base,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tweeted Slate political analyst Dave Weigel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, well.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever.<\/p>\n

My favorite bit from the latest Hitler bash<\/a>…<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, the Anti-Defamation League weighed in. “I wish Senator Cruz would have used another comparison, but his statement does not trivialize the Holocaust,” Abraham Foxman, national director of the ADL, said in a statement sent to Mother Jones.<\/em><\/p>\n

You know.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re the Anti Defamation League, maybe you have to pick your battles.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe you get a little tired that every time some politico figure throws out a terrible Hitler analogy, you get a call and are asked for a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10 Analogies on the Republican Congress.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, 11, because the “Honorable Mention” is the most amusing one.\u00c2\u00a0 Arguably the only one worth noting.\u00c2\u00a0 Because if you want to make an allusion, what you want is to something of either obscurity or convolution. There is something in the latest “tiff” between McCain and Cruz. Now the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13089,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions\/13089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}