Godwin's Law on steroids has officially been injected into the GOP civil war.

[WilliamPitt]

Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers
TPM

During a floor speech Tuesday aimed at reviving the already-dim prospects for his effort to defund Obamacare, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) likened his doubters to Nazi appeasers.

"If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany," Cruz said. "Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, 'Accept the Nazis. Yes, they'll dominate the continent of Europe but that's not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We can't possibly stand against them.'"

"And in America there were voices that listened to that," he continued. "I suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on tv and they would have been saying, 'You cannot defeat the Germans.'"

Cruz said at the outset that he intends to speak until he is "no longer able to stand" in an effort to force Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to agree to a 60-vote threshold for any motion that removes the defunding language from the House-passed continuing resolution.

The rest: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cruz-likens-obamacare-defunding-skeptics-to-nazi-appeasers-video

Derp.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear.

[Richardo]

3. !!!

[The Magistrate]

2. Chamberlain, Sir, Wanted An Alliance With Hitler

Opposing him was the last thing he wanted. His appeasement was more an effort at courting; he wanted Hitler to go to war with Stalin, with England footing the bill....

[Democracyinkind]

5. Seconded. That camp got what it wished for.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "beyond carrier pigeons"

Was his brain oxygen starved or something? What the hell does that mean?

"And in America there were voices that listened to that," he continued. "I suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on tv and they would have been saying, 'You cannot defeat the Germans.'"

I've read it many times, and I still come to the conclusion that Cruz thinks that in the 1940s, people used carrier pigeons to talk about the news.