Shameful

Just over a week ago, Idaho State Senator Sheryl Nuxoll (R) voiced her opposition to Obamacare. The problem wasn't that she opposed Obamacare, a lot of Republicans do. The problem was how she did it, specifically the metaphor she decided to use. She said that Idaho should refuse to set up a state run exchange under Obamacare. She claimed that Obama would wipe out the private insurance companies that are currently being used and begin a socialistic health care system. Here is what she said about those private insurance companies currently being used:

"The insurance companies are creating their own tombs. Much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps, private insurers are used by the feds to put the system in place because the federal government has no way to set up the exchange." - State Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll (ID-R)

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave a speech this week attacking ideas to regulate the for-profit college system.  This is a system that generally puts students far into debt without much of a competitive education.  Her opposition to regulation was not much of a surprise given that her campaigns are heavily financed by that industry.  Here are her own words on the matter:

“‘They came for the for-profits, and I didn’t speak up…’” Foxx said. “Nobody really spoke up like they should have.”

She is paraphrasing German theologian Martin Niemöller on Germans who ignored Nazi persecution. (“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.”)

Can we come together, please, and stop comparing things that aren't horrendous genocide to the Holocaust?  Seriously.  A system that helps millions get health insurance that otherwise wouldn't have it should not be compared to Nazi anything.  Plans to regulate an industry that desperately needs regulation is not killing anyone, certainly not 12 million.  

Ridiculous comparisons like this are an insult to anyone that died in the Holocaust and any of their descendants.  It is also an insult to the soldiers that liberated the camps and actually saw how horrific it was.  Shame on Sen. Nuxoll and Rep. Foxx.

It's sad that Godwin's Law is so prevalent.