@MontyZuma – I totally agree with the rise of facism, the 14 signs, and how the Bush administration basically employed each and every one of them with great success, but the problem with the Hitler comparison is that Hitler was oh so much more than just a facist, he was a serial killer/mass murderer. And so, the thing about Godwin’s Law is that once you invoke Hitler to make your point, most people aren’t going to take you seriously, because even if you personally blame Bush for every death in Iraq, including civilian deaths and you take the largest estimates out there which are around 100k people, well first off, it’s different qualitatively killing someone in a war situation (even if the war is unfounded) then putting them in gas chambers or turning them into soap. There’s also a difference between collateral damage and intentional ethnic cleansing, and there’s certainly a difference between 100k and 6 million. So I have a lot of criticisms of the Bush Administration and Bush himself, but even though I could intellectually draw some parallels between how Bush and Hitler rose to power and created a PR machine that essentially propagated lies until they were considered the truth (which was really more of an observation made by Goebbels), some comparisons are simply not in any way imaginative or acceptable. Basically, as soon as you make such a comparison, you completely discredit yourself in the eyes of anyone who can think. So, having Rush Limbaugh propegate this myth about Democrats doesn’t piss me off, I actually delight in the fact that he did that because any intelligent conservatives who still listened to him up to that point are quite likely to have migrated away from him because of that. And look at @JLeslie‘s clip, I saw that last night, you see how the entire audience just kind of hissed and gasped as she was making that comparison and how Frank put her in her place by opening MOCKING her? That’s what comparing someone to Hitler will get you. So, indeed I want to have a serious debate on these issues, and if Conservative thinkers have valid points about opposing something Obama wants to do, I WANT them to be able to get their arguments across to him, I think dialogue will create better laws. But the whole opposition to this health care thing for example, the debate that is raging is not about the issues being addressed by reform…it’s all based on fear tactics….fear that Obama is a Nazi, fear that he’s going to institute death panels…it’s as Obama referred to it last year in the campaign, “silly season” in politics right now. And the problem is, much of this fear based rhetoric is actually convincing people, but I believe that once we start to see these same people who oppose reform start to invoke Hitler, a lot of the people who were scared into buying this bullshit are going to think twice.