Health care law-Holocaust comparison criticized

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A state Senator’s blog post likening the insurance requirement under President Barack Obama’s health care law to the forced deportation of Jews during the Holocaust drew swift condemnation Monday from leaders of both parties in Tennessee.

Republican Sen. Stacey Campfield of Knoxville wrote the comment in a post titled “Thought of the Day.”

“Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory sign ups for ‘train rides’ for Jews in the 40s,” he wrote.

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney called the comment “ignorant and repugnant,” and called for an immediate apology to the Jewish community. Democratic Party Chairman Roy Herron called the statement “outrageous, pathetic, and hateful.”

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[DanTex]

1. Not the Onion...

[uhnope]

2. Weird, since I've heard talk show hosts make that comparison more than once without

raising an eyebrow

[Journeyman]

3. Takes a lot of chutzpah to post that as a "thought" . . .

[Archae]

4. Stacey Campfield is a real asshole.

His Wikipedia entry has his antics listed.

"Christian" my ass!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. *Yawn* It doesn't deserve criticism. It deserves...

to be ignored. Arguing with it gives it far more respect than it deserves, as it deserves none. Ridicule is the answer to this nonsense.

Criticism is for rational arguments that may be flawed but deserve a hearing. This is nothing of the sort and simply an idiotic comment that gets, at most, slight mention as an example of ignorance.

[area51]

6. And as usual,

republicans are refusing to take responsibility for GingrichCare, since Gingrich and the Heritage Foundation designed it.

[eridani]

7. It is our current non-system that is the holocaust

45K people dead every year because they can't pay for health care. ACA is at least a partial solution. If any foreign country killed that many Americans every year it would be a radioactive parking lot.