Crazy and Off Base

Congressman Paul Broun, Republican of Athens, told the following to a radio station in Augusta:

It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force. I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism. That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.

This man is a physician, yet his powers of speech and thought apparently operate without consultation. He thinks radical socialism, Marxism, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union are indistinguishable. What a dolt! He should be expelled from the House of Representatives for illiteracy, but alas northeast Georgia voters overwhelmingly reelected him last week. After the shame of Cynthia McKinney, we must suffer it all again with Paul Broun.