Louie Gohmert Invokes Holocaust While Railing Against Debt (VIDEO)

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) attempted to deliver a dire warning about debt and deficits during a House floor address Friday. While doing so, however, he managed to spin a cautionary historical tale linking the current trend of spending to the Holocaust.

After claiming that ignoring what he depicted as the current budget crisis would cause Congress to "lose the country," Gohmert delved into his analysis of post-World War I Germany.

"And ultimately, as the country's economy collapsed, they became so desperate, they were willing to elect a little guy with a mustache who began to blame those of Jewish origin, leading to the worst holocaust in the history of mankind," Gohmert said. "What opened the door for this barbarian to take over such a proud country and lead them into this unthinkable, horrible crime against humanity?"

The congressman continued: "Over six million Jewish people were killed, exterminated. Economic problems, spending too much, owing too much, trying to print money to make it up didn't work, so they got desperate."

While certainly an extreme reach back into history, the Texas lawmaker is familiar with predicting apocalyptic circumstances for legislation he disagrees with.

According to Gohmert, the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" was going to threaten America's very existence, while the passage of a 2009 hate crimes bill was supposed to lead to the legalization of necrophilia, pedophilia, bestiality and perhaps even Naziism.

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Comments

[MarieB]

11:47 PM on 03/13/2011

He's clearly pointing his finger at Obama, but what he fails to realize is that three fingers are pointing directly back at himself...exactly where they should be pointing. Republicans have never owned up to the financial disaster that they caused between 2000-2008. President Obama literally saved this country from a near depression because of their foolish spending and now that the economy is finally starting to turn the corner, they want control again. When a party spends two and a half years doing absolutely nothing but sabotaging and obstructing to make sure the president is a one term president rather than repairing their own damage and getting this country back on it's feet again, all the finger pointing should be at themselves.

[ZeraLee]

11:03 PM on 03/13/2011

Rep. Gomer left out a few things in his rush to rant. Like that the German economy collapsed because the Treaty of Versailles whittled down the size of the country while imposing crushing reparations. Or that Germans have greater respect for authority and rules than we do.

The resistance to the social engineering of conservatives shows just how much we love our independence and personal liberty.

It is also important to note that the republicans are defending the authors of our recession

[Meils]

10:34 PM on 03/13/2011

Let me see, what political party targets minority and disenfranchised groups of people for political gain each and every election.... oh, ya right, it it the Republican Party and the Conservative base that bottom feeds off of it... no need to even draw further conclusions for things this obvious!

[Democrab]

10:27 PM on 03/13/2011

This guy is so embarassing to Texans. He's not from my district, but he's from my state and I would like people to know there are a lot of good democrats in Texas. There are also a lot of crazy wingnuts like Gohmert, but he's the most visible lately.

[lm945]

10:14 PM on 03/13/2011

If Gohmert is genuinely concerned about history repeating itself, why doesn't do anything about his good buddy, Peter King? King is the one he!! bent on blaming one group of people for all this country's problems.

[Matt12]

10:10 PM on 03/13/2011

The GOP with its war mongering agenda got this cuntry into two very expensive wars. Why not look for a solution out and get the deficit in order. BTW, some people are pushing the President to get the US involved in Libya

[azsavage]

09:20 PM on 03/13/2011

No Louie, we are not in the exact same position as Germany after World War I. We have not had our country devastated by war; We have not lost nearly all production capabilities; We have not had over 2 million soldiers killed and we still have a military; And no one is saying that the occupying troops will only be withdrawn if we pay for the cost of the war on threat of invasion. Louie, you wrong this is not the beginning of the end, but keep trying you are bound to be right someday.

[MyrtleJune]

09:15 PM on 03/13/2011

All this RAILING AGAINST DEBT really might have been considered more seriously had these gopbagger done it between 2001 and 2008. Now, all they say just rings so hollow because they're not starting with recinding the tax welfare system to upper richest and the corporations who all pay nothing and do nothing FOR THIS COUNTRY.

Where were these idjits during the bush years when they were reducing revenue and stealing the tresury blind? I know.... getting their own piece of that action.

[irisisland]

08:51 PM on 03/13/2011

The Germans had to repay the debt of WWI to the allied powers, that is why they could not recover and went into hyper-inflation. It was only when they defaulted on their payments that they were finally able to recover.

This guy is studying history from Professor Glenn Beck!!!

[adoantarel]

08:16 PM on 03/13/2011

I think Gomer might actually have a point. As the economy is going south in this country, the scared populace is willing to elect people who want to rally the troops with second amendment solutions, blame the ills of the country on teachers and gays, and invade other countries.

We need to remember this when the next elections come around.

[DeanAdams]

07:37 PM on 03/13/2011

Gohmert has a sign over his office door that says Work Will Make You Free

[irisisland]

08:52 PM on 03/13/2011

Yes! the entry into Auschwitz! Good for you to point that out.

[GOPBulletsForJesusAndOil]

07:27 PM on 03/13/2011

Another clueless, tacky republican opening the pie hole.

If he wanted to allude to Nazi Germany, how about the republican use of "Shock Doctrine" to scare people into going along with whatever they want.

[southernman]

06:27 PM on 03/13/2011

Goober Gohmert at his best.

[Political Piggy]

06:19 PM on 03/13/2011

Well, Mr.Gohmert - you really don't even have the basis for Hitler's rise to the top in Germany correct. Economics are a big, big strecth in the way you describe them. The proximate economic cause (which was not the only factor, but the last straw as it were) was the Great Depression, which your party nearly caused a repeat of a couple of short years ago. The real causes are anchored in German nationalism and their despair and anger over losing WW I and how they were treated in the aftermath.

[irisisland]

08:58 PM on 03/13/2011

Basically, I think, that the allies wanted to destroy Germany after WWI therefore creating an outlandish payment, which almost worked until the Germans began to default.

Our debt is solely created by tax cuts to the wealthy...no comparison between our economy (present or past) and that of post WWI Germany.

[Thisboy]

05:49 PM on 03/13/2011

Heck Gohmert. They are already they already elected a bunch of know nothing teabaggers to Congress and are indicating they would re-elect the same Repub Party that got us into this mess because they are scared and impatient..