Some more BP escrow fund apologetics on the House floor by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert:

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Gohmert: There’s a brilliant man, named Thomas Sowell, and, uh, I didn’t vote for Barack Obama in 2008, but I sure would have voted for Thomas Sowell. Umm, this man, well, his article says quite a lot. His editorial, ummm, says here, and it’s just been posted this week, but uh, he says, “when Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s,” and I’m quoting from Thomas Sowell in his editorial, “leading up to his taking power in the 1930s he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. Such people were a valuable addition to his political base since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler’s rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions. Useful idiots was supposedly the term coined by V. I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.”

And this isn’t in the article, this is my comment, we have, we do have useful idiots today who are heard to say, “Wow! What we really need is for the president to be a dictator for a little while.” They know not what they say.

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Gohmert: Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a President has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whom ever he deems worthy of compensation. No where.

From David Weigel.

Sketchy Obama / Sowell juxtaposition - check.
Hitler reference - check.
Lenin reference - check.