Hitler Obviously Had Better Hair.

Today, someone compared Bush to Hitler. Of course, certain people have been doing that for almost half a decade now, so the statement itself isn't all that shocking. What might be a little more shocking is the fact that the man making the dubious comparison wasn't just another marginalized, green-haired nut waving an obscenity-laden sign by the road. It was congressman Keith Ellison, America's very first Muslim member of the House.

[from The Telegraph]
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.

[9/11 was] almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that," Mr Ellison said. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."

To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because "you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you".

Vice-President Dick Cheney's stance of refusing to answer some questions from Congress was "the very definition of totalitarianism, authoritarianism and dictatorship", he added.

Okay, so...

(1) Bush is a Hitler-esque dictator.

and yet...

(2) He lets members of congress openly label him as such.

Bush is the nicest evil dictator ever.