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Oh this is just ridiculous now:

Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said in an interview today that the FBI’s handling of a corruption investigation in Alaska reminds him of the secret police in Nazi Germany.

Craig spoke with The Politico about the decision to search the residence of Sen. Ted Stevens, a fellow Republican who has served in Congress since 1968, as part of a federal investigation into allegations of bribery and other misconduct among politicians in The Last Frontier.

“I think some people say, ‘Ah, but for the grace of god go I,’” the paper quotes Craig as saying. “Especially when you have the allegations, you have the judicial segment of our government, the executive branch, out raiding the homes of senators, that is a very frightening proposition. It is a bit Gestapo-like in its style and tactics.”

In other words, the FBI and the IRS got a judge to agree that there was probable cause that Stevens might have been involved in this bribery scandal, and therefore the lot of them are like Nazis? Hmm, this sounds familiar… Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah, now I remember, Tom DeLay wrote in his book:

“I believe it was Adolf Hitler who first acknowledged that the big lie is more effective than the little lie, because the big lie is so audacious, such an astonishing immorality, that people have a hard time believing anyone would say it if it wasn’t true. You know, the big lie — like the Holocaust never happened or dark-skinned people are less intelligent than light-skinned people. Well, by charging this big lie [that I violated campaign-finance laws in Texas] liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler.”

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