House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is among the Republican leaders who appeared at the "Tea Party" rally Thursday afternoon on Capitol Hill in front of a crowd holding –at least a couple –signs comparing Obama’s health-care plan to the Holocaust. He didn’t talk about that issue Sunday during his appearance at The Jewish Federations of North America, but did sort of address it over the weekend in an interview with Al Hunt on Bloomberg Television.
Hunt asked about comments Rush Limbaugh made back in August comparing Hitler and Obama and saying that Obama’s health-care logo resembled a swastika. Politico reports:
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?” Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
A Cantor spokesman also said that signs at Thursday’s Hill Tea Party showing murdered Jews at Dachau were "inappropriate."
Meanwhile, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) has released a video asking Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.), the sponsor of the rally, for an apology for the signs that appeared in the crowd. "I can’t believe that Congressman Bachmann would stand where she stood and see those images and not have the common deccendy to say ‘I disagree with those images. I think she owes the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust an apology. I’m waiting, we’re all waiting."
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