This weekend in Republicanism

And now for a little Allen West, America's Dumbest Congressman. Now he's upset that media (again) reported (again) that stuff he says (again), specifically:

"What we're doing is we're creating a welfare entitlement class," West told Fox News on Sunday, naming the rising number of Americans on Social Security disability and the poverty roll as well as increase in food stamp recipients and extension of unemployment benefits. 'So once again we are creating the sense of economic dependence which, to me, is a form of modern, 21st-century slavery.'

Got it? Social Security, food stamps and unemployment is like slavery. Except:

West blasted the 'liberal media' for reporting that he equated Social Security and slavery in the comment. West suggested his Facebook followers watch the interview for themselves.

Yeah, he didn't mean it was like slavery, when he was comparing it to slavery. Just that it and slavery were, um, things you could put in the same sentence together. Oh, and ...

'It seems that there is absolutely no level the attack machine will sink to deliberately distort my comments,' he wrote. 'I was clearly talking about the number of people on Social Security disability- a completely separate issue then claims that I said I am against Social Security.'

So it's Social Security disability, not Social Security, that is like slavery. Because, like food stamps and unemployment insurance, keeping people fed is, well, enslaving them.

This has been your daily moment of Allen West, America's Dumbest Congressman. Stay tuned next week, when the Republican will compare giving people health insurance to the acts of Nazi Germany. Wait, what's that? Another Republican already beat him to it?

[Maine Gov. Paul LePage] in his Saturday speech blasted the Supreme Court for upholding the health care law, telling listeners the decision 'has made America less free. We the people have been told there is no choice. You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo ' the I.R.S.'

LePage on Monday issued a statement responding to the criticism, saying that his reference to Nazi Germany's secret police 'clouded' his message on the individual mandate.

'It was not my intent to insult anyone, especially the Jewish Community, or minimize the fact that millions of people were murdered,' LePage said in the statement. 'Clearly, what has happened is that the use of the word Gestapo has clouded my message.'

Ya think?

I swear, could we just have one week go by in which government helping people to get food, jobs or medical care is not comparable to either slavery or the Nazis? Just one? It's early yet, but in terms of overblown rhetoric and Hitler references, I'm beginning to think that this election season will be even worse than the Health Care Reform Summer from Hell.