Republican Psychopaths

Florida's Rick Scott, Michigan's Dan Snyder, Ohio's John Kasich, Arizona's Jan Brewer...America's GOP governors are a crackpot lot of soulless disasters.  But one of the batch has emerged as the new king of the psychopaths:  Maine's Paul LePage.  Steve Benen at Maddowblog:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) raised eyebrows last week when he called the IRS "the new Gestapo." Soon after, he issued a statement saying "the use of the word Gestapo has clouded my message," but in person, the governor didn't sound especially apologetic.

And on Thursday, LePage went right back to the same comfortable insanity in an campaign appearance for Vermont GOP gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock.

Standing by Brock's side at the Sheraton in South Burlington, the Maine governor said, "What I am trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and, frankly, I would never want to see that repeated. Maybe the IRS is not quite as bad -- yet."

LePage then said, "They're headed in that direction."

Asked if he had a sense of what the Gestapo did during the second world war, LePage said, "Yeah, they killed a lot of people." Asked whether the IRS "was headed in the direction of killing a lot of people," LePage answered: "Yeah."

But both sides do it because somebody said Bush was like Hitler once, so LePage is not as bad.  IRS will kill everyone you know because a Democrat is in charge.  When a Republican is in charge, how dare you question us.