You Lose, Senator Byrd

"But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. Historian Alan Bullock writes that Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. ... Bullock writes that `Hitler was prepared to promise anything to get his bill through, with the appearances of legality preserved intact.' And he succeeded."

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, debating on the floor of the Senate a rules change he opposes.

Godwin's Law: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.