Rick Santorum (R-Ostensibly PA) tries to outdo Trent Lott for outrageous comment of the day:

What the Democrats are doing is "the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, 'I'm in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It's mine.' This is no more the rule of the senate than it was the rule of the senate before not to filibuster.

This is the same No.3 GOP Senator who recently said this (via Atrios):

"Senator Byrd's inappropriate remarks comparing his Republican colleagues with Nazis are inexcusable," Santorum said in a statement yesterday. "These comments lessen the credibility of the senator and the decorum of the Senate. He should retract his statement and ask for pardon."

Chuck Pennacchio responds:

As an historian of Holocaust-era Germany, I find Rick Santorum's comment to be offensive, divisive, and destructive. Rick Santorum should immediately issue a public apology, and then retreat with conscience to consider the lasting damage he has done to the United States Senate and to the memory of 12 million Holocaust victims. How ironic is it that he would make such an extremist comment comparing Senate Democrats to Adolph Hitler while his own political party seeks to consolidate all governmental power in its own hands? This is embarrassing to all Pennsylvanians. Unfortunately, Rick Santorum's hate-filled and heated rhetoric is completely consistent with the junior Senator's past behavior.