Usually Democrats try to hide their inner fascist, but crisis tends to bring out people's true colors. Jules Witcover of the Baltimore Sun:

In any event, the political risk to Mr. Obama of appearing to be an inept leader cannot be underestimated if he fails to achieve the primary legislative goal to which he devoted his first year in office. He needs to employ whatever means are available to him now to get it, and then to move on to other challenges with enhanced leadership credibility.

Hmmm. Stalinist logic.

Stalin, needing the vast mineral wealth of Siberia to build the Soviet state, simply had citizens sent to Kolymar on any pretense, to be worked to death in the mines. Survivors recount having to bring out one hundred carts of ore per shift on a daily ration of half a herring fish, and a fistful of bread. If they failed, they had to work another shift. If they failed again, they had to work another shift. People didn't make it for a fourth.

The irony is that they wrote letters to St. Stalin, pleading their cause, completely oblivious to the reality that he was the author of their misfortune.

Millions died, but even today, hard-core Leftists continue to admire Stalin, and excuse the slaughter as necessary to create a superpower.

By any means necessary...