Right-wing blogger Doug Powers has taken the Drudge bait, pointing to benign comments Rep. Nancy Pelosi made about political extremism to accuse her of embracing “tyranny.”

Citing comments highlighted by Drudge and Fox Nation, Powers wrote:

As the budget negotiations were raging in Washington late last week, Nancy Pelosi ducked out for a mini fleebager road trip to Tufts University. While there, she vented some frustration about Tea Party influence in Washington and expressed her dissatisfaction with the election process when things don't go her way.

Transcript from Mediaite:

“To my Republican friends: take back your party. So that it doesn't matter so much who wins the election, because we have shared values about the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, our security and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors.”

Pelosi then went on to use the words that in some form have preceded many a tyranny throughout history: “Elections shouldn't matter as much as they do.” [MichelleMalkin.com, 4/12/11]

Powers linked to a web post on “Nazi Germany - Dictatorship.” Subtle: Powers is literally linking Pelosi to Nazis.

The full context of Pelosi's remarks makes clear she was not advocating tyranny, but simply pointing out that political extremism can distort the political debate:

But the fact is that elections shouldn't matter as much as they do. There should be someplace on the spectrum where we respect each other's views and all the rest. But when it comes to a place where there doesn't seem to be shared values then that can be problematic for the country, as I think you can see right now. [via Real Clear Politics, 4/8/11]

Doug Powers' Nazi rhetoric actually demonstrates Pelosi's point.