Sen. Orrin Hatch: If Only The GOP Had 60 Votes, We Could Fix The Country
Via ThinkProgress. The question of the day is, is Orrin Hatch a liar - or simply demented? And if he's demented, should he stay in the Senate? (Obviously, if he's a mere partisan liar, he fits right in.)
Last night, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) delivered an hour-long speech on the Senate floor condemning the Democratic health care reform bill and accusing Democrats of displaying “the arrogance of power” in trying to pass health reform before the holiday recess. Hatch predicted that if Republicans had 60 votes and control of all three branches of government, they would “get this country under control”:
This will become one more example of the arrogance of power being exerted since the Democrats secured a 60-vote majority in the United States Senate and took over the House and the White House. I dream some day of having the Republicans have 60 votes. I’ll tell you one thing, I think we would finally have the total responsibility to get this country under control and I believe we would. But we never come close to that. There are essentially no checks and balances found in Washington today just an arrogance of power with one party ramming through unpopular and devastating proposals on after the other.
Senator Hatch, are you smoking crack? The Republican Party not only had control of the country, y'all got it in exactly the sad state it's in today. Remember the tax cuts for the wealthy that ballooned the deficit? Remember Medicare Part B, which did the same for Medicare?
Remember the weapons of mass destruction, the reason we "had" to invade Iraq?
Under Republican control, we had deregulation, stagnant wages and massive increases in the number of Americans without health insurance.
Maybe it's time you walk over to that medical clinic they have in the Capitol building and ask them to evaluate your memory. Because seriously, either you're losing it ... or you're just another shameless Republican liar.
My reaction to that proposal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8OkWx4E-4&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
He clearly has had a memory breakdown..OR, his insurance bribes got bigger...
The senator from planet Utahramus, one billion light years from reality, really does need to heed Susie's suggestion and take a stroll over to the Congressional Medical Clinic and get checked out...he's gone.
And in six years drove this country into the worst hole it's been in since the Great Depression. And Hatch wants the chance to do it all over again? Indeed, Hatch either was smoking crack, had a convenient memory loss or thinks the nation has collective amnesia. Well, there are those of us who do not forget!!
Under Republican control we went from a record surplus to a record deficit, more and more people fell into poverty, more and more people lost jobs, health care and homes. More Americans died from violent acts of terrorism and unjust wars. We were lucky to come out of Republican control with a country. You want to see a nation go the way of the Soviet Republic? Give Republicans absolute power. Mexico will have to build a way to keep us out.
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I know where I'm retiring. It ain't here.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
You mean even the tire recapping business is feeling the pinch?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Maybe not so much there.
They've been livin that life since tires were invented.
Me, I like the dirt. and the sand.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
They got all three in Florida
And gator rasslin'.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The Falls, the grape vineyards, the friendly people, the health care system. Plus I have friends in our neighbor to the North. Sure I'll miss American football but I learn to enjoy curling.
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I'd prefer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8nKzyr6lXU
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HMbhqPZi-0
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9MduUtc6s&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Did he mean to say that if the Democrats had 60 votes, they could get the country back on track?
And I have seriously hated Sen. Hatch for decades, primarily because of his role in the Iran/Contra hearings.
"Colonel North, could you tell the committee what a fantastically patriotic service you're performing for this country, and just how important the work you do is for preserving our freedom?"
(/paraphrase)
Since then he's been on the wrong side of every issue imaginable. He's low enough to crawl under the belly of a snake wearing a top-hat.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
Actually that's what passed for "balanced" news coverage on boosh in the day, "Is he a saint, or just a patriot?"
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"Is he a saint, or Jesus?"
"Hail Mary, full of grace,
please let the American populace
have the short term memory
equal to but not exceeding
a person with an extreme case
of Korsakov's disease.
Amen"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1x56ahbTLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKTaLaYBB8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"my empty bottle" lol
how are you feeling, btw?
Hail Sarah, full of space.
Your lord is with thee.
Blessed are those, who amongst us who haven't got a clue.
And forgive those amongst us
Who haven't got a clue.
Say 3 hail Zappa's and 3 hail rockin rollas.
eh................
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I'm sure there are at least 60 delusional dupes out there that would vote for the fraudulant and backward party you call the GOP. Now getting those 60 in the Senate---hardy fucking har har, don't make me laugh. Your grandchildren will never see such a thing in their lives let alone you thanks to your massive incompetence. Your party needs a workable plan that involves an extreme makeover, not your psychotic complaining and grumbling.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
What a friggen jag off. Just listening to these lying, cheating, pasty white old bastards is enough to drive one insane, and I mean on both sides of the aisle. No one admits to any failures, and just lies there way out of it and into another few years in "power." Sick people they are.
that they are lying, bed wetting, cry babies.
The country will not be safe until every Republican is sedated and under the care of a mental health professional.
LOL!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
If I sat there and listened to Hatch I would more than Grayson him, I'd probably punch him in his 124 year old face, then spend the next hour with the microphone explaining why I did it in a profanity laced response.
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Oh boo hoo, our dream of a paternalistic and authoritarian Fourth Reich is crumbling.
And Gump---great idea, just make sure you get a You Tube of the event as a reminder to the next jackass that gets out of line.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
But my friends at C&L can come for free. I'm sure it would do better than the Christmas Sweater even giving them away.
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Great idea---and thanks for comping us the tickets.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
you fixed it all right.
i'm all that in a dime sack
"If only we had the House
and if we had the Senate
and the Presidency
and 7/9ths of the Supreme Court
we could overturn Roe v. Wade!"
Uh... please don't pay attention to those solid four years where the GOP had full control of all branches of our government and did nothing.
They would have done something, but those evil libruls were attacking christmas or some shit.
Because they simply enjoy being real class A arseholes.
They love to project like this because they know just how irritating it is.Hatch is perfectly aware that even with all the "power" the Dems now have,they are insisting upon playing by the rules rather than pounding things down the GOP's lying throats like I would dearly love them to do,and as the GOP did without hesitation or remorse or apology to the Dems for 8 long arrogant muscle flexing,fist pumping years.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Well you know, the GOP did such a great job of getting this country in shape during the 6 years they had control of all three branches of government. It's amazing how Barack Obama has been able to make such a huge phenomenal mess in just 11 short months. Truly amazing.
although I have to say it felt more like 10 years.
Yeah it really is something how Obama managed to turn around all that prosperity and huge surplus' and victory in such a short time-all while being slow waltzed into the ditch by those shining knights of democracy the GOP.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
The Democrats have slowed the republican depression. The Democrats have slowed the republican loss of millions of jobs. The Democrats have put a focus to the republican wars for profiteering. The Democrats have accepted and are managing the republican failure to provide for the American common wealth. The Democrats have brought some legitimacy to leadership over riding the republicans lack of ability to manage themselves. Orrin Hatch is just a Pathetic Cultist (lds). It is obvious he and his kind need to be removed.
you're right, it is obvious.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Republicans are cheaters - they have been disqualified - why bother with all the fanfare? give them the boot - right off the hill and don't let them disgrace congress another day. doing anything else is now what's insane.
and forget about the media - they have left the planet. They are facillitating the insanity.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Here's how you do it, you senile old goat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0
The reason the KKK designed pointy hats was to accommodate their pointy pinheads. Damn Orrin is stupid.
All these years that they blocked federal funding to stem cell research could have found a cure for his Alzheimer's. I think he's to far gone now for any hope.
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Get your party 60 mental health professionals as a start to deprogramming and cleansing your dysfunctional cult of insanity and arrogance.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
nuff said.
He has the best health care plan that this country has to offer at a tenth of the price that you or I would pay. You never wondered why politicians like Byrd lives and functions at his age? Or how about Specter? Two bouts with cancer and he's probably in better health than most of us. This is why the GOP is full of a bunch of old men (not that Byrd is a Republican). They get better health care than 98% of Americans and live forever to damn us all.
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McCain, he's had more cancer (growths) on his face than the moon has craters. But he's still alive. Why? Because he's never denied any type of coverage.
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Bush Mk III becomes the POTUS and suddenly there are problems with the country? Puuuleeeeeze...
I've never trusted anyone that doesn't open his mouth when he talks. He's a snake and a bully. He should return and just go right more songs.
His comments are surreal beyond belief.
Who fucked the country up again Orrin? Oh yeah - it was the re-Thuglicans.
Like Bill Cosby once said
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Neither party really represents who they pretend to represent. They represent their employers. The banksters and corporations. I can find little effort on either side to do anything but preserve winner take all predatory capitalism. The average Conservative during this decade didn't get more freedom, outlawed abortion,ending of the welfare state, prosperous or any of the other things that republicans promote. We on the other side have similar problems.....Because, by in large, they don't work for us.
I happen to think a focused discussion on greed and how and when it becomes a harmful thing is imperative in our economic discussions. The right will never touch it though. They will poo poo it ..because it scares them.
Whorrin Hatch, senate prostitute. For sale to the highest bidder. No matter how stupid, no matter how crazy. If you got enough money boy do we have some senators and congress critters for you!
You shove money up their ass and whatever you want comes out of their mouth.
Impress your friends and neighbors by getting old whorrin to say it's a good thing for women working for halliburton to be raped!
Impress your anti abortion friends just shove a quarter of a million dollars up Whorrins ass and get a bill in your honor banning intelligence.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America!
ROFLMAO!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
What fucking planet is this guy living on? The Repiglicans had complete control of the country for the past 8 years and did nothing but screw it all up, from which we will be recovering for many more years. H's clearly out of his mind.
the dictionary's one. See their 2000 election "fixing" for an example.
The wingnuts who have created this fiasco in the healthcare industry and this economy with their so called free market Raygunomic philosophy want to tell us that if we would just listen to them they can tell us how to fix everything. Go to hell Hatch, you old senile liar.
You would have, there Jedidiah, if you hadn't so badly effed up the last 9 years.
The rethugs now can and do say anything they want, whether they believe it or not. The media does not challenge them at all. If a Dem has the audacity to challenge a rethug's remarks, it's because the Dems are being bullies. If no Dem challenges, then it's because the Dems knew they were right otherwise they would have challenged said remarks. There is no winning, no bipartisanship, no nothing with the RW as it currently exists. The Dems are leaning so far right now, I don't really understand why the RW has become such whiny tittybabbies
knows he's a lying sack of shit. Where is the rebuttal?
... Hatch is right! They got their shit done WITHOUT 60 votes. Of course, most of us wouldn't like what the repugs "fixed" but they would get it done.
I'm so pissed at the Democrats lack of unity and leadership to get it done. As it stands now why even vote for them when they won't do what they where elected vote... ALL because of bribery called lobbyist contributions... our country has be bought out.
The U.S. Senate is the most destructive worthless government legislational organization on the planet.
Were it not for lies, they would have nothing to say.
...Democrats actually governing like they have a majority.
Unfortunately, cowardice and capitulation have diluted everything. From what true health care insurance reform could be, to a lack of action on any glbt issues, to the disastrous decision to occupy Afghanistan.
I no longer want Democratic leadership Emanuel-style. I would like the progressives to start getting a lot tougher and effecting some REAL change. Change we can honestly believe in.
Not what's happening now. The current plan is a sure recipe for tossing our majority right out the window.
The republicant war on reality marches on.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Well, at least someone in the Senate recognizes the power of sixty votes.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Maybe the republicants have seen the light and decided that rather than f*ck up the country, they should do something constructive and stop lining their pockets and the pockets of their buddies.
Then again... maybe not.
Sometimes i have to walk away form C+L for a couple/few days because I can't take it any more. Then I come back to this post and I realize I need a few more days off.
(That Glenn Beck Sweater post made me laugh though. I mean laugh out loud. Especially that Joseph Childers at TrueSlant link.)
They don't have a plan and have been asleep these past 8 years.
That's a Double Redundancy.
You get 150 Bonus Points!
But it doesn't equal the best Double Redundancy of all time:
Brainless Republican Asshole.
considering his advanced age and obvious limited mental capacity I'll only mention the best things about him.
hatch is a syphilitic lying sack of shit.
Next time I won't be so kind or politically correct.
Orrin and his band of psychotic plunderer's "fixed" the country real good when they were in control.
If only they had 60 votes, they could have stolen 50% of all wealth from working people instead of just 26%.
I can just see Old pasty asses 60 vote agenda:
1. Cut ALL capitol gains and income taxes to zero. Then triple payroll taxes to make up for it. This will be the main focus of the "patriot's for economic equality" initiative.
2. Give a tax break to corporation's that eliminate health coverage for their employees. This will be called the "fighting socialism initiative."
3. Pass unlimited compensation packages for CEO's. This could easily be offset by capping worker pay at $5.25 an hour; $6.25 an hour if you have a college education. This will be part of the "the skies the limit when achieving the american dream" initiative.
4. Impose the death penalty on anyone who associates with, or tries to form a union. This word (union) shall be stricken from the english language 3 years after the "let workers choose" inititative is passed.
5. Require all judgicial nominees to take an oath of allegiance to the "free-market" globolization is good GOP 1st commandment. This will help to hasten the military induced capitalistic freedom that all exploited 3rd world people are craving. This will be covered in the "corporation's are american's too" initiative.
6. Defund all public education, and make it illegal to hire anyone with expertise or experience in the subject area they teach. This will save education, because the teacher's and their evil union's (this word will be banned in 2014), will no longer be able to "soil" the minds of our innocent youngster's, who are suppose to be getting prepared for a career in occupying 3rd world countries who have valuable natural resources. This will enable us to put god fearing, anti-abortion evangelical high school educated mom's in every classroom, who will also be happy to do their patriotic duty by working for free! This plan would be implemented under NCLB, and be called the "excellent education should be free to everyone" initiative.
7. And finally, round up and execute all the old folks and take back their social security checks. These dollars shall be returned to the governmet, so it can be used to make the top 1% even richer. This legislation will be called the "eliminating economic stress for the eldery" initiative.
What a world to long for. If only Orrin could have his 60-vote dream come true.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Is this Moron think that America is as Stuoid as his Racist, Nazi, Socialist Party of NO.
This Idiot and his party of Anti Americans couldn't find their way out of chambers without a 8 hour block of instruct and a tour guide.
This is one of the Senior Racist and Anti Americans that ALLOWED bin Laden to ESCAPE. They FAILED to hold the SOCIALIZED Financial and Corporations accountable, they FAILED to put AMERICA First, FOREMOST and ALWAYS, This Goose Stepping NAZI who talks in Sound Bytes party first and ABOVE all can't be trusted.
Hey! STUPID you and your Anti American Party of NO, Goose Stepping Financial and Corporate Interests First had this Great Country for EIGHT (8) Long Hard FAILED years, the ONLY thing I would trust you to do is bring on further FAILURE.
Remember you are the Party of NO. Aren't you the MORONS that just inserted a BIll to CUT, and Restrict Medicare, while failing to bring Socialist Wall Street and Corporate America into check. You Anti American Nazi Racist Clown.
I'm sure Senator Hatch believes everything he says. And so in the spirit of the Republican "Contract With America" in the 1990s, they now have their "Suicide Pact With America" set for the 2010s.
What does one expect out of someone who believes in lies and myths.
I thought he was a moron. Thanks for straightening that out.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
FIX THIS COUNTRY?!!! THEY'RE THE REASON IT'S IN THIS SHAPE.
I wish we were ramming stuff down their throats.
Seems I've heard this tune before.
Sure, let's all run out and vote for the party of "sit-on-their-ass and do nothing for more than eight years".
You've got your head up your ass, Orrin.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
I have not only been a student of history but also a witness to a half-century of the rapacious thuggery of the Republican Party. As such, I fully comprehend the Double-Speak / New-Speak dialect and associated colloquialisms you employ to convey your message of utter disdain for working-class Americans and the Rule of Law. With that preface out of the way, I will proceed with my main points:
Firstly, over the course of forty years of various Republican administrations, your Party has already managed to "fix" this country in many ways far in excess of the 69 positions listed in the Kama Sutra. Enough really is enough. Anyway, the lab results are back, and your Party has not only spread the usual gamut of STDs to this country and across the Globe, but you are now hereby informed that your Party is also a carrier of Auto Immune Deficiency disease. You have, in point of fact, doomed this country to certain death.
Secondly, your double entendre "joke" alluding to the process of "fixing", as in the spaying and neutering of pets, was not appreciated, especially in light of the fact that your "mission" of destruction of this country has already been accomplished. All that remains is picking the remaining flesh off the bones of the carcass, like any scavenger species.
Of course, you and the Republican Party you represent are nothing more than an organized band of misogynistic sociopaths, nothing more than parasites in a far less than symbiotic relationship with the body politic host. The sooner your kind spring free from this mortal coil, the better for the rest of us.
Now go fuck yourself, Senator!
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
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