Hatch apologizes for 'off-color' comment about 'dumbass' ObamaCare supporters

[DonViejo]

BY PETER SULLIVAN - 03/02/18 03:56 PM EST

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Friday apologized for calling supporters of ObamaCare the "the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met."

"Yesterday, I made a poorly worded joke about Obamacare supporters—a joke that was not reflective of my actual feelings towards my friends on the other side," Hatch said in a statement.

Link to tweet

“[We] finally did away with the individual mandate tax that was established under that wonderful bill called ObamaCare,” Hatch said during his remarks. “Now, if you didn’t catch on, I was being very sarcastic. That was the stupidest, dumbass bill that I’ve ever seen.”

“Some of you may have loved it,” he continued. “If you do, you are one of the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met. And there are a lot of them up there on Capitol Hill from time to time.”

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/376492-hatch-apologizes-for-comment-on-dumbass-obamacare-supporters

[madaboutharry]

1. What he really means:

"Sometimes I slip up and say what I really think."

[GWC58]

30. No Senator Hatch! I think thats exactly what you think and

worse, what you truly believe. Have a nice retirement!

[SharonClark]

2. So Hatch can put down an entire segment of the population?

But Dems have to apologize for every little thing they say that the right wing distorts into a scandal?
He's deplorable.

[JDC]

3. Apology not accepted.

F right off Mr Hatch.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. LOL "Yesterday I made a poorly worded joke..."

In plain English, "I was a DUMBASS."

Nice try, Orin, but too little too late.

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Memo to Hatch: it's ONLY a "joke" when you're pretty sure the other

party will easily recognize it as a joke, not an insult.

[tonyt53]

5. How about you just kiss my ass Orrin.

[democratisphere]

6. Damn good thing he is leaving because Orrin, like Mitch and Paul, doesn't

deserve to be in office.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Too late!!!!

We now can see what is really in your "soul" (such as it is).

You are not what you think you are - you've shown us otherwise.

[Laffy Kat]

8. Too late, Asshole.

Everyone knows how you really feel now.
Buh-bye to any future career plans.

[packman]

9. His future is collecting a huge

retirement package from all those years in government

[Laffy Kat]

16. Infuriating.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Hey Orin,

only met you once,you are a total Assface and yesterday confirms it.

[BoneyardDem]

11. y-e-a-h...I think we *got* the joke the first time around.

[kentuck]

12. Senile ol' fart.

[Weed Man]

13. Apology not accepted

Resign Senile Asshole. And take Trump with you to Hell.

[Greybnk48]

14. Two days in the news and Orrin Hatch is still an irrelevant,

religiously insane old fuck-head.

[Skittles]

15. what an asshole

[HopeAgain]

17. Senator Hatch will be sorely missed...

NOT!!!!

[rusty fender]

18. Hatch should be apologizing

For his existence

[Taraman]

19. Orrin is a

Nutcake!

As a Utahn, I can't wait to see the last of him.

[cojoel]

20. I thought it was off-meds comment

I guess I need new glasses

[old guy]

21. Well, so the found his meds.

[gratuitous]

22. "Saw-ree" doesn't really cut it

In fact, it makes it somewhat worse, because his original remarks assumed a great deal of whitewashing of history. To-wit (as I posted yesterday when he made these insulting comments):

Because you and your corporate-enthralled buddies in the Republican party demanded that insurance companies stay in the health care business. Insurance companies don't contribute one positive thing to the delivery of health care, but you and your dollar-addicted cronies had an absolute hissy fit over insurance companies getting cut out of the process.

So, in exchange for leaving insurance companies in the loop, the ACA required that insurance policies had to actually cover something (that basic benefits package, including preventive care and annual check-ups), and that everyone had to participate, even able-bodied invincible young people who never make insurance claims. This was to widen the pool of participants, and lower costs for everyone. Of course, you and your spoiled brat ilk immediately began bad-mouthing the individual mandate you had forced on the bill, and advised young people that it would be cheaper to pay the penalty than to buy insurance that actually covered them.

Then, after all those attempts at sabotage, and holding your breath until you got your way, after all the gathering of testimony, after all the effort to make the ACA serve as many as possible at the lowest cost in spite of your monkey-wrenching of the bill, not a goddam one of you Republicans voted for the final package.

That makes you a cruel, greedy, short-sighted asshole, Orrin.

[SamKnause]

23. Fuck You !!!

It was not intended as a joke.

Fuck you and all the EVIL LYING REPUBLICANS !!!!!

[dalton99a]

24. Fuck you, asshole.

[area51]

25. Hey Hatch,

You need to lose your healthcare, ASSWIPE!

[Awsi Dooger]

26. I used to think Hatch wasn't among the absolute worst Republicans

What a fool I was

[sharedvalues]

27. He has friends? Besides the donors that pay him?

[Beartracks]

28. He only apologized for lack of civility. He still thinks they're dumbasses. n/t

[sprinkleeninow]

29. "We know you are, but what are we?"

You shouldn't speak of yourself in such a deprecating manner. Stupid and a dum bass.

[tavernier]

32. Class

You can’t buy it.

[GoCubsGo]

33. I guess you don't know yourself very well then, eh Urine?

You are the epitome of "stupidest dumbass." What a sack of shit. Even Romney will be an improvement over that assclown.