Senate 'is in crisis,' says Orrin Hatch in farewell remarks
Source: Marketwatch
Sen. Orrin Hatch offered a dire assessment of the upper chamber of Congress, as the retiring Utah Republican made his farewell remarks Wednesday.
The 84-year-old lawmaker, who will be replaced by Mitt Romney, delivered the following zinger on the Senate floor:
All the evidence points to an unsettling truth: The Senate as an institution is in crisis or at least may be in crisis. The committee process lies in shambles, regular order is a relic of the past, and compromise once the guiding credo of this great institution is now synonymous with surrender.
Sen. Orrin Hatch
...snip...
Since I first came to the Senate in 1978 1977, rather the culture of this place has shifted fundamentally, and not for the better, in my opinion, Hatch added on Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-is-in-crisis-says-orrin-hatch-in-farewell-remarks-2018-12-12
From one of the lowest snakes ... never afraid of crawling into the sewer ...
I hope he rots
George II
(67,782 posts)still_one
(92,108 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)personal gain, then it is a problem and ONLY then.
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,656 posts)a kennedy
(29,642 posts)in the last say 6 years!!!!!! Good riddance.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)Romney is a proven liar. totally self centered caring only for power and money. Anyone who would tie their dog to the roof of their car for long distance travel is lacking in empathy and judgment. Benen even felt the need to run a piece called Mitt's Mendacity for all the lies...and now he's appointed to the senate. Somebody got bribed.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)knightmaar
(748 posts)Sitting there on the Jedi Council, lamenting how all the Jedi turned into assholes.
Yeah, Orin, listen.
You've been there since 1978?
You watched this happen?
You let it happen?
Dumbass.
I like how he distances himself: "the culture of this place has shifted" instead of "we shifted the culture of this place".
The buck stops nowhere when you use the passive voice.
KPN
(15,641 posts)karynnj
(59,500 posts)Kennedy and Hatch were friendly and Kennedy knew that Hatch detested tobacco. So, in 1997, when Kennedy sought a Republican to help him get SCHIP, which was based on a Massachusetts program that used tobacco fines to pay for kid's health care. Kennedy had worked with Kerry in 1996 to create a national program that would have done this, but it could never have passed without a strong Republican push to get the small number of additional votes needed.
Hatch was able to get those votes -- and he made substanitive changes to the program to allow each state to design their own program or to even not participate. (Even with money coming to the state for this, several states including Texas opted not to participate.)
I agree that at least by 2009, when he was included in the Finance committee's attempt to make the ACA bipartisan, he was absolutely unwilling to compromise .. or even buy into things he would once have had sponsored. Though the Republicans have lied for years that the Republicans were shut out - Baucus spent about 4 months working with a bipartisan sub group of the Finance committee. (He was a cosponsor of the bill that John Chaffee proposed in 1993, that is often referred to as "Bob Dole's" bill and compared to ACA - though ACA is far broader. Heart bill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Reform_Today_Act_of_1993 (If you click on S 1770 in the first line, the 20 cosponsors can be found and include Hatch.)
His outrageous praise of Trump will forever color what was a long term career where he often did compromise.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Sactomonous jackass
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)he doesn't care if the President paid hush money to his mistresses while his wife was having his child.
sinkingfeeling
(51,443 posts)hlthe2b
(102,188 posts)May he rot...
BadGimp
(4,012 posts)Pretty disgusting imo.
47of74
(18,470 posts)You did this so you can fornicating well live with this you piece of crap.
Taraman
(373 posts)He's one cold piece of work. Secret handshakes won't be enough for him when he dies.
usaf-vet
(6,178 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 13, 2018, 08:10 AM - Edit history (1)
It a job to end all job. The last two missionaries were so impressed they didn't come home.
In fact they haven't been heard from since day one. Perfect spot for Orin. Please take the posting see how they like your BS. Let us know how it went OR not!
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)They were so happy to see the last christian missionary zealot who approached their island.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)once he was elected. I think Trump is a much better person today than he was then. I think most people in this country realize that Donald Trump comes from a different world. He comes from New York City, he comes from a slam-bang, difficult world. It is amazing he is as good as he is.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/orrin-hatch-thinks-its-amazing-donald-trump-is-as-virtuous-as-he-is-because-new-york-2018-08-26
Oh and how about giving Merrick Garland a vote before you go Orrin!
Just a Weirdo
(488 posts)and Kolob has exploded. Orrin will have a miserable retirement.
ProfessorGAC
(64,951 posts). . .or the other Mormons, but Kolob got hit by a gamma ray burst and was incinerated 25,000 years ago.
They just don't know it yet.
RockRaven
(14,950 posts)a GOP POTUS. That's the f--king crisis the Senate is in, you piece of human garbage. F--k off!
Taraman
(373 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,262 posts)He will be just as bad as the rest of them if not worse.
RAB910
(3,494 posts)Mr. Sparkle
(2,930 posts)He did to the senate what Newt Gingrich did to the house.
Maven
(10,533 posts)Racerdog1
(808 posts)Not sure how you made it to 84. Hope you don't see 85 asshole'
mountain grammy
(26,605 posts)And getthefuckouttahere...
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)He is CREEPY to the core.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)You and your KGOP republican cronies pissed all over America's Senate. You are are responsible.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)He hopes for people to think about this speech when they think of him and to forget that until a week ago he was part of the problem, and may continue to be part of the problem if the Senate has any work left in the next two weeks.
What a farce this man is, what a hack, and he will go to his grave thinking that he was of great service to the country, republicans have this quality of not recognizing the piece of crap they are, of selective memory and forgetting all the damage they have caused.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It used to be the House was more partisan and compromises were engineered in the Senate. Thanks to years of GOP control the Senate is now a partisan cesspool just like the House under GOP control. The silver lining is once the GOP loses control of the Senate, they aren't ever likely to get it back without significant changes to their ideology. Someday soon the worm is going to turn and the GOP is going to find themselves on the outside looking in with no way to have any influence whatsoever thanks to the many rule changes they initiated.
Marthe48
(16,926 posts)comfort your flaccid old body with lascivious thoughts of lewinsky and palin
muntrv
(14,505 posts)SergeStorms
(19,190 posts)and the almighty Orrin said this country couldn't abide that. The hypocritical Hatch was shouting "impeach" from the roof-tops. Now we have a "president" who stole his way into office by conspiring with a foreign enemy, who's thumbed his nose at the emoluments clause every second of every day, whose committed campaign finance felonies, and obstructed justice so many times we've lost count...... And the almighty Orrin "just doesn't care". Well fuck you, Orrin. I hope you die a slow, painful death, and that you're awake and aware of every searing second of it. Oh, and did I mention, FUCK YOU, ORRIN!
Bengus81
(6,930 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,093 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,984 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)🖕🏻 and rotate on it!
Dorn
(523 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,293 posts)and them complains about slow roads.
I reminded of the Emo Philips line:
My sister married a German. Which I admit is not the most efficient way to get back at them. I'm at a deli with her husband. He says, "Emo, I can't get a good bagel back in Germany!" I said, "well, whose fault is that?"
Ponietz
(2,955 posts)Cry me a river, you demented asshole.
Javaman
(62,507 posts)hatch tries to go with a mic drop but instead comes off as a confused idiot not knowing who to hand the mic to next.
marble falls
(57,055 posts)ZeroSomeBrains
(638 posts)Everything you bemoan you have helped create. I'll do the same thing you did to the rape victums at the elevator.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)and run. Woohoohoo...
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)Everything the GOP touches becomes ROTTEN. The person may have always been rotten but it was hard to see among so many evil republicans. These people are touched by nixon, reagan, bush I & II who promoted lying, cheating, and stealing.......
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I never want to see you again!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Im sure god is fooled!
Or whoever the Mormon creator is.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Asshole.
LiberalFighter
(50,825 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)FakeNoose
(32,610 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)How unreflective of him to accuse others of what he is, himself. These egotistical politicians have no insight into themselves.
hibbing
(10,095 posts)pecosbob
(7,534 posts)could rule the world without all the drama and legal exposure...he's going back to Utah where he can act like a true despot and people will bow and scrape before him.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)But it will fall on deaf ears. Too much dirty money on his hands for disinfectant to cleanse.
bdamomma
(63,810 posts)you and your ilk are the biggest hypocrites I thought he said he didn't care about the crimes that were/are and still being committed by this filthy regime.
Jerk.
Initech
(100,054 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)better than newt Gingrich attempts...they both destroyed the process.
Sneederbunk
(14,286 posts)PJMcK
(22,022 posts)Fuck you, you cretin.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)He was more than willing to partake in the rape and pillaging of our nation for over 40 years and now he wags his finger.
Orrin Hatch I hope you rot in hell.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Texin
(2,594 posts)Seriously. He flat out stated he really didn't care that Cheetolini is a traitor to the country in addition to breaking the law by paying off his former mistresses to keep their mouths shut, while simultaneously taking illegal campaign money. It's this look-the-other-way approach to everything that's been happening over the past six years that broke the goddamned senate to begin with! If the senate is in "crisis" it exactly because of the actions/inactions of McConnell and others just like Hatch and Graham. Damn them all!
Mira
(22,380 posts)where his effin' neck is.
(in the tradition of the Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Many in the Senate are loathsome, he is up there with them, all but leading the pack
Azathoth
(4,607 posts)Wow.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,837 posts)Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
usaf-vet
(6,178 posts)Boy what a nerve as one of the, once an adult, in the room he could have made a difference and kept the senate as a collegial body. But oh NO he had to become a Trump a$$ kisser.
He can begone quick enough as far as I'm concerned.
A$$!
dlk
(11,537 posts)Only someone with an oversized blind spot and even larger ego would make comments such as his. Good riddance!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)back in the 1990s, Orrin Hatch derided Clinton and called terrorism a "phony threat"
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)You have become a complete and total disgrace to our nation.
turbinetree
(24,688 posts)he will also get health care.....................and to top it all off................you have now confirmed two fucking judges that are sitting on the bench that attacked woman, and the best one of all, you fucker was putting a judge on the bench, and violating the Constitution and the RULE of LAW to advise and consent a nominee to the court.............................but you, fucker, marched lock step with the fucking a libertarian Koch backed Federalist Society to place non -qualified assholes on the bench......................
JUST FUCK YOU..................and that FUCKING Horse you ride..........you asshole caused this shit along with your other fucking traitors called the republican party ....................ever since Watergate......................
I feel so much better....................
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)👍🏼👍🏼
turbinetree
(24,688 posts)Hassler
(3,370 posts)Then he can STFU.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)Ztolkins
(429 posts)he didn't care that Trump broke the law?
Fuck him.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)as elder statesmen.
I am sure that Anita Hill and Christine Blasé Ford would also be inclined to ask "how low can you go?"
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)SergeStorms
(19,190 posts)You helped create that change, and you stood quietly by while the Tea Baggers took over your party and weaponized your majority in the Senate. You have a very short memory, Orrin.
I hope you get extremely ill, very soon. I also hope that every minute remaining in your immoral, judgmental, miserable existence is filled with almighty pain, and that you're awake and aware for every second of it. Fuck you, Orrin.
Scruffy1
(3,254 posts)the comments are nearly unanimous and it could be DU. Utah is just another state with a strong rural urban divide.