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Subscribe to RSSSen. Orrin Hatch of Utah really doesn’t like the new health care law, and he used some not-so-legislative language to say so last week.
"Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems," said Hatch of the health care reform effort while speaking to a Republican student group at Utah State University on Friday. "It's good to allow them to work out their own problems rather than a one-size-fits-all federal government dumb-ass program. It really is an awful piece of crap."
According to the university’s Utah Statesman newspaper, the mild-mannered Morman lawmaker later apologized for the language, saying he does not swear often and that he would “repent” for using harsh words about an issue about which he is very passionate.
Hatch is up for re-election in 2012 and is likely to face a primary challenge. In his remarks Friday, Hatch aligned himself with the Tea Party – the same conservative activists who ousted Hatch’s former colleague Bob Bennett from the GOP Senate nomination last year – on issues of spending and the deficit.
"I agree with the Tea Party people,” he said. “I think it's about time we reared up in this country and said ‘Enough, we're spending way too much, we're going into debt too far."
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Yes. I took the time to read the bill (after it was signed so that I would know what's in it) and it is a piece of cr#*. The most revealing item that the news does not talk about is the part discussing the government having access to our bank accounts. I did not like that.
Then you obviously did not read the LAW because that is not in there.
hatch your a peice of crap. Your all powerful so you think people will listen to you and your party,well let me tell you to many have already benefited from the health plan so there.
Buck Garcia,
What do you think Barry use to do on the streets of Chicago late at nights?
Hatch could give a damn about what he preaches. He is posturing to save his job come 2012. He's as phony as all the rest who are in it to save their careers. Period, end of sentence!
DUH!!! The ONLY people who DON'T, CAN'T, nor WANT to, see this is the Democrats.
Mr. Hatch,
We went from a deficit of $33 billion upon Clinton's departure from the White House in 2000 to a deficit of $5 trillion in 2008, as Bush left the White House. And between those two dates, you did not utter, so much as a word, regarding concern for this Nation's spending, as the Federal Government went on a spending spree giving tax cuts to Coporations and borrowing cash to fund war upon false pretense. And now, because a member who isn't from your Party resides in the White House, you proclaim we are spending too much??? You are the worst kind of Politician imaginable....one of Political conveniance instead of one for Political truth.....Liar..
Go back to Utah and shut you're mouth........
Orin, when the time came to negotiate on the bill, you joined the say no "crowd".
That's where the crap started- Be a man, (of sorts) and own up.
In 2014 Congress is suppose to have the same health care as those in the bill -bummer man.
You couldn't/wouldn't give the American people same the healthcare you currently enjoy.
Apparently you know YOU are special and the average American is not. Welcome to the real world.
The unions were first in line for a waiver from Obamacare.
Orin Hatch is counting all his money he gets with the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts for 2 years. So to say this Health Care is Crap is NUTS, he accepts the same Health Care, Run by the Government IS THAT CRAP TOO MR. HATCH, THAN REFUSE TO TAKE THAT AS A BENEFIT. Go out and get your own Policy. ( Than you will see what having an illness means when you try to get coverage) Such language from an elected official, even one that is over the Hill is not acceptable. GO GET ANOTHER WAX JOB ON YOUR FACE, IT'S CRACKING LIKE YOUR MIND.)
bluewillowgirl,
You're clueless.....The Unions ( SEIU 1021, UHW, Steelworkers,etc.) have already been making concessions with Government employers the last TWO years lowering their wages 7-10% to assist counties and states with their deficits actually created by the Private Sector (WALL STREET). What has the Private sector volutarily sacrificed the last two years to assist counties and states lower their deficit???? You've got it.......nothing!!!!
case closed..........
One key fact this doofus doesn't get: people move. Between states. And should be able to get the same level of care, uninterrupted.
Spanky,
Unions are not 12% of the work force withnin America like you've eluded to saying.....
It is true that the Unions existence, overall, has decreased over the years due to shrinkage of midlle class skilled labor jobs being outsourced. But not due to unpopularity like you've eluded to inferring. As the jobs have been outsourced by the Coporate structure with the lost wages for employees, the Union representation for those positions also disappears. Hello???? I can't believe you're not bright enough to understand that simple logic.
Next, Philanthrapist's disguise their political agenda often by donating money to a variety of different causes across the Political spectrum, so as to not divuldge their political goals. But make no mistake about it, the Cocke Brothers Political agenda, dispite their disguised Philanthrapic donations for personal tax right offs, remains embedded within the Conservative Right Wing Ideology.....period.
P.S. try using some common sense once in a while instead of depending on Enquirer type reports for your facts.........
And one more blast at the entitlement program known to all as the HCR act.......
The federal government has no right forcing the public to buy anything, read the Constitution........
This bill/law dose nothing to address the issue of cost!!!!!!! Almost 30 states are contesting it already...
toshola,
or force you to buy auto insurance..............
Auto insurance is.... Big Word here "liability" so the law is if you own a car you have to have liability insurance to pay for the person you cash into......
Health insurance is not "liability", if I get sick, what damage/liability did you suffer??
Next it is the DMV that enforces the auto insurance laws, not the federal government, it is at the state level..
Furthermore by forcing companies to offer coverage to per-existing condition workers, this will drive up the cost of the insurance, drive up the cost of doing business.
The real issue is not about coverage, it is who pays the bill when you go to the hospital/doctor.
"if I get sick, what damage/liability did you suffer??"
If you go to the ER and can't pay, my cost goes up. And if you are chronically ill and can't get treated because you can't afford to be treated, your disability is paid by my taxes. None of us are truly independent of the others in this country; our welfare is interrelated.
That's the whole point, the cost of indigent people, is already baked into the cake!!
So now not only can't these people pay their health care bills, they will be forced to buy insurance they can't afford, and guess who gets to pay the difference..
Not only you are paying for these poor people when you go to the ER, now you are paying for their insurance.....
Thank you liberals........ For one more entitlement program that in no way can pay for it's self, just look at SS, Medicare Medicaid, welfare/food stamps.... all going bankrupt, so why not 1 more for the road..
What will really tell the story is if the waivers are extended, I suspect they will be for the politically connected.
hodaka1974,
No......you read the Constitution, Artcile 1; Section 8 : it clearly states the Federal Government has the right to tax interstate commerce (in this case Insurance companies) for any interstate commerce policies adversely affecting the National economy in terms of bankruptcies to it's citizens. In this case, relief is provided (offerered) to citizens and businesses by tax credits.
The day of citizens/coporations denying insurance policy participation and causing double digit inflation of Insurance policies by proclaiming bankruptcies for avoidance of coverage costs thereby placing the burden squarely upon the tax payer properly covered by Insurance is over.........get over it.
hodaka1974,
And those 30 states you're talking about will lose by SCOTUS decision soon enough......
It's in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution..................
Get help... Tax is not the same thing as forcing the purchase of goods and or services,,,
Have no knowledge of this guy or what he has said or done otherwise but I most certainly agree with what he has been quoted as saying in this article.