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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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Isn't Orrin Hatch the representative who invited himself to a Tea Party Express town hall meeting?
That piece of legislation (let's call it what it is) allowed me to obtain health insurance for my 24 year old daughter who otherwise would not have coverage. It similarly allows those with preexisting conditions to obtain coverage which again would be denied them. While I'm glad that Mr. Hatch and his brethren in Congress have platinum health coverage, to deny others through no fault of their own even the basic of health coverage through this legislation is mean spirited and un-American. Perhaps Mr. Hatch can do some praying for the 50+ million who do not have health insurance. Fortunately that number will be significantly reduced because of the new health care reform law and the courageous legislators who voted for it. We need statesmen in Congress, not bellyachers.
The Republicans know how to campaign and use scare tactics but they NEVER have a plan nor do they know how to govern.
Just because you don't choose to listen or don't agree with it, doesn't mean that the republicans don't 'have a plan'.
Actually, the 'plan' is to get government out of the way and back into the role it was meant to be - subservient and answerable to the taxpayers.
This back-and-forth between Dems/Reps is all a show. Both sides wanted to provide guaranteed participation at whatever rates asked by health insurance and pharmaceutical companies. They made a big noise about the bill in order to blind the US taxpayers to the fact that they were engineering a massive "gimme" as payback.
Given the level of regulation and price skewing already put in place by government (IE Medicaid, Medicare which underpay thus forcing non-participants to pay extra to make up the difference to keep things running), the only way to get health care costs under control is to go to a single payer system. BUT nobody should use it for free, all should contribute, and there should be no waivers.
Tell me again about the cost of health care for our citizens.
The need to cut social safety nets becomes apparent after this read.
$3,175 million to Israel, $1,550 million to Egypt and 3,884 million to other various nations was spent in 2010 by our State department
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/us-foreign-aid.htm
Estimates for 2011 military budgets is 2.3 trillion
http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending#USMilitarySpending
The Republican plan kill the middle class
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Said the man who can actually afford health care.
How can you value anything that Hatch says. He has been receiving subsidized health insurance for years and is guaranteed a pension for life. I guess he feels that only he has the right to have health insurance and the American people do not. All he has to do if his insurance goes up, is get additional funding from the lobbyists he represents.
Orin Hatch is a piece of crap. This is just more teabagger forced fear mongering and pandering to the draconian Right Wing notion that healthcare should be bartered like any other capitalist commodity and screw anybody that gets left out. Obama's problem now is that he has tried to compromise with the healthcare industry and they turned right around and stabbed him in the back as they crawled back into bed with the no-neck Right.
Wow, impressively limber for a man of his advanced experience! One would think that Hatch was far too old to bend over like that.
""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.""
Is that why Governor Walker of Wisconsin budget repair bill allows him to sell million dollar taxpayer built power plants without any bids? Yep, the Tea Party Governor can sell them for a penny to anyone without any objection from taxpayers.
It will be interesting watching what happens as more Americans realize most of the Tea Party support was bought and paid for by billionaires and lobbyists.
yep and the dems were bought by unions what is your point.
Where are the Republican plans for creating jobs?....crickets....crickets...Where are the Republicans plans to provide Medical Insurance for those who can't afford it and their plan for reducing the ever climbing cost of health care?...crickets....crickets...all the Republicans are good for is destroying the middle class and helping line the pockets of big corporations..
Government doesn't 'create' jobs - or aren't you bright enough to figure that out?
However, excessive regulation and taxes can and do limit job growth. These are just some of the reasons jobs continue to move out of the US.
And yet more jobs were created in 2010 than from 2001-2008. See here for the bikini graph: http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/08/its-official-more-private-sector-jobs-created-in-2010-than-during-entire-bush-years/
BS Detector
Not mine. I was just borrowed the words right out of Orrin Hatch's toilet mouth (wearing rubber gloves while doing it).
Propositional Calculus: Politican Calculation?
A=HealthCare
B=Crap
C=Spending
D=Deficits
Orrin Hatch says that if A relates to B as C relates to D?
Makes perfect sense if A+B has something to do with C+D. But what if A+B did not relate to C+D.
Then we must conclude that Orrin Hatch is political and running for office.
And we must also conclude that Orrin Hatch has no real solutions to any of those problems.
Therefore is there any reason to vote for him again?
Having been around that long he must be very smart.
If something makes sense then vote for it, is something makes no sense vote against it.
If you are given no plan it cannot be evaluated to see it makes sense or to see if makes no sense.
That plan is called the "no there, there plan".
"I agree with the Tea Party people,”
It amazing how our politicans will say anything or side with anyone to be re-elected. I think we need term limits because governing shouldn't be a full-time, career job so that our politicians will do whatever to keep the money and power.
Between now and the time that Hatch runs for re-election, he will agree with EVRYTHING the Tea Party says regardless of what it is. He has no opinion unless its provided to him.
Gotta love Senators like Scott Brown how have a brain and don't act as if they are bought and paid for -OR- available for sale.
Sad stuff.
Was there a time when men had backbones? I can't remember if it was ever so...
I agree with Hatch but not because i think he's smart. He's as classic a modern lying piece of sh_t Republican as you'll find. I just think it would have served us all better to have Medicare for everyone. Isn't good health one of our personal and national greatest treasures?
I think the most important problem with the USA is debt. If he is supporting cuts and less spending, I support him even if he is only trying to save his back side as so many of you are saying. I am for every cut a repub. wants and most taxes that Libs want. for every two dollars we cut in spending, I will support a dollar increase in taxes.
Fixing the debt is going to take hard, bad tasting medicine. Guess what folks, the middle class will take the biggest hit. It always does. If you raise taxes on the rich. They stop buying as much as before and the person making "things" the rich buy will lose their jobs. Cut Gov't spending and what ever the gov't was buying they buy less of and the middle class people will lose their jobs.
Reduce Social Security payments and again, they buy less and the middle class lose jobs.
Repubs and dems can not solve the problem alone as each only want to address the job from one side -- all cuts or all taxes, neither by themselves will solve the problem.
So is our non-existent energy policy. So is our entire government that can't fight their way out of a paper bag. So was the "stimulus." So is political correctness.
For 2 years, everyone yelled that Obama needed to focus on jobs and he should stop working on health care.
Now Walker is saying he will have to cut jobs because of the cost of health care and pensions.
No argument on pensions especially the 4, 6 and 20 year full pensions for politicians, cops, firefighters.
But health care...is Walker, a TP conservative Repulican, saying that health care is about jobs?
It must be very difficult for Orrin to be experiencing his downhill slide into political oblivion.
The people of Utah must be so proud. Such lack of sophistication in their elected official.
This from the toilet master himself.
These clowns crack me up they want everybody but the wealthy to suffer,give up their well being, give up their good paying jobs .I never in my life seen bigger pieces of @!$%# with mouths
Well, at least we didn't need any political doubletalk to see just how low his opinion of it goes. I consider this effective communication, if at least the quote is complete, and as long as he didn't suggest it would open the seven seals and let the Horsemen of the Apocalypse run wild.
@!$%# the united states goverment its time for a revolution and the sooner the @!$%#in better!!!!! Rise and revolt and throw these dumb mother @!$%#ers out of office and take america back
Right. It's just crap to not let insurance companies turn you down for pre-existing conditions or to cancel your policy just when you need it in the middle of life-saving treatments. Not to mention having health care you can buy into when you're not covered by your job.
Medicare for All is the goal, but this is a good start.
Now Hatch is a tea bagger I bet Joseph Smith is turning over in his grave, hatch sold his soul for his job and to think the working people only had to sell their dignity and pride for a job.
Not half as awful a piece that YOU are Orrin!