Orrin Hatch has always been good for a few lines of tendentious bullshit, but the Bennett teabagging has inspired him to new heights:
HATCH: […] I listen to these folks, I don’t disagree with them. They’re angry for good reasons. I mean, my gosh, these people in Washington are running this country right into the ground. […]
INGRAHAM: But aren’t you part of Washington?
HATCH: Hell no. I’ve never been. I’ve never considered this a job. I’ve had, people have asked me, they said, “say Senator Hatch, don’t you just love being a U.S. senator?” My constant answer is this. No, I don’t love it at all, but I’m good at it.
I’ll give Orrin this: having been in the Senate for 33 years, it’s not a job — it’s a life-long career.
IndieTarheel
Wow. That is some weapons-grade stupidity right there.
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To be topped only by the sheep that will fall for that crap.
Hunter Gathers
Orrin, we hardly knew ye. Enjoy Wingnut Welfare.
TR
Dubya was never a conservative.
McCain was never a maverick.
Hatch was never a senator.
These aren’t the Republicans you’re looking for. Move along.
Keith G
Hatch has always seemed to me to have a rather brittle grasp on his own ego.
He loves to play at being a gregarious good old boy, yet he can flash to a tripwire flamethrower-like anger that seems really prissy in nature.
I chalk it up to his need to wear woman’s undergarments.
The Grand Panjandrum
No, no, no! I do not like it. But, in order to save someone else from eating this perfectly cooked filet mignon I will eat it. I’m always willing to sacrifice for the little people. That’s just how I roll.
middlewest
Being a senator is just a hobby. Hatch’s true vocation is song.
c u n d gulag
“INGRAHAM: But aren’t you part of Washington?”
“HATCH: Hell no. I’ve never been.”
I just play a Senator on TV.
But I did stay at a Ritz Carlton last night!
OY!
Ash Can
When even Laura Fucking Ingraham calls you on your bullshit…
PaulW
Sen. Hatch: he doesn’t like his job. He just LOVES the benefits and perks instead.
SOB should retire: he’s already got the full-term pension plan, don’t he?
debbie
He has seemed shrill for the longest time.
robertdsc
He should get smacked with a baseball bat right between the eyes and told to shut the fuck up.
arguingwithsignposts
I particularly liked the “My gosh” part. What a douche.
DFS
You know a Mormon means it when he breaks out the aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks.
kommrade reproductive vigor
And fellow Singing Senator Larry Craig didn’t like bathroom rendezvous, he was just very good at them.
But as we know, the Magic Power of BISS(TM) (Because I Said So(TM)) has transformed Hatch into the rootinest, tootinest, anti-Washington cow poke to ever polish a chair in the Hart Building.
Bill E Pilgrim
It’s like watching Bugs Bunny try to hide by jumping into the crowd and yelling “Yeah, kill the wabbit!” right along with Elmer Fudd.
Lisa K.
Oh, ffs. Whoever runs against him needs to run this on a loop.
I’ve been there for 33 years, I get paid well for it and I think I’m good at it-but I’m not part of the establishment because I really really hate it!!!
That strains credulity worse than any teabagger rally.
El Cid
I’ve never been an insider, I’ve always been an outsider on the inside. There’s a biiiiiig difference, I’m telling you, as long as it’s in my favor.
middlewest
Balloon Juice commenters are the absolute worst. They are ruining the internet. I’d never post there in a million years.
arguingwithsignposts
we’ve got a ways to go to catch up to /b/.
Bill E Pilgrim
This rebranding yourself as a Tea Partier really is getting out of hand.
Next BP will announce that they dumped oil into the Gulf as a tax protest.
dmsilev
“I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
Sorry Senator, but you’re no Groucho Marx. If you study hard, maybe someday you can be Zeppo.
dms
Mustang Bobby
He saw what happened to Bob Bennett, broke out in assholes, and shit himself to death.
El Cid
@Mustang Bobby:
2nd good laugh of the day, after watching a repeat of the HBO Ricky Gervais show.
Ash Can
@dmsilev: After this stellar performance, he’d do himself a favor by being Harpo.
eemom
@arguingwithsignposts:
he says “my gosh” a lot. Shows what a wide eyed, innocent, babe-in-the-woods he is.
tenkindsofgrumpy
I think this is what, in music, would be called dissonance.
tenkindsofgrumpy
@Bill E Pilgrim: Priceless.
Xecky Gilchrist
I’ll give Orrin this: having been in the Senate for 33 years, it’s not a job—it’s a life-long career.
Not only that, but having been in the Senate for 33 years after running on the slogan “18 years is long enough”, slamming his opponent as a Washington insider for having been in for 3 terms.
Allan
I hate to see people stuck in dead-end jobs they hate.
Please, voters of Utah, stop torturing this poor man! When will you stop nominating him and putting him on ballots against his will?
This seems like a human rights violation to me. Perhaps the UN could step in.
feebog
If, by “these people” he means George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the Boner, Mitch McChinless, and all his Republican buddies on the hill, then yeah…
grandpajohn
Well Orin has to do something to retain his years long title of being the“biggest hypocrite and liar in the senate”
licensed to kill time
I mean, my gosh, it’s like he’s serving a life Senator sentence or something. Reluctantly, painfully, doing his time, but not liking it one little bit, nosiree bob!
Will no one put him out of his misery? Hasn’t the poor man suffered enough?