Orrin Hatch started shooting his mouth off again in his signature way: Try to sound like a soft, accommodating “team player” on the healthcare issue - then tell us how you really think. Here are a few words (USA Today):

“This is too big for political gamesmanship,” says Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a member of the Senate health committee. “The partisan part of me says, ‘Oh, I hope they do that; they’ll have to live with every stinking problem that comes up’ ” in a system passed without significant GOP support.

and a few more:

Mr. Hatch predicted that such an approach would meet the same fate as President Bill Clinton’s plan for universal coverage.

“If the Democrats go ahead with a purely partisan bill,” Mr. Hatch said, “you saw what happened on Hillarycare, and this will be just as bad.”

and lastly:

“If we go to a government plan, the government will be setting prices. They’ll be telling people what they can do. They’ll be injecting themselves between your doctor and yourself,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, calling a public plan “tremendously costly.”

and, so, Orrin Hatch will vote against the bill - but that’s nothing new. This prick would have voted against it anyway. All he’s doing now is providing the “easy out” for himself - and doing so by trying to make Obama and the democrats be the villians here.

None of this would mean anything if Hatch weren’t a flak for the Healthcare insurance lobby.

You see, Hatch makes a shitload of money from the same people Obama is trying to put some controls under. The same folks who charge $50 for a pill that costs them 50¢ to make (even after insurance and money going back into research). He’s got a reason to vote against this bill - but if you listen to his rhetoric it’s as if it’s all our fault the bill won’t get passed.

Fuck him and the horse he road in on.

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