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Sen Bernie Sanders Gives Orrin Hatch a Nice Big Helping of STFU (2009) (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Jun 2015
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(50,983 posts)1. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Thank you, yuiyoshida!
Orrin Hatch came off as exactly what he was, a health insurance employee, a paid professional liar for the corporate interest. One of many!
You're part of that 9% congress approval rate, Hatch!
If we only could have gotten that Public Option. It would have given the insurance industry some competition. Did you ever see such a temper tantrum when the insurance industry was faced with the threat of the Public Option and a few reasonable rules like the pre-existing conditions provision? OMG! They invested millions of dollars to create a fake astro turf outrage industry that eventually morphed into the Tea Party.
That whole health care mess was like nothing I have ever seen in government.
You're part of that 9% congress approval rate, Hatch!
If we only could have gotten that Public Option. It would have given the insurance industry some competition. Did you ever see such a temper tantrum when the insurance industry was faced with the threat of the Public Option and a few reasonable rules like the pre-existing conditions provision? OMG! They invested millions of dollars to create a fake astro turf outrage industry that eventually morphed into the Tea Party.
That whole health care mess was like nothing I have ever seen in government.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)2. $39 trillion?!?
"Hatch" a few more laughable numbers out of your a**, Orin!
(Isn't it sad that they kept using the same tired, disingenuous talking points to oppose a plan for universal health care that the majority of US citizens supported?!? I grow tired of witnessing the steady disintegration of our system of government...)
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)3. Hatch has always made me want to puke.
What a weasel.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)4. K & R
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)5. Hatch, the idiot who wanted to make firewall's illegal. What a super dumb ass!