On passing health reform, Orrin Hatch is still whining and lying

[ProSense]

HATCH FAILS TO KEEP UP ON CURRENT EVENTS....

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Let me try to explain this in a way even Hatch can understand.

1. Democrats aren't trying to pass health care legislation using the Senate's reconciliation rules. Reconciliation would be used for a budget fix, which is why reconciliation exists.

2. "Sweeping" social legislation has already passed on "a totally partisan vote." If Democrats "get their way"? Democrats already got their way -- health care reform passed the Senate on a 60-to-39 vote in December, with zero GOP votes. Hatch was there; he should probably remember. It was "a totally partisan vote" because Republicans refused to negotiate in good faith, and rejected ideas they claimed to support.

3. Hatch supported reconciliation many times, on legislation large and small, including bills related to health care. His incessant whining on the subject is disingenuous and demonstrably false.

Hatch isn't some rookie; he's been in the Senate nearly as long as I've been alive. And yet, he can't seem to bring himself to even try to tell the truth about the basics, a habit that seems to get him more appearances on national television, instead of fewer.

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[jenmito]

1. On MTP, he used the term "sweeping social legislation" about 100 times,

which E.J. Dionne "corrected" every time. But nobody was able to stop him from telling lie after lie after lie.

[lunatica]

2. Orrin Hatch gets it. He's just earning his payoff

He's a sleazy, slimy, oily, snake in the grass, back-stabbing, smug, dandified, unctuous liar. His masters pay him well.

[annabanana]

3. *same as it ever was*.... The opposition has been reduced to one note.

They have been cranked up to 11 for so long that they are no longer capable of objecting more strenuously.