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“As I said before, clearly…”
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Hatch is the one twisting words and accusing others of doing the same with his own statements. Go figure!!
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Hatch has been a lying hypocritical partisan hack for as long as I can remember. And just for the record, lest anyone not know exactly what a crock this case is, here’s the definitive demolition of King using just the text of the law itself (nicely supplemented with a few choice quotes from Scalia):
Holding my breath that Roberts ultimately won’t want to be responsible for the tanking of the insurance industry, or to see his name go down in history as the hack Chief Justice who signed off on such a transparently bogus argument. (He certainly won’t consider the human suffering he’d be responsible for – that consideration doesn’t enter into the right’s oh-so-scrupulously strict judicial umpiring – but corporate suffering is another story.)
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One would think that this old racist would finally be struck,mid sentence, with the realization that he is fighting the old fight but it’s against a guy who gained, through no chicanery or favoritism, the editorship of the Harvard Law Review and is now the President of the United States and think, " Oh shit…I guess it’s too late for this crap anymore."
This ain’t 'bout no ACA, this is about Orin Hatch living in grandpa’s time.
How will McConell explain it to Kentucky if their now,much loved health care is repealed by his party?
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He’s pulling a Newt Gingrich – as in “Any ad that quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.” But hey, Orrin Hatch was the king of the flip-flop long before Gingrich or Romney.
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How will McConell explain it to Kentucky if their now,much loved health care is repealed by his party?
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McConnell won’t need to explain anything. He has 5+ years before he has to be answering to the voters in KY for anything and he KNOWS it!
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And to think that Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch used to have a great deal of respect for one another.
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TPM:
Hatch devoted a significant portion of his speech Monday to countering the suggestions that he — like other top congressional Republicans and state officials — interpreted the law to provide subsidies to Americans regardless of where they lived.
So Hatch is accusing people of taking what he wrote out of context and making it mean something that no one ever thought it meant at the time it was written?
Wow, that’s exactly what Republicans are doing to the ACA! There’s a word for that, a word for accusing someone of what you’re doing to them to deflect criticism - I know there is.
It’s on the tip of my tongue … per … no, pro … pro… protec… no, projec… PROJECTION!
YES, there it is! I knew it would come to me if I just kept trying hard enough.
You know, I’m beginning to think the definition for Republican should show a picture of a projector underneath it.
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Kentucky would keep Kynect and McConnell knows it, the lying sack of liquid poo.
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Swing 'n sway Orrin’s way…
We may be in the interesting position of watching the right wing destroy the country in real time.
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This is certainly not the first time Hatch has backtracked or blatantly lied about something he said.
btw…absolutely LOVED the picture of Grassley in the background…he looks like he couldn’t believe how big a lie Hatch was saying…
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Somehow, he supports King with its twisted interpretation, arguing that the omission of two words in one place implies an incentive that is never stated explicitly, but says taking his words at face value is twisting them. Yeah.
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Different issues, different analysis. Same old bullshit, however.
Maybe he had to see it in practice for a few years to see how it would work.
If a Republican is talking, he’s lying… It’s pathetic to watch.
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Wait a minute. It was announced that the Feds would set up exchanges for states that didn’t have their own about 4 years ago. It was announced that the federal exchange would calculate subsidies, which it has been doing for well over a year now. Yet Senator Hatch decided to let this supposedly blatantly illegal state of affairs continue until today without any comment or call for Senate hearings? He’s saying he only figured this out when 4 nobodies filed a lawsuit? Is he serious?
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It’s very obvious that everyone-- EVERYONE- interned the Obamacare subsidies to apply to all exchanges, both state and federal. Does Hatch really think he can propagandize Supreme Court Justices otherwise? Do the Republicans really believe that United States Supreme Court Justices are a bunch of low information Fox news stooges who can be easily fooled by party talking points?
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He’ll tell them Obama took it away from them in an unconstitutional power grab and they’ll buy it.
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