Orrin Hatch, Dean Heller back Jeb Bush

Well that oughtta get him some rousing support!

I know I was holding my breath wondering who Orin Hatch was going to support.

Dear Oren,

May I please have my endorsement of you returned to me?

Sincerely,

Sarah Palin

The ancient, decrepit Empire feebly strikes back.

This may be the best thing on our side. The Globalists are getting so old that they have to wake Henry Kissinger up before he can order the execution of another journalist.

Oh my! What a surprise! /S

Spit.

That piece of crap Heller. He knew about my book on Harry Reid and never did anything.

I’m going to fire off an email to Trump about Hatch...let’s uncover what Hatch is really like...

Hatch is no different than the Washington Cartel, he’s in it for power and money...to hell with what Utah wants...

This ‘committee’ has decided they are moving the State Prison from Draper, and do the tax paying citizens of Utah get to vote on it: NO...but we get to pay the bill for it so the ground between Draper and Lehi can be made into a flowing road of ‘land developers’ to line their pockets with more money and the State Legislators get to have all their favors returned in money in their pockets...

Mark Levin supported Hatch’s reelection against a Tea Party candidate who was trying to get the nomination from Hatch in the primary. I wonder if Levin has changed his mind. Hatch is one of the biggest RINOs of all. We certainly can do better from Utah.

Of course they do.

They are both owned by the Cheap Labor Express.

We must remove from office all those who side with illegal aliens and their employers.

No Trump. No Bush.

What on earth happened to Orrin Hatch? He used to be a bonafide conservative!

I love to hear wide awake citizens like yourself who have figured out what is behind the mealy mouth hypocrisy that has become American politics. Follow the money as they always say because it is always about the money.

This is an old report, but Hatch hasn’t changed a bit...

http://www.slate.com/

Sen. Orrin Hatch

Washington’s conservative activists have found a traitor in their midst, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch. The occasion is Memogate, the internal Senate investigation into whether Republican aides unethically (and perhaps illegally) tapped into Democratic computer files containing private judicial-nomination strategy memos and leaked them to the press. The more the story balloons in the media, embarrassing Republicans and distracting them from trying to confirm more judges, the more right-wing activists savage Hatch, the man they hold responsible for it. To them, the Utah Republican has done something “acutely damaging to the struggle to get conservative judges onto the federal bench,” as one National Review writer put it this week, in a column widely e-mailed among disgusted activists. Another activist ominously warned in the Washington Post of a “thermonuclear” punishment for Hatch. Also in the Post, Gary Bauer fumed over a “demoralized Republican base around the country” and sounded about ready to stage a public hanging on Capitol Hill.

No matter that Hatch has spent the past three years fighting nonstop to confirm George Bush’s judicial nominees. After Hatch declared himself “mortified” by the file-stealing allegations and said he supported a formal investigation, angry GOP activists—who want to downplay down the scandal—accused him of being a weak-kneed appeaser of Democrats. The National Review’s Timothy P. Carney even likened him to Neville Chamberlain.

That’s madness, of course. Under Bush, Hatch has fought bitterly with Democrats over judicial nominations, to the point of shattering an emerging reputation he’d gained for moderation and spoiling some of his old bipartisan friendships. If anything, the real story of Orrin Hatch’s recent career is the way the Bush administration took a senator who had been growing mellower and more independent with age and reduced him to a crude partisan attack dog. Yet even Hatch’s partisanship isn’t enough for the Savonarolas of the right. The right-wing bile over Hatch’s Memogate burst of conscience only shows how frighteningly militant Washington’s church of conservatism has become.

From afar, Hatch’s gentlemanly manner and high collars make him seem like an insufferably dull prig. But by the standards of Congress, he’s a relatively colorful character. He has released nine CDs of his own music—drecky religious and patriotic anthems, but at least he’s trying. Hatch is also a sucker for celebrity. His music Web site features photos of him posing proudly with Barry Manilow and clowning around at a piano with Donnie Osmond. He’s cultivated friendships with athletes like Karl Malone and dedicated a song to his “dear friend” Muhammad Ali. Hatch accepted cameos in HBO’s K Street and Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic (although Hatch, a Mormon bishop, later explained that he was “shocked and dismayed at the gratuitous amount of violence and profanity” in the film). This fascination with fame may explain Hatch’s ill-advised run for president in 2000, during which he presented himself as the experienced alternative to George W. Bush; he dropped out after registering a pathetic 1 percent in the Iowa caucuses.

Hatch was a more one-dimensional figure when he arrived in the senate almost 30 years ago. A fire-and-brimstone values crusader, he introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade and was prone to saying things like, “Democrats are the party of homosexuals.” In his early career, he routinely tallied one of the most conservative Senate voting records. His intensity rankled even his GOP colleagues, one of whom later admitted he thought Hatch was an egomaniac with an irritating “save-the-world complex.”

But that helped him score points in the GOP as a reliable attack dog. During the Iran-Contra hearings, no one defended Oliver North and the Reagan White House more stubbornly. And during Clarence Thomas’s 1991 confirmation battle, no one trashed Anita Hill with more zest. (Among other things, Hatch bizarrely suggested Hill might have lifted her famous tale about pubic hair and Coke from The Exorcist.)

But the institution got to Hatch. He started flashing a softer side. In 1986 he held the first Senate hearing on AIDS, at which he hugged a victim of the disease. He also befriended Sen. Ted Kennedy, whom he’d once deemed “one of the major dangers to the country,” and together they passed a major AIDS bill. That friendship led to more joint efforts over the years, culminating in a 1997 bill that raised $30 billion in tobacco taxes to fund child health care and infuriated Hatch’s Republican colleagues.A year later, Hatch galled conservatives in the midst of President Clinton’s impeachment by saying, “I want to help him, he’s a human being.” Hatch adopted the comradely customs of the Senate with an enthusiasm that irked some GOP colleagues. Throughout the ‘90s, conservatives griped that Hatch was never enthusiastic enough about blocking Clinton’s judicial nominees and was too willing to deal with the enemy. In 1997, überconservative Paul Weyrich hissed to the American Spectator that Hatch “needs psychological help.”

Since Bush took office, however, Hatch has reverted to his old hyper-partisan self. As judiciary chairman, he’s led an unrelenting assault to confirm Bush’s conservative nominees, which included last fall’s 39-hour marathon session that kept senators up all night. These days Hatch is far more likely to be sputtering at Democrats than backslapping them. During last year’s standoff over appellate court nominee Miguel Estrada, for instance, Hatch could’ve been channeling House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as he raged at the “shameful” and “despicable” tactics of the Democrats, who he said were trying to “murder” and “destroy” Estrada. (After one especially colorful outburst, Hatch had to come back and apologize for violating Senate decorum.) Even Hatch’s long friendship with Kennedy is fraying. “You are not going to bully me,” Kennedy snapped at him at a hearing last year. “You are not going to bully me, either,” Hatch shot back.

Democrats now complain that the institutionalist Hatch has resorted to breaking Senate rules to get his way—failing to give them adequate notice before hearings, for example, and ignoring committee debate procedures. Hatch even entertained last year’s radical GOP plan, which was never attempted, to change longstanding Senate rules so that nominees can’t be filibustered.

Hatch has also leveled cheap accusations of bigotry against Democrats. During last year’s nomination fight over Alabama federal court nominee William Pryor Jr., a Catholic, Hatch suggested that the Democrats’ refusal to confirm judges with strong anti-gay and anti-abortion views is tantamount to anti-Catholicism. (That was a hard point to explain to Catholic Democrats like Kennedy, but never mind.) The attack was well-coordinated with outside Republican activists like C. Boyden Gray, whose Committee for Justice attacked Democrats with demagogic television ads featuring a sign that read “Catholics Need Not Apply.”

The Washington cartel wants the government to keep growing and be more corrupt. That means Jeb Bush is the guy.

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They go from now to later....

Just to give you an idea about Hatch:

Trade Act of 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, 2015

Yea3.png On May 22, 2015, the Senate passed HR 1314, which is being used as a legislative vehicle for trade legislation with the titles “Trade Act of 2015” and the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015,” by a vote of 62-37. If the House passes the bill, the president will have trade promotion authority (TPA). TPA, also known as fast track authority, allows the president to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended by Congress. Congress casts a simple up or down vote on a trade agreement, and the legislation only requires a simple majority for approval. The bill is also a statement of trade priorities and includes provisions for trade adjustment assistance. Hatch voted with 47 other Republican senators to approve the bill.[10][11]

Trade promotion authority

Yea3.png On June 24, 2015, by a vote of 60-38, the Senate approved trade promotion authority (TPA) as part of HR 2146 - Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act. Hatch was one of 47 Republicans to vote in favor of the bill. After, Senate Republican leadership honored a pledge to support trade adjustment assistance (TAA) by passing the measure as part of HR 1295 - Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 by voice vote. The House passed HR 1295 the following day, on June 25, 2015, and both TPA and TAA were signed into law on June 29, 2015.[12][13][14]

2016 Budget proposal

Yea3.png On May 5, 2015, the Senate voted to approve SConRes11, a congressional budget proposal for fiscal year 2016, by a vote of 51-48. The non-binding resolution will be used to create 12 appropriations bills to fund the government before funding runs out on October 1, 2015. The vote marked the first time since 2009 that Congress approved a joint budget resolution. All 44 Democrats voted against the resolution. Hatch voted with 50 other Republican senators to approve the bill.[15][16][17]

National security

John Brennan CIA nomination

Yea3.png Hatch voted for the confirmation of John Brennan as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The nomination was confirmed by the Senate on March 7, 2013, with a vote of 63 - 34. Most Democrats supported the nomination, while Republicans were somewhat divided with roughly one-third supporting the nomination.[25]

Drones filibuster

See also: Rand Paul filibuster of John Brennan’s CIA Nomination in March 2013
On March 6, 2013, Senator Rand Paul (R) led a 13-hour filibuster of President Obama’s CIA Director nominee, John Brennan. Paul started the filibuster in order to highlight his concerns about the administration’s drone policies. In particular, Paul said he was concerned about whether a drone could be used to kill an American citizen within the United States border, without any due process involved. Paul and other civil liberties activists criticized President Obama for not offering a clear response to the question. A total of 14 senators joined Paul in the filibuster — 13 Republicans and one Democrat.[26][27][28]

According to the website Breitbart, Hatch was one of 30 Republican senators who did not support the filibuster.[29][30]

The day after the filibuster, Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Paul, responding to the filibuster. Holder wrote, “Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on U.S. soil? The answer to that is no.”[31]

Economy

Farm bill

Yea3.png On February 4, 2014, the Democratic controlled Senate approved the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, H.R. 2642, also known as the Farm Bill.[32] It passed the Senate with a vote of 68-32. The nearly 1,000-page bill reformed and continued various programs of the Department of Agriculture through 2018. The $1 trillion bill expanded crop insurance for farmers by $7 billion over the next decade and created new subsidies for rice and peanut growers that will kick in when prices drop; however, cuts to the food stamp program cut an average of $90 per month for 1.7 million people in 15 states.[33] Hatch joined with 19 other Republican senators in favor of the bill.

Social issues

Violence Against Women (2013)

Nay3.png Hatch voted against S.47 — Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. The bill was passed by the Senate on February 12, 2013, with a vote of 78 - 22. The purpose of the bill was to combat violence against women, from domestic violence to international trafficking in persons. All 22 dissenting votes were cast by Republicans

Tea party challenge

In response to primary challenges from tea party candidates, Hatch said, “These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans. They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”[55]

Mark has said he was duped - I think he’s banned Hatch from calling into his radio show (and cell phone) because of his post re-election track record.

He’s admitted the mistake a bunch of times.

Utah’s Harry Reid...birds of a feather.

Sit down you old criminal.