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Biden mourns Hatch as an ‘American original’
The hill ^ | 04/24/2022 | Brad Dress

Posted on 04/24/2022 11:49:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

President Biden on Sunday mourned Orrin Hatch, calling the late Republican senator from Utah an “American original” who fought to make the country a better place.

Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, died at the age of 88 on Saturday in Salt Lake City.

Biden, who served for more than three decades in the U.S. Senate with Hatch, praised his former colleague in a statement, calling him a “fighter who carried with him the memory of his humble upbringing near Pittsburgh, who never humored a bully, or shied from a challenge.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania; US: Utah; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; hatch; mourns; original; orrinhatch; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; saltlakecity; utah
Let me guess they were best friends and they had lunch together everyday and the Easter Bunny used to give them both advice? Does that sound right?
1 posted on 04/24/2022 11:49:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Without a teleprompter he wouldn’t even remember Hatch’s name.


2 posted on 04/24/2022 11:51:24 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t care WHICH CongressCritter it is - they ALL need TERM LIMITS.

Maybe a system of conscripted service for those of us eligible? Fours years each, then OUT!

Yeah. I know. The Gravy Train keeps chugging along for our ‘betters’ that can’t hold down a real job. *Rolleyes*


3 posted on 04/24/2022 12:00:48 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
longest-serving Republican senator in history,


Is that supposed to be a good thing? Dude didn't have a life. Rip.
4 posted on 04/24/2022 12:26:59 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( "The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s like the McRib®


5 posted on 04/24/2022 12:31:37 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No one wore a stick pin better than Orrin.


6 posted on 04/24/2022 12:32:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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If Grassley wins he'll bump Hatch to #2, like Hatch bumped Thurmond (who served longer in total but started out as a Democrat).

Thurmond's Republican years (1964-2003) corresponded to a big, eventful chunk of my life. Hatch's years in office were 1977-2019, and the last 20 years of my life were just kind of a blur. It's hard to believe that we're almost a quarter-way into the new century.

But yeah, it's a job like any other, and sometimes you manage to keep the job for decades by doing nothing.

Look at Biden.

7 posted on 04/24/2022 12:40:53 PM PDT by x
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Hatch and Biden were best of friends. What does that say about Hatch?

Hatch has been dead over a day now I can bash him.

When I was politically ignorant, I LIKED Orrin Hatch. He TALKED a good game.

BUT when push came to shove, he would cave. All hat, no cattle, Hatch.

Don’t revere the man too much, just because he is now dead.

All is not forgiven just because you are dead. That’s when the consequences BEGIN.


8 posted on 04/24/2022 1:05:18 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats love to laud Republicans - when they’re dead.


9 posted on 04/24/2022 2:35:17 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Without a teleprompter he wouldn’t even remember Hatch’s name.

Hatch was an idiot. Sorry to demean the dead but I call them as I see them. He wasn’t much help on the Republican side of the aisle that I can remember but being the person I am, I stand corrected.


10 posted on 04/24/2022 2:54:08 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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Just about all of them TALK a good game but actually DO very, very, very little of any use.

If we were to simply
ENFORCE the laws we have and
MANAGE the programs and MONEY we have and
AUDIT and demand EFFICIENCY and
PUNISH failures and crimes
we would be orders of magnitude better off than we are today or at any time for at least the last 100 years.


11 posted on 04/24/2022 6:13:28 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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Congress is a game and Americans are being played.

If the end product was good, this would be ok.


12 posted on 04/24/2022 8:43:21 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( "The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Werthers?


13 posted on 04/24/2022 8:44:37 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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