Maybe Orrin Hatch Was Sleeping?

8:11 pm EST December 4th, 2009 | Republicans | 15 Comments

Hatch claims that if Republicans had control of congress they would have solved our major problems. Of course, the GOP did control the government. They then proceeded to destroy the surplus, allow a fiscal bubble to inflate, explode and crush the economy, and they supported an unnecessary war that killed thousands and left us less safe.

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15 Responses to “Maybe Orrin Hatch Was Sleeping?”

  1. El Cid says:
    December 4, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    Republicans did not control the House from 1994 through 2006 and they did not control all branches of the U.S. government from 2002 – 2006. It was all controlled by Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Jimmy Carter, the CRA, and ACORN.

  2. Colorado Dave says:
    December 4, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    Yea right!

    Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was not Speaker of the House from from January 1995 until January of 1999.

    J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) was not Speaker of the House from January of 1999 until January of 2007.

    Bob Dole (R-KS) was not Senate Majority Leader from January 1995 until June 1996.

    Trent Lott (R-MS)was not Senate Majority Leader from June 1996 until June 2001.

    Bill Frist (R-TN)was not Senate Majority Leader from January 2003 until January 2007.

    George W. Bush (R-TX) was not President of the United States from january 2001 until January 2009.

    You’re an idiot.

  3. SpiderJ says:
    December 5, 2009 at 2:38 am

    Dave, you’re missing what was obvious sarcasm. You owe El Cid an apology, methinks.

  4. SaveFarris says:
    December 5, 2009 at 6:19 am

    It’s amazing that you and Think Progress can skip right over the bolded portion (“60 votes”). I know you, El Cid, and Colorado Davie think you’re oh so funny. But please point out in the last 16 years where Republicans had 60 votes in the Senate.

    Thanks. I’ll wait.

  5. Bruce Henry says:
    December 5, 2009 at 7:00 am

    And the Democrats don’t have 60 votes, either. It’s 59 plus Holy Fucking Joe Lieberman.

  6. jr says:
    December 5, 2009 at 7:47 am

    Hatch is a Randtard with an addiction to dead Arabs

  7. Bruce Henry says:
    December 5, 2009 at 8:46 am

    And, Farris, even granting that Hatch was talking about having 60 votes, do you think, (or does he) that if the GOP had WANTED to impose some “free market solution” to the health care crisis, they couldn’t have come up with a few votes from the likes of Nelson, Bayh, and Lieberman?

    Hatch wasn’t sleeping. He is just assuming that the rest of us were.

  8. SpiderJ says:
    December 5, 2009 at 9:34 am

    That’s true, Farris. That’s why the GOP was unable to get anything they wanted passed through Congress and enacted into law, ever, during those years.

    The Dems need the 60 because you can always rely on a few conservative Democrats to side with the GOP. Despite the rare defection of a Jeffords or a Specter, the GOP tends to vote in lockstep, especially so since Obama took office.

  9. Ralph says:
    December 5, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Why is Acorn last on the list? It’s the most important one, as both parties have agreed.

  10. Ralph says:
    December 5, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Right, but it’s worse than that. About half of the Democrats are what a normal Republican would be if the Republican Party had not been sinking ever deeper into a toxic mudhole starting around 1968. Republicans became deranged after the Summer of Love in San Francisco, and have never recovered their sanity.

  11. SaveFarris says:
    December 5, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    Were Republicans able to push through whatever they wanted when it came to Social Security Reform, or was it DOA thanks to a Democrat filibuster? Seems that’s a real world example of exactly what Hatch is referring to.

  12. Colorado Dave says:
    December 5, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Not so obvious actually. Take a little time to read some of the Right Wing Trolls in the Denver Post’s Comment sections (I’m sure other newspapers as well not to mention this blog) and you will find the exact same sentiment stated in all earnestness. I have had arguments with conservatives who claim the Democrats had majorities in both houses for the entirety of Clinton’s and Bush’s presidencies. Not to mention that Oliver’s original post is about Orrin Hatch’s claim that things would be wonderful if only the GOP was in charge.

    In a world where Sarah Palin is considered a viable candidate for President and where those on the far right try to argue that George Bush was not a true conservative El Cid’s sarcasm was not obvious.

  13. MatanteDodo says:
    December 5, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    It’s called Poe’s law: when an ideology is sufficiently radical, it becomes indistinguishable from parody.

  14. jrfunkenstein says:
    December 5, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    Perhaps they were too busy stripping away citizen’s rights via the bullshit Patriot Act, or allowing firms like Halliburton to make billions by engaging in mercenary warfare?

    Or maybe they just don’t give a fuck about doing anything for anyone not contributing to their campaign coffers.

  15. Zython says:
    December 6, 2009 at 2:20 am

    No, it was DOA because most people hated it and thought it was an extremely stupid idea. These people were, of course, vindicated in September 2008.