A mid-afternoon pick-me-up

Thanks, Ms. Donna Murphy, I needed this:

Pants on fire much?

I'm so tired of being represented in government by people who insult our intelligence, vote against our best interest, and then expect us to blindly reelect them as we do every year.  

Orrin Hatch in the Washington Post:

This use of reconciliation to jam through this legislation, against the will of the American people, would be unprecedented in scope. And the havoc wrought would threaten our system of checks and balances, corrode the legislative process, degrade our system of government and damage the prospects of bipartisanship.

Seriously Senator Hatch, stop with the hypocrisy and the lies.  If you have substantive problems with health care reform, feel free to air them, but I'm personally insulted that you think that Utahns are too stupid to fact check the malarky that comes out of your mouth.  A fourth grader with a computer could disprove your distortions.  


The Republican minority has damaged the prospects of bipartisanship by voting against everything put forward (even ideas they used to espouse...and worse, legislation they actually sponsored.)  

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Hatch said Thursday that using reconciliation would be “one of the worst grabs for power in the history of the country” that would permanently impact relations between the two parties. 

“It is going to be outright war and it should be, because it would be such an abuse of the reconciliation rules,” Hatch said. “If they abuse those rules it is going to lead to even more heated animosities between not just the two parties, but even between individual senators.”  

Fascinating political posturing Senator...but in case your memory is shot, let me remind you that you voted for… 

• The College Cost Reduction Act of 2007 ( passed through reconciliation)
• The Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (which passed through reconciliation)
• The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (which passed through reconciliation)
• The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (which passed through reconciliation)
• The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (which passed through reconcilation)
• The Marriage Tax Penalty Relief Reconciliation Act of 2000 (which passed through reconciliation)
• The Taxpayer Refund and Relief Act of 1999 (which passed through reconciliation)

(source: whorunsgov.com and www.sunlightfoundation.com)

AND major health care reform has already passed both legislative bodies.  The stuff that's set to pass through reconciliation amounts to a handful of tweaks (and if we're lucky, an option for the general public to buy into some public program like medicare.)


So Senator Hatch, grow a pair.  Stand up and be vocal about things if you must, but be honest with us.  Argue with the democrats on substance, not straw men.  But most importantly, be a part of the solution or get the hell out of the way.