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Utah paper tells Hatch to 'call it a career' in blistering editorial

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Utah paper tells Hatch to 'call it a career' in blistering editorial

BY AVERY ANAPOL
12/25/17

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Senator Orrin Hatch (R/UT)

The Salt Lake Tribune’s editorial board named Hatch their 2017 “Utahn of the Year,” a designation the paper says is given to someone who has “had the biggest impact. For good or for ill.” The newspaper said Hatch earned the title based on “his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.” “It would be good for Utah if Hatch, having finally caught the Great White Whale of tax reform, were to call it a career,” the Tribune's editorial board wrote. “If he doesn’t, the voters should end it for him.” The Tribune went after Hatch for his involvement in President Trump’s decision earlier this year to shrink two national monuments in the state, saying there was “no constitutional, legal or environmental logic" behind the move. “To all appearances — appearances promoted by Hatch — this anti-environmental, anti-Native American and, yes, anti-business decommissioning of national monuments was basically a political favor the White House did for Hatch,” the editorial states.

The Tribune also noted Hatch’s involvement in the passage of the GOP tax plan last week given his role as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The plan has been criticized by opponents who say it primarily benefits wealthy individuals and corporations, claims that backers of the plan reject. The editorial criticizes Hatch for saying in 2012 that it would be his last campaign, but now appears to be preparing to run again in 2018, which would be his eight term. “Once again, Hatch has moved to freeze the field to make it nigh unto impossible for any number of would-be senators to so much as mount a credible challenge,” the paper said. “That’s not only not fair to all of those who were passed over. It is basically a theft from the Utah electorate.” A poll from earlier this year found that three-quarters of Utahns want Hatch to retire.
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Utter lack of integrity indeed. Hatch should retire before he does additional damage to his state of Utah and the United States of America.

Related: Letter: It's clear Hatch has sold his soul and lost his way
 
Hatch is the longest serving Republican Senator in US history.

His plans to run for re-election in 2018 also violate a 2012 promise not to do so. Yet another Hatch lie.

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Hatch presided over the sweeping GOP overhaul (giveaway to the wealthy) of the U.S. tax code.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Hatch is the longest serving Republican Senator in US history.

His plans to run for re-election in 2018 also violate a 2012 promise not to do so. Yet another Hatch lie.

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Hatch presided over the sweeping GOP overhaul (giveaway to the wealthy) of the U.S. tax code.
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And he has abandoned supporting the CHIP program he had co-authored with the late senator Ted Kennedy
 
RetiredUSN said:
LOL..... Yet, CHIP was one of the first things to be funded if the government did shut down.

Congress provides short-term funding for CHIP - Dec. 21, 2017

Them freaking republicans! :roll:
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The current state of CHIP: What happens next as the children’s health program runs low on funds

ALISON DURKEE
Dec 25th 2017

Republicans in Congress spent their last weeks in session of the year focusing on tax reform — and their efforts, critics have argued, come at the expense of millions of American children’s health care. The Children’s Health Insurance Program, which insures 9.2 million Americans as of 2016, has been without federal funding since it expired Sept. 30. Though some short-term funding has been able to cover it through the end of 2017, a number of states will soon run out of money if Congress can’t renew the health insurance program quickly. “We’re going to do CHIP. There’s no question about it in my mind,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who initially helped create the program, said on the Senate floor in December. “It’s got to be done the right way. But the reason CHIP’s having trouble is because we don’t have money anymore.”

Though Congress passed short-term funding for CHIP on Dec. 21 as part of a spending bill that averted a federal shutdown, the program’s long-term outlook still remains unclear — and children covered by the health care program may soon face the consequences. Congress will fund the state programs through March, though some sources predict the funding could actually run out by early February. The patch, however, did not provide additional funding, but rather redistributed existing unused CHIP funds to cover states that were running out of funding the fastest. The Georgetown study found, however, that the move was “rob[bing] Peter to pay Paul,” resulting in other states running out of funding faster. Though Congress’s newest influx of funding will likely help to mitigate the effects, states are already taking steps to prepare for their CHIP funding to run dry. Colorado and Virginia have already sent letters to families warning that their coverage may come to an end by the end of January, while Connecticut has announced that it will close is Husky B health program at the end of January due to the lack of funds.
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Them freakin Republicans couldn't give away tax-cut billions to the wealthy fast enough, but still can't fund the Children's Health Insurance Program that began running dry in September of 2017.

The wonderful Orrin Hatch (R/UT) Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee complained: "We don’t have money anymore.”

Another crock of Hatch/GOP crappola.
 
Rogue Valley said:
The current state of CHIP: What happens next as the children’s health program runs low on funds



Them freakin Republicans couldn't give away tax-cut billions to the wealthy fast enough, but still can't fund the Children's Health Insurance Program that began running dry in September of 2017.

The wonderful Orrin Hatch (R/UT) Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee complained: "We don’t have money anymore.”

Another crock of Hatch/GOP crappola.
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You can keep wetting the bed, but CHIP isn't going anywhere.
 
RetiredUSN said:
You can keep wetting the bed, but CHIP isn't going anywhere.
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September, October, November, December....

GOP certainly isn't in any hurry to fund American children's healthcare.

"We don’t have money anymore.”
 
Rogue Valley said:
September, October, November, December....

GOP certainly isn't in any hurry to fund American children's healthcare.

"We don’t have money anymore.”
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Now you revert to this nonsense.

CHIP, is being funded, and will be funded.

God almighty dude!
 
RetiredUSN said:
Now you revert to this nonsense.

CHIP, is being funded, and will be funded.

God almighty dude!
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Unsurprisingly, you apparently can't read very well.

Though Congress passed short-term funding for CHIP on Dec. 21 as part of a spending bill that averted a federal shutdown, the program’s long-term outlook still remains unclear. The patch, however, did not provide additional funding, but rather redistributed existing unused CHIP funds to cover states that were running out of funding the fastest. The Georgetown study found, however, that the move was “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” resulting in other states running out of funding faster.
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Orrin Hatch said:
"We don’t have money anymore.”
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Rogue Valley said:
Unsurprisingly, you apparently can't read very well.
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And.............I already stated that CHIP isn't going any wheres.

Why is it that you cannot understand this?

It's political death for either party to defund it.

But...........but................but?
 
RetiredUSN said:
And.............I already stated that CHIP isn't going any wheres.

Why is it that you cannot understand this?
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Then fund it Goddammit. CHIP is normally fully funded for 5 year periods. The GOP is the majority party in both houses. Yet they sprinted away on their Holiday break faster than Usain Bolt.

CHIP is only 3% ($16 billion) of Medicaid, yet Hatch laments about CHIP "We don’t have money anymore.” after his Senate Finance Committee authorized a $1.5 trillion tax giveaway.

Don't Play Politics With Kids' Health

How about health care as a gift for kids — let's pass CHIP this season
 
Rogue Valley said:
Then fund it Goddammit. CHIP is normally fully funded for 5 year periods. The GOP is the majority party in both houses. Yet they sprinted away on their Holiday break faster than Usain Bolt.

CHIP is only 3% ($16 billion) of Medicaid, yet Hatch laments about CHIP "We don’t have money anymore.” after his Senate Finance Committee authorized a $1.5 trillion tax giveaway.

Don't Play Politics With Kids' Health

How about health care as a gift for kids — let's pass CHIP this season
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It's you and your liberal cohorts making the big deal out of it to create drama for the minions who go for this crap journalism in the first place.
 
haymarket said:
Paul Simon wrote in in THE BOXER

"a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"
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Seems he squandered his resistance, as well. Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie...
 
haymarket said:
Hatch WILL NOT take the hint.
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Why should he? Hatch won his last election by 62% of the vote. Trump beat Hillary by 20 points in Utah.

The Trib writer doesn't like President Trump keeping his promise to cut taxes. A lot of people don't. A lot do. And the Trib doesn't even get a vote
 
jimbo said:
Why should he? Hatch won his last election by 62% of the vote. Trump beat Hillary by 20 points in Utah.

The Trib writer doesn't like President Trump keeping his promise to cut taxes. A lot of people don't. A lot do. And the Trib doesn't even get a vote
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The people who write it and read it do get to vote however. And Utah has a rather literate population.
 
haymarket said:
The people who write it and read it do get to vote however. And Utah has a rather literate population.
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And who did the Trib support in '16?

Editorial: In the end, Hillary Clinton is the only qualified candidate, and ...
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And now President Trump got 62% of the vote. Hillary barely beat the independent. 27 - 21%.
 
 
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