Totally Predictable Coons Sucking of Orrin Hatch’s Desiccated, Right Wing Dick
Delaware’s junior US Senator says the late Utah Republican Orrin Hatch was “a true gentleman.”
In a statement released Sunday, Chris Coons also called Hatch ” a man of deep faith” who was “kind and generous” when Coons arrived in the Senate in 2010. – Via WDEL
Meanwhile the truth about Hatch:
Hatch crafted the Hatch Fair Act which absolutely screwed over asbestosis victims and any chances they had to receive compensation from the criminal companies that produced and sold asbestos products to the public despite knowing the harm and mortal danger their product presented. Screw his religiosity and phony morality. Another corporate whore.
Here’s the gentlemanly Hatch going after Anita Hill:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006118721/orrin-hatch-the-exorcist-clarence-thomas.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8uf4vt-EQ
Sen. Coons: Your nostalgia is for a past that hasn’t existed long before your ‘Godly’ friend went after Anita Hill. Ya think ‘God’ approved of his performance there? Just HOW do you define ‘God’, anyway? I mean, besides being a bipartisan ‘God’.
Hatch was nothing more than a nasty partisan attack dog who was part of your fucking Bible group up there on the Hill. You’re nothing more than the Senate’s Maginot Line. You provide cover for these MAGAts.
Speaking of ‘bipartisanship’, Ben DuPont waxes poetic over Joe Manchin:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/2022/04/24/sen-manchin-deserves-credit-battle-bipartisanship-opinion/7388321001/
https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/04/24/former-u-s-sen-orrin-hatch-dies-at-88-spotty-record-on-lgbtq-rights/
“At the start of his political rise in Republican politics as a newly elected U.S. Senator in 1977, he told students from the University of Utah; ‘I wouldn’t want to see homosexuals teaching school anymore than I’d want to see members of the American Nazi Party teaching school.'”
HOWEVER…
“It appeared to political observers and others that as time moved on, the Senator was becoming more progressive in his viewpoints regarding LGBTQ+ people.
“In July 2017, after President Donald Trump’s announcement that he ordered a ban on military service for transgender Americans the senator said; ‘I don’t think we should be discriminating against anyone, transgender people are people, and deserve the best we can do for them.’
“In June of 2018, the year he retired from the Senate, Hatch gave a speech on the Senate floor expressing his support for the LGBTQ+ community and drawing attention to the high suicide rates among LGBTQ+ youth.
“‘No one should ever feel less because of their gender identity or sexual orientation,’ Hatch said. ‘LGBT youth deserve our unwavering love and support. They deserve our validation and the assurance that not only is there a place for them in this society, but that it is far better off because of them. These young people need us—and we desperately need them.'”
Point: people can change, and that’s great, but they can also leave horrible scars and legislation in their wake. I won’t praise him but I sure wish the Republicans were a whole lot more like him today instead of cult members.
Yeah Lee Atwater changed when that tumor started growing in his brain. Don’t be ridiculous, these right-wing, hate fostering maniacs never change they just try to white-out the pages of their history and type over it.
Representative John Kowalko
If you watch the right wingers who join Coons for some useless piece of bipartisan window dressing, they typically have no qualms about turning on a dime and calling public school teachers lazy socialist, and berating Biden nominees as child molesting perverts.
It is like Coons always comes down with a sudden case of amnesia as soon as the bipartisan press release goes out. There really is no right wing nut that Coons will not work with if he can get a press release out of it.