GOP Senator: Progressives Are ‘Just Straight Old Dumb-Ass Liberals’

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2011, file photo Republican Senator of Utah Orrin Hatch, 78, serving in his sixth term on Capitol Hill, calls on the president to kick start a dormant U.S. trade agenda in Washington. Every ha... FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2011, file photo Republican Senator of Utah Orrin Hatch, 78, serving in his sixth term on Capitol Hill, calls on the president to kick start a dormant U.S. trade agenda in Washington. Every handshake counts in Utah’s unique nominating system, even for a senator seeking his seventh term. To avoid a primary, Hatch needs at least 60 percent of the 4,000 delegates expected to vote. In spite of Hatch having spent more than $5 million since the beginning of 2011 to defend his seat, the fate of one of the most powerful senators in the country is coming down to just a few hundred votes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) MORE LESS

By Tom Kludt

November 14, 2014 5:22 p.m.

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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) devoted a speech Friday to discuss just how little he thinks of Democrats and liberals.

According to the Huffington Post, the Utah Republican told attendees at the Federalist Society’s annual conference that he looks forward to giving Democrats “a taste of their own medicine” after the GOP takes back the White House in 2016.

Hatch said he’d prefer to have the Senate keep the new filibuster rules that were passed by Democrats last year to “teach those blunderheads that they made a big mistake.”

And Hatch showed that jokes about progressives will always do well at a conservative legal confab.

“I get a big kick out of them using the word ‘progressive,'” Hatch said, as quoted by HuffPost. “My gosh, they’re just straight old dumb-ass liberals anyway.”

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Tom Kludt (@TomKludt) Tom Kludt is a reporter for Talking Points Memo based in New York City, covering media and national affairs. Originally from South Dakota, Tom joined TPM as an intern in late-2011 and became a staff member during the 2012 election. He can be reached at tom@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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darcy says:

November 15, 2014

Hey TPM … get your tech shit together!!

Oh, and by the way Orrin … FUCK YOU!
wtf1 says:

November 15, 2014

And republi-cons are just stupid ass CONS!
mhjhahkh says:

November 15, 2014

And what do you expect from a plain old dumb ass goober?
ethelthe says:

November 15, 2014

Denis Healey once observed that being attacked by Sir Geoffrey Howe was ‘like being savaged by a dead sheep’.

I grew up in the days of Sir Geoffrey Howe and you, Senator Hatch, are no Sir Geoffrey Howe.

I know I am mixing British and American quotes here, but you get the general idea. Orrin really is an odious little man.
jw1 says:

November 15, 2014

Uncanny resemblance.

jw1

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