Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) really doesn’t like the Senate health care reform bill: according to the Los Angeles Times, he says the battle over the bill is “going to be a holy war.”
Hatch said he plans to make it that by using procedural delays, including reading the bill in its entirety on the Senate floor.
Hatch has had a history of hot rhetoric on the health care bill. A few weeks ago, he said that Democratic health care reform imperils America’s two-party system because “it’s a step-by-step approach to socialized health care.”
And if they get there then of course you’re going to have a rough time, you’re going to have a very rough time, having a two-party system in this country. Because almost everybody’s going to say all we ever were, all we ever are, all we ever hope to be depends on the Democratic Party.
He also doesn’t look kindly on pro-health care demonstrators; when MoveOn.org protested outside his Salt Lake City offices, Hatch said, “…they’re not gonna smear me without getting kicked in the teeth by me.”
