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1. #1
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:43 am, et said:

   They are all power hungry hypocrites first . Senators second and public servants a distant third.

2. #2
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:43 am, englishqueen01 said:

   A slobbering love affair: Orrin Hatch and Chris Dodd

   There’s a mental image I didn’t need, well, ever…

3. #3
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:45 am, Misscheryl said:

   oh for cryin out loud! Losers et al.

4. #4
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:46 am, Misscheryl said:

   EQ – I’ve missed reading your comments. Hope all is well with you.

5. #5
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:46 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

   Yet another reason not to donate money to the NRSC.

   Right you are-I will and I do find CONSERVATIVE candidates to support but sending money to these RINO Centrals is worse than a waste-it feeds the infection. Sen. Orrin Hatch seems to have a love affair with a lot of hard Leftist/bums–begone fool.

   And do not donate the RNC or the Republican House Committee either. They ignore us-tit for tat.

6. #6
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:47 am, olsantaroy said:

   Will Hatch join his esteemed colleague Specter on the other side the aisle? PLEASE!

7. #7
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:50 am, hawkeye54 said:

   You should do this H & R Block fashion. Count up the reasons we should be shunning financial support to NRSC, which has turned, for the most part into a minor subsidy of the Democrat Party.

   This story should be, by now, something like “Reason #11,289 not to contribute to the NRSC”.

   Too many GOP Senators really do love their counterpart Dems and no doubt pal around with them after working hours.

8. #8
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:51 am, rplatt said:

   I think these weak old men in the Republican Party are suffering from dementia.

9. #9
   On July 17th, 2009 at 10:52 am, Dasher said:

   When push comes to shove Orrin Hatch is one big disappointment, year after year.

   On the other hand maybe his assessment of Dodd is spot on. Dodd is great compared to the rest of them, and from a conservative perspective Dodd should be in jail… where should the rest be.

10. #10
    On July 17th, 2009 at 10:56 am, spaceycakes said:

    Oh noes, Michelle. It’s too early on a Friday to get me bowels in an uproar over these two bum-chums.

11. #11
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:00 am, hawkeye54 said:

    I think these weak old men in the Republican Party are suffering from dementia.

    And yet another argument for term limits and a part time Congress. These people are also are probably jealous of the Dems, observing what can get away with and the GOP can’t, not to mention they want to be popular with the Dems. If they stood their ground on Republican principles, they’d be very lonely in DC.

12. #12
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:01 am, maisy said:

    If EVER there was a time for a Third Viable Party it is NOW. And it can’t happen too soon!!!
    Palin can lead the charge!

13. #13
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:05 am, stillontheroad said:

    spaceycakes said:

    Jeeez, I never knew coffe could come out my nose till I saw you so very apt discription of these two clowns. Bum-Chums LOLOL

14. #14
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:05 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    Collegiality is a bygone concept. The sooner the R’s figure out that the D’s abandoned all pretense of cross-party cooperation years ago the better off we’ll be.

15. #15
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:06 am, bradley said:

    I haven’t donated a DIME to the Republican national committee, even though they keep pouring direct mail pleas for me to do so. I wrote back and said I donated to SARAH PALIN, NOT to the idiots running the GOP, and until they grew some cojones I wouldn’t donate again.
    Of course, that didn’t stop rivers of begging letters from coming into my mailbox.

16. #16
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:13 am, Marc said:

    Let’s not forget that Chris Dodd is one of the nastiest politicians in the land. He is still remembered infamously by me and others for his “speech” in 1984 or thereabouts following an address by President Reagan. He sided with Ortega in Nicaragua and accused the US of murder and imperialism and all sorts of things. I think he even accused the US of complicity in the murder of four nuns in El Salvador (although that could have been Mario Cuomo who made that whopper. Cuomo stopped repeating that lie after it turned out that Carter was president when the nuns were killed). And let’s not forget that Dodd’s father was censured by the US Senate for converting campaign donations to personal gain and Dodd’s dad also double dipped for travel expenses and should have ended up in the federal pen. Chris still defends his shyster dad and said ole Tom Dodd never did anything wrong.

17. #17
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:18 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I for one, am not surprised. Look at how the GOP is rolling over on the “Sonia Lotomanure” (hat tip to Firehat)hearings.
    Call them Butt Buddies, Bum Chums,(tx Spacey) what have you. These incestuous relationships need a cold firehose ASAP.

    I’ve been ready for a 3rd party for quite some time now. What say you?

18. #18
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:24 am, J S Ragman said:

    Today’s Democrats remind me of what I have always thought about the French. Any time they pat you on the back, they are just looking for a soft spot to stick the knife.

19. #19
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:28 am, spaceycakes said:

    Rogue; I’m already tired of the 3rd party–I’m ready to move on to the the 4th one!

20. #20
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:28 am, Flyoverman said:

    Time to break up The Club. They can get together ansd schmooze on their own time and dime.

21. #21
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am, walterc said:

    Unfortunately a third party will not garner any support from the masses only split the conservative vote. The sheeple vote “D” or “R” blindly. If our conservative candidates could sing, then maybe we could get the American Idol vote.

    The answer is to take back the GOP and make it conservative again. If the masses vote anti Dems, they will vote Repub.

22. #22
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:31 am, tre said:

    Orrin Hatch also thinks Ted Kennedy is just terrific, too. I think he needs to follow that evil spirit, Specter, in joining the dem’s, then getting voted out.

23. #23
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am, hawkeye54 said:

    Orrin Hatch also thinks Ted Kennedy is just terrific, too

    I blame it on too much exposure to DC swamp gas over the years.

24. #24
    On July 17th, 2009 at 11:54 am, moonshot said:

    psst…republican, independent and democratic senators don’t really hate each other. Many are close friends but just play the part for partisan morons. (constituents, media and blogs)

    In reality, some of the senators are actually better human beings than many of us. All you have to do is listen to right/left talk radio, TV and read Free Republic or Democratic Underground. They aren’t truly buying and living all that hatred and silliness…except when in front of a camera…for the moron masses.

25. #25
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    bradley: Ask NOT what your elected representatives can do for America-ask what America can do for your elected representatives.

    A House and Senate cleaning is needed–let them find honest work for once.

26. #26
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    A House and Senate cleaning is needed–let them find honest work for once.

    Yup. Just like a stable needs cleaning, so does CONgress, and more frequently at that. The more time spent in CONgress the less able these CONgresspeople would be and have been in knowing how to find honest work, or even trying.

27. #27
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:22 pm, DirkBelig said:

    It’s just the usual chumminess of the Millionaires Club that calls itself “the greatest deliberative body in the world” despite have toolboxes like Al Franken, Barbara Boxer, John McCain and now Orrin Hatch stinking up the place.

    There’s also a touch of Stockholm Syndrome in the Stupid Party. The more they have their teeth kicked in by the Dems, the more they question what it is they’re doing wrong that makes the Dems so justifiably angry with them?

    To wit, when the Senate was 50-50, the Dems demanded – and the Stupid Party readily acquiesced – that they have “power sharing” but when the Dems have a 60-40 supermajority, they are quite happy to rule as if it was 100-0. (OK, it’s like 98-2 because sellouts like Snowe and Collins get called (R) while voting (D).)

28. #28
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Could Hatch be the new “meat” in the infamous Kennedy/Dodd “waitress sandwich”?

    Hire politicians like juries: pick them, sort out the conflicts and interests, give them the facts and the law, let them sort it out, go home. No benefits, no pay, no prestige. Just serve the U.S. and go home to a real job.

29. #29
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, diggafromdover said:

    As I recall, the hatch-meister was also won’t to play kissy face with nearly dead Ted…

30. #30
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:27 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Hatch said. “Of course, I always have been; Chris is one of the better Senators here.

    Of course, relatively speaking, that isn’t saying much at all.

    I get CT television, and you would not believe all the Dodd rehabilitation commercials on the television.

31. #31
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, Thomas said:

    Third parties are really great.

    At losing elections, screwing conservatives and helping to get democrats elected.

32. #32
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:46 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Rougue – I’m ready. Way too much late-night cigar smokin’, trash-talkin’ buddy-buddy back slappin’ liquor totin’ BS going on among all of them. I can hear my teeth grinding when I hear Repubs saying, “My esteemed colleague from the great state of______” Maybe that’s protocol, but it really gripes me. Republicans are fools to believe that Dems give two twits about them.

33. #33
    On July 17th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, Member-VRWC said:

    Yet another reason not to donate money to the NRSC.

    I haven’t needed any reasons for years.

    Donating to the NRSC, RNC, etc is a grab bag affair. Much of the agenda for these national groups has no value for conservatives. Your contribution could be used to support the re-election of a Democrat like Arlen Spector. Oh, wait. When Arlen ran against Pat Toomey in 2004, it was!

    Donate to a specific candidate that you believe in. That way you know exactly where it is going.

34. #34
    On July 17th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, rightisright said:

    …public servants…

    Long ago out lived it’s meaning.

35. #35
    On July 17th, 2009 at 1:10 pm, DirkBelig said:

    Yeah, but now it means the “public [are our] servants.”

36. #36
    On July 17th, 2009 at 1:12 pm, rightisright said:

    Hatch has gone senile, drank too much kool aid or combo of the two…he was suppose to have gone home to stay 4 terms ago(24 years) his original campaign pledges.

37. #37
    On July 17th, 2009 at 1:14 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Third parties are really great.

    At losing elections, screwing conservatives and helping to get democrats elected.

    So true of the last 20 years or so. In ’68 didn’t a third party help split the Dem vote in the presidential election?

    It would take a mighty effort nowadays to make any current minor political party relevent enough and hugely attractive enough to be the third party which can draw significant numbers of those dissatisfied with and willing to defect from either or both of the two major parties.

    It is possible. The GOP was once a third party and replaced a polictal party that had lost its relevance in the polital landscape of the 1850′s. Whigs anyone?

    IIRC the fledgling GOP first drew national attention in the 1856 elections, but did have to have help in 1860 by a huge rift of factions in the Democrat Party for Lincoln to win.

38. #38
    On July 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Sounds like he’s kissing Dodd’s a$$ so he can get something that he wants. It’s usually not more complicated than that.

39. #39
    On July 17th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, vickisoup said:

    I stopped giving money to anything “R”. When they give me something to be excited about, I’ll start giving again. It will never come from Orrin Hatch or Lindsay Graham, that’s for sure.
    

40. #40
    On July 17th, 2009 at 2:54 pm, vatodio said:

    Today’s Republicans are closer to the Democratic party of the 1960s.

    None of these fools deserve our money or sympathies.

    Until the true conservatives are back in power, the country is going to be RAPED by the LOONY LEFT.
    Sadly, I don’t see the change in power in the near future.

    Most manufacturing jobs have already been outsourced to the countries with abundance of cheap labor. Those countries are also investing their profits into educating their populations.
    Once they figure out that, besides actually producing the goods that the World buys from them, they can also service (paper pushing) their economy, USA will be done.

    Sharing the wealth from the nation’s Producers to the lazy BUMs (and some unfortunate souls) is a compassionate idea.
    But once you reduce the pool of the Producers, whose money are you going to redistribute?

41. #41
    On July 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, cheapseat said:

    we have had 3 parties in this country for over 40 years, they just don’t get labelled that way by the media. liberals will always vote for liberals, ie lgm, conservatives will always vote for conservatives, and the “independents, moderates, libertarians” will always elect the politicians. which ever way they swing at any election will be the winner, because “the base” of both parties is evenly split somewhere in the 30% range. the remaining 40% decide the elections. they vote their pocketbook!

42. #42
    On July 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pm, Kingfish said:

    Strike One: Kennedy/Hatch
    Strike Two: Hatch/Dodd
    Strike Three: Kennedy-Hatch-Dodd-Franks

    Thanks everyone for the mental image!
    Now I need Brain Bleach to erase that scene!

43. #43
    On July 17th, 2009 at 3:32 pm, spaceycakes said:

    c’mon Kingfish. You just need to be open to yer feelings.

    bowm chicka mau mau

44. #44
    On July 17th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, Kingfish said:

    They say that politics make strange bed fellows, but that is just TOO MUCH.

    Soundtrack excluded

45. #45
    On July 17th, 2009 at 4:19 pm, obdurate said:

    Its time to vote everyone of these useless RINO maggots out of office, they are so out of touch with their constituents.

46. #46
    On July 17th, 2009 at 5:06 pm, ScottyDog said:

    Orrin Hatch is a dependable CFR/TriLateral member that can be depended on to vote for any measure that will result in the Rockefeller New World Order.

    Question-Why has there always been a Rockefeller in the Senate?

    Answer-To bribe or threaten any Senator that gets off the reservation.

47. #47
    On July 17th, 2009 at 6:23 pm, almiller said:

    Orrin Hatch is a fool.

48. #48
    On July 17th, 2009 at 6:28 pm, edward cropper said:

    They don’t call this spineless creep Whoren Hatch for nothing

49. #49
    On July 17th, 2009 at 7:44 pm, Send_Me said:

    Don’t cry, “conservatives”. You all keep voting for these Republicans… Pitiful.

50. #50
    On July 18th, 2009 at 12:51 am, drfredc said:

    Anyone know where’s the handy photoshop picture of a Rhino brown-nosing an donkey?

51. #51
    On July 20th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    At this point the NRSC is NOT counting on a contribution from me.

52. #52
    On July 20th, 2009 at 9:40 pm, zyzzyg said:

    I think it is part of Senate culture and tradition, ummm, to be ‘collegial’.

    Wasn’t there once a duel in one of the chambers of Congress? There haven’t been any in a long while, and I think that is a good thing.

    When it is time to take Sen Dodd to task, I am certain Sen Hatch will. And, I am equally certain that it will not involve a duel.

53. #53
    On July 22nd, 2009 at 3:10 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    zyzzyg: Gag me. These guys are all in this together – to enrich themselves at the country’s expense. They are NOT patriots. I think a duel would be a GOOD thing—if we, the people, get to choose who duels and with what weapons.