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Title: Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch Retiring After 4 Decades In Senate (Senator Mitt Romney?)
Source: Zero Hedge
URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018 ... etiring-after-4-decades-senate
Published: Jan 2, 2018
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2018-01-02 17:33:30 by Hondo68
Keywords: Anchor Baby Mitt, Booby Hatch, Senator Mitt Romney
Views: 959
Comments: 9

Update: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered the official White House's statement on Hatch's retirement announcement at today's press briefing.

"The president has the greatest and deepest respect for Hatch and his four decades of leadership in the Senate," she said.

* * *

After months of will-he-or-won’t-he speculation – and on the heels of the Republican victory on tax reform, and effort that he helped supervise and lead – Utah Senator and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Tuesday that he will retire when his term ends at the end of this year. Hatch, who as the longest serving Republican member of the Senate also served as President Pro Tempore, had been expected to decide by the end of 2017.

His decision to step aside leaves an opening for former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to run for Hatch's soon-to-be-vacant seat. Hatch was first elected to the senate in 1976 on a promise to campaign for legislative term limits.

Hatch had waffled on whether he would seek an eighth term or retire at the end of 2018. In recent weeks he appeared to be signaling that he would run for another term.

However, his involvement with the Trump tax plan recently made him the target of a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune that jokingly labeled him "Utahn of the Year." Hatch seemed to laugh off the editorial, a response that raised questions about whether he understood its contents.

As the SLT pointed out, three-quarters of Utahns don’t want him to run again, and, at 83, his age has raised questions about his ability to continue doing the job.

But his ability to coax President Trump to fly to Utah last month to praise Hatch even as the tax-reform battle was raging has earned him a newfound relevance in the contemporary Republican power structure.

Romney now has until March 15 to file to run for Hatch's seat.


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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)

It is true conspiracy and collusion at its best!

buckeroo  posted on  2018-01-02   17:37:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: hondo68 (#0)

40 years holding the same seat of public office should be proof positive that the system is broken.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-01-02   18:17:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: hondo68 (#0) (Edited)

"Don't count your Hatch before he chickens!" was the saying, I believe.

One less useless parasite who would have benefited his nation by being nailed by a bus decades ago, to be replaced by the same.

Hank Rearden  posted on  2018-01-02   18:54:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Pinguinite (#2)

Not necessarily. I'd rather Hatch stay then have rombutt on there.

You heard it here first. Rombutt 2020 is gonna happen.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-02   19:49:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)

rMoney is a Mormon and just another billionaire.

I can't stand him.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2018-01-02   19:54:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Fred Mertz (#5)

Millionaire.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-01-02   20:04:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: A K A Stone (#4) (Edited)

Not necessarily. I'd rather Hatch stay then have rombutt on there.

I'd rather it go to a randomly selected person. If congress was filled by lottery instead of elections, the world would probably be much better off.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-01-02   20:41:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: A K A Stone, severely Utah, Fred Mertz (#6)

First screenshot: 3:12 PM EST today

Second screenshot: 5:45 PM EST today

See if you can spot the difference.

2:47 PM - 2 Jan 2018

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/948324963068661760/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ronpaulforums.com%2Fshowthread.php%3F518121-Utah-Republican-Sen-Orrin-Hatch-Retiring-After-4-Decades-In-Senate

The Mittster has updated his tweeterer from Massachusetts to Holladay, UT.

It didn't take him long to slither from MA to Utah!

Hondo68  posted on  2018-01-02   20:53:27 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: A K A Stone (#4)

Romney can't beat Trump in a primary.

He not much more popular with the Republicans than McTumor. The person to fear will be the the next socialist sensation, to team up with Pocahontas... and run on the DipshitCrat ticket. Methinks Commie Sanders will be too old by 2020... but whoever he endorses will instantly garner millions of votes from his violent, mindless, intolerant cult followers.

I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح

GrandIsland  posted on  2018-01-03   1:00:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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