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Orrin Hatch announces retirement

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 14:30:34 2018

The Hill

Hatch announces retirement from Senate

By Lisa Hagen
01/02/18 02:09 PM EST
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the longest-serving GOP senator in U.S. history, announced Tuesday that he'll retire at the end of his term — a decision that could clear the path for Mitt Romney to replace him in the Senate.

Hatch, 83, made the announcement in a video posted to Twitter. Hatch's retirement comes despite President Trump's public encouragement for Hatch to run for re-election.

“I've always been a fighter. I was an amateur boxer in my youth, and I brought that fighting spirit with me to Washington,” Hatch said in the video. “But every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. And for me, that time is soon approaching."

The 83-year-old senator appeared to be signaling in recent weeks that he’d run for an eighth term in 2018, even though he previously said he’d retire when his term is up in January 2019.

The powerful Senate Finance Committee chairman played a significant role in helping Republicans pass a major tax overhaul and was also integral in the White House’s decision to shrink two national monuments in Utah. And Trump has been showering praise on Hatch, who he called a “true fighter” during a Salt Lake City speech in early December.
Hatch said he made the decision to retire to spend more time with his family.

“That’s why, after much prayer and discussion with family and friends, I've decided to retire at the end of this term," Hatch said. "Although I will miss serving you in the Senate, I look forward to spending more time with family, especially my sweet wife Elaine, whose unwavering love and support made all of this possible.”

Despite support from Trump, Hatch was under some pressure to retire.

His decision comes after The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest newspaper, published a scathing Christmas Day editorial calling on him to leave the seat. The editorial board wrote that he has an “utter lack of integrity” that comes from “his unquenchable thirst for power.”

The spotlight now shifts to Romney, who has been reportedly eyeing a Senate bid only if Hatch retired. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee is expected to be able to clear the field since he remains highly popular in Utah. Romney, a Mormon, has strong ties to the state and helped lead the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

Trump and some of his allies, including former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, were reportedly looking to block the former Massachusetts governor from running by encouraging Hatch to stay in the seat.

Romney clashed with Trump during the 2016 election, calling the then-GOP presidential candidate a “phony” and a “fraud.” And more recently, Romney condemned failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore after Trump endorsed him amid sexual misconduct allegations.

It’s unclear when Romney will decide whether or not he jumps back into the political arena, but he has until March 15 to file for Hatch’s seat.

“I haven’t spoken directly to the Governor about his intentions, but I do think he maintains a desire to serve the public,” Ryan Williams, a former aide to Romney’s presidential campaign, told The Hill last week. “I think if an opportunity arose he would seriously consider it.”
No thanks to Romney.

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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Jan 2 14:36:13 2018, in response to Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 14:30:34 2018.

i was just gonna post this

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Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jan 2 15:03:42 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Jan 2 14:36:13 2018.

I was expecting your usual zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Tue Jan 2 15:07:56 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jan 2 15:03:42 2018.

lol
nope

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Posted by orange blossom special on Tue Jan 2 16:34:09 2018, in response to Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 14:30:34 2018.

I guess the democrats fighting him and claiming he's from a privileged background was too much.

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Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement

Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 16:55:50 2018, in response to Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 14:30:34 2018.

Not a huge surprise, he's 83. Romney, for a republican, is actually fairly moderate. Not the worst tradoff in the world. There's little chance this could turn a-la Alabama, so this isn't the worst outcome possible.

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Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement

Posted by Elkeeper on Tue Jan 2 20:44:42 2018, in response to Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 14:30:34 2018.

One wealthy Utah Mormon passes the baton to an LDS transplant from Massachusetts. I think it's a done deal!

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:30:54 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 16:55:50 2018.

I'm actually impressed by your statement. No prediction of people dying.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:38:16 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:30:54 2018.

It's odd that you are, being a rabid trumper. Romney should be the last person you want in the Senate now.

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Posted by Mtk52983 on Tue Jan 2 21:41:17 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:38:16 2018.

Or we can have another female Senator if Mia Love would run. Also talk of Michele Bachmann considering a run in Minnesota. Increase number of females in Senate.

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Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement

Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:47:41 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:38:16 2018.

See, this is where you libbos get confused. I supported President Donald Trump because the alternative was too unfathomable to even consider. My actual preference was one of the 15 who didn't make the cut. I can't imagine why you supported Hillary though considering your very outspoken position on sexual harassment. Hillary laid down cover for a rapist, molester and serial harasser of women. She should have been the last person that you'd support.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:49:30 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Mtk52983 on Tue Jan 2 21:41:17 2018.

Don,t see that happening. And (I'll be polite) Bachmann's day has passed. But thanks for the chuckle.

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:51:46 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:49:30 2018.

Liberal war on real women.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:52:30 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:47:41 2018.

That you supported trump at all is the root problem.

I support Hillary Clinton because she had the best and fully throuough policy proposals. Don't forget that 3millionish more Americans agree with me.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:54:51 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:51:46 2018.

They are brainwashed ideologues. Gender doesn't matter here.

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:54:58 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:52:30 2018.

But she supported a serial rapist/sexual harasser and attacked women who charged her husband. Liberal was on women

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:56:27 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:54:51 2018.

Ah, so only women who agree with you are real women. You don't approve of women who think for themselves. Interesting.

BTW: Do you ever wear leggings? MMmmmmmm

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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jan 2 21:56:31 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:52:30 2018.

"Americans"....

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:58:35 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:54:58 2018.

Her part in that is really none of anyone's business. First Lady is not a political position. How she dealt with him, and surviving that is personal business.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:00:19 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 21:56:27 2018.

Michele Bachmann doesn't think. She's an ideologue. All she is capable of is spewing a twisted and discredited line of hateful bullshit.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:01:50 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jan 2 21:56:31 2018.

Yes, Americans. Who the fu*k do you think votes?

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:02:07 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 21:58:35 2018.

Excuse me but she was the democratic party candidate for president and she helped deflect charges that her husband was a rapist, molester and sexual harasser. How do you support a woman who supports the sexual victimization of women?

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:02:55 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:00:19 2018.

Ah, the liberal war on real women rears its ugly head again.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:03:45 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:02:07 2018.

What makes you think she does?

Those women were consentual adults, even Lewinsky. You come on to someone like him, you check's gonna get presented at the bank. Better clear.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:05:22 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:02:55 2018.

No, the need to prevent twisted ideologues from high offices is the issue here.

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:06:35 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:03:45 2018.

She publicly defended her husband and vilified Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones. Monica Lewinsky was the true personification of a sexually harassed woman given the unequal status in the workplace. You are not being honest.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:07:51 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:06:35 2018.

Flowers and Jones were consenting adults. Lewinsky was a freekin intern. She threw herself at the president.

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Posted by Fred G on Tue Jan 2 22:08:13 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:02:55 2018.

You consider Michelle Bachman a "real woman"?

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:08:44 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:05:22 2018.

No it's not. You truly hate any woman who thinks differently from yourself. You hate real women. You probably loved the Stepford Wives.

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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 22:11:17 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Elkeeper on Tue Jan 2 20:44:42 2018.

Mitt's not from Massachusetts. He's from Michigan. He did "missionary" work in France too.

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:13:07 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:07:51 2018.

Now you are just making shit up. Admit that you are wrong. Didn't Hillary also defend a rapist as an attorney, in Arkansas and vilify the young rape victim? Didn't she publicly attack the victim in the media after the trial was over. How could you support such a woman unless you hate women too?

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:14:26 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Fred G on Tue Jan 2 22:08:13 2018.

Yeas I do. What aspect of her Chromosomes, her DNA or her physical makeup would lead you to doubt it?

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:15:18 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 22:11:17 2018.

LOL

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 2 22:16:48 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:13:07 2018.

What is wrong with her defending a rapist? Wasn't she a court-appointed attorney?

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 2 22:18:27 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:07:51 2018.

Bill Clinton was a rapist and should never have been elected president. When will Juanita Broaddrick's #metoo moment come?

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:18:36 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 2 22:16:48 2018.

There is nothing wrong with defending the rapist. It was her actions after the trial that I'm calling into question.

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Posted by Fred G on Tue Jan 2 22:18:50 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:14:26 2018.

I'm mocking your use of the adjective "real".

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:20:13 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:08:44 2018.

LOL! You harass me here and then try to say I'm enabling them?

Bachmann proved her ineptness for office years ago. There are incompetent women. She's one of them. You forget how discredited she is. That'll come right backup and she's done as a candidate, barring republican desperation for a "warm" body on the ballot in their column. After all, they ran a child molester. Don't forget he lost. She won't be any different.

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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 2 22:21:56 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:15:18 2018.

Well, he's George Romney's kid. Mr. Rambler while at Nash-Kelvinator/AMC.

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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jan 2 22:24:12 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:01:50 2018.

Dead people, illegal aliens, unregistered voters, multiple-time voters....

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 2 22:24:15 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:18:36 2018.

She was interviewed for a newspaper and laughed at the fact that her client passed a polygraph.

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:25:03 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 22:20:13 2018.

I do not harass you. I mock you. I also maintain my point that the only women who you attack are women with whom you disagree with politically - ironically the same reason that I mock you.

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Posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:26:31 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 2 22:24:15 2018.

It want much further than that. She made insensitive comments about the victim.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 23:17:42 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jan 2 22:24:12 2018.

LOl! That's the stuff of myth. The real voter frauds occur with absentee ballots.

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Posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 23:19:38 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:26:31 2018.

I wouldn't call that kettle black if I were you.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 2 23:46:08 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by R2Chinatown on Tue Jan 2 22:26:31 2018.

She didn’t say anything insensitive about the victim in the interview you’re thinking of.

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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Jan 3 00:23:55 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by bingbong on Tue Jan 2 23:17:42 2018.

I forgot that and that too!

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Posted by AlM on Wed Jan 3 00:54:50 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 2 22:18:27 2018.

He never would have been if the same level of accusations had been made about him in 1992 as were made about Trump in 2016. Democratic primary voters would have picked someone else, in contrast to Republican primary voters.

In 1992 (and even in 1996), there was nothing credible known to make people think he was any worse than Eisenhower, Reagan, or Clarence Thomas.

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Posted by RockParkMan on Wed Jan 3 06:45:40 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by Fred G on Tue Jan 2 22:08:13 2018.

Fuck, if she was any dumber, Dr. Pol would be reaching inside her to pull out a calf. 😂

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Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 3 10:07:08 2018, in response to Re: Orrin Hatch announces retirement, posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Jan 3 00:23:55 2018.

No, just that. The rest are RW myth. Know your fake news.

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