Orrin Hatch warns Senate 'is in crisis' in farewell speech

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“The Senate, as an institution, is in crisis,” Sen. Hatch, 84, the man who is 3rd in line to the presidency, warns in farewell address.

 

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Morning_Joe You think?

Because Reps like you are covering & turning a blind eye to Trump’s misdoings

We are only in crisis when the Democrats stay in office.

Morning_Joe What a hypocrite , who has disgraced himself and the Senates in unquestioning fealty to Trump.

senatorhatch1 Good riddance! What else is there to say about a borderline bigot and a man with no capacity to come up with the right decisions!

Morning_Joe He should know. He helped create it.

Blah blah blah....hey hey goodbye

A crisis Hatch helped create.

Bye Felicia. I'l stand over your grave till I'm sure that you're dead.

The Senate is in crisis because of sleazy characters like you who preach against a president for a consensual sexual affair but praise a man who has led the most corrupt administration in history and is not yet halfway through it. A Mormon devoid of any values.

We could do without the Senate and the incredibly unfair advantage it gives to residents of tiny Republican states.

Morning_Joe Because the Senate is run by a bunch of cowards , and a bunch of old men.... Go home Mr. HATCH.... GO HOME!!

You are the poster child for term limits !!! People like you are the crisis , good riddens .

Morning_Joe He’s on Team Vlad.

Thank you Senator Hatch, you are 100% correct, and you sir have represented all too well exactly what has caused the demise. Party lock step has taken over, America is worse off as a result.

Morning_Joe So glad he is retiring finally he was worthless

Morning_Joe Mr. Hatch - you're in crisis. You're time has come to say g'bye. You're no longer relevant. Take Trumpkin with you.

I'd demand a mental stability test on him if he were ever in position to be acting president. The guy should have retired a long time ago.

And he is one of the main reasons. When Senators and Congressmen and congresswomen abdicate their role and subject themselves to be lapdog and partners in crimes of the president and actively participate in spreading falsehoods and lies, one would expect an institutional crisis.

The senate is in a crisis because republicans are not holding Trump accountable. Republicans are responsible for the crisis.

This man abandoned his “better angels” two years ago, if not before.

you and the rest of the GOP started the crisis and now with the idiot as president it has grown over your heads.

The entire GOP is in crisis. If they don't get it fixed they will soon follow the Whig Party into oblivion.

Hatch and Flake are crying because they had No influence in the election of Trump. The RINO party is DEAD!

How is he third in line?

Its in crisis because they created the crisis, they are incompetent for the most part. They have failed Americans and Trump has made that transparent to America. Our problems are self made by the leadership we trusted, not any President.

Morning_Joe Term limits.

Morning_Joe hypocrisy much from OrrinHatch who claims he does not care if Trump did anything illegal, spare me, GoodRiddance

Morning_Joe Should be better now that your leaving, just fifty more to go.

Thanks for helping out there buddy. See ya.

Thanks to you and your cronies.

Morning_Joe Because of men like you, Hatch. Buh bye.

Morning_Joe Man, flicking match on pile of gas-soaked rags, declares nation has an arson problem

Morning_Joe GOOD RIDDANCE!

I only thought prequel meme when I read this...

That’s because the GOP is in charge. Are Mitch and Orrin being investigated?

Go home skeletor!

Morning_Joe Bye bye - go retire...

And a good part of the reason for that is you senorrinhatch

Can I help you to the door, gramps?

What did he do to stop it?

senorrinhatch OrrinHatch The Corrupt Treasonist Republican Party has put the Entire Country at Risk by not holding our Corrupt Serial Lying Russian Traitor President realDonaldTrump Accountable for his Crimes.

Let's see: - Our 1 goal is to make Obama a 1 term President - Merrick Garland - Bret Kavanaugh - Russian election conspiracy - Ripping children from parents at border - Giving MbS a pass on butchering a journalist All on your watch, Mr Hatch. senorrinhatch

Frankenstien warns of dangers of frankenstiens monster

Yeah. He was the danger

Morning_Joe So funny coming from a man who helped create that partisanship.

To which senator hatch said he didn't care.

Morning_Joe OrrinHatch That’s true and the GOP is to blame. Tell your buddy SenMajLdr to stop acting like a treason turtle and do his forking job.

Morning_Joe no SH*T and guess WHO took it there? enemywithin

Bye bye radical dinosaur. You dismissed evidence .

Says Captain Obvious and also one of the Titanic captains who “led” us to this point. Get out of the way and let the younger generation fix things. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It is only due to its leadership!! No one else! The leaders now are corrupt!!

Hatch has always been a hypocrite. He criticized Clinton during his impeachment, but is totally fine with realDonaldTrump breaking laws. Zero credibility for this old timer!

Morning_Joe Because she’s me honest people may get elected? Because some non white men may represent actual people?

And he and his party are of course COMPLETELY innocent.

Orin created this mess. He misses the good old days when they could do shady shit and get away with it. In the words of his favorite sumpreme court justice Kavenaugh “what goes around comes around”.

Morning_Joe ....of his creation, in part at least. No loss. Bye.

The senate will be a better place without senator hatch, a racist hypocrite who embarrassed his state and his faith.

Morning_Joe It’s ideologues like Hatch that have done this to the Senate.

Morning_Joe

But he failed to apologize for the crisis he helped to create.

Good riddens!

Morning_Joe Old angry white man. Over stayers his time. Bye Felicia

Morning_Joe Goodbye Orrin Hatch you need to go

Orin hatch is also part of the problem! When he disregards rule of law and says that he does not care what President does?

senorrinhatch GOP SenatorCollins JohnCornyn senrobportman America is in crisis as long as these corrupt and cowardly GOP Senators abdicate their duty to hold a criminal POTUS accountable. Trump is a lifelong self serving criminal... ignoring that fact doesn’t change it.

This asshat is the poster child for why we must have term limits.

Morning_Joe good riddance

This is just one of America’s problems for the last 40 years and now that it’s leaving,this country is already better off

'The house is on fire!', says man holding gas can and matches.

Term limits.

Morning_Joe This guy is just an Old Hypocrite

Glad to see you go

oh OrrinHatch - You have been a nasty influence in that august body. You are a corrosive misogynist and it is good you are gone. God- I hope Romney doesn't resemble you for a moment.

Morning_Joe Senator Hatch no one will be at your funeral like Senator McCain, because you like many of the GOP are complicit in covering for the Crime family in the WH.

Let's hope Trump doesn't turn Caesar on us and abolish the power of the legislative bodies.

Don’t let the screen door hit ya where the good lord split ya

Crisis created by people like him

Morning_Joe I am so glad we have people who have a firm grasp on the obvious and tells the world about the same. I don’t think it could survive otherwise.

Morning_Joe And that crisis is now leaving.

Morning_Joe

Morning_Joe The Senate is not in crisis, the GOP is in 2020

Yay the swamp is being breached

senorrinhatch Could be because of you and others like you that are defenders of this corrupt, immoral president

Morning_Joe The crisp will be diminished once he’s gone.

Morning_Joe “I Don’t Care”

Morning_Joe Says the guy who helped cause the crisis by enabling criminal trump. senorrinhatch is a disgrace.

Here, here!!!

Third in line to the presidency would be the speaker of the house, following the President and Vice President.

Morning_Joe Adios MoFo

84 years old and still working. The government needs age restrictions.

Thanks solely to trump!!!

Morning_Joe If only you were in position to do something about it for the past 2 years ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Morning_Joe Because of him and others like him. Hypocrisy

This guy can’t be gone soon enough

mbretttx This Senator thinks the President is above the law... poor guy!

And he was definitely not part of the solution, was he?

The Senate is better for his absence. Yes, its in crisis and he shoulders blame too.

Morning_Joe Hatch is a large reason why the Senate is in the shape it is in. His words ring hollow!

Morning_Joe The hypocrisy .... all said with a straight face .... is astounding.

Morning_Joe Go home Orin. Let a new generation lead.

Morning_Joe Alzheimers has many faces

Morning_Joe This speech which I believe is valid would have been much more credible if he didn’t say the other day he didn’t care that the president committed crimes and conspired with Russia to win the election.

Morning_Joe Says the guy who played a huge role in creating the crisis.

A crisis that he has helped by putting his party before his country and putting our very democracy at risk. He will not be remembered favorably.

He’s the reason why it’s in crisis.

Morning_Joe 'And the Oscar goes to...'

Morning_Joe senorrinhatch OrrinHatch and you need to take some of the responsibility for it. You stood by and let trump be trump and for that your legacy is tarnished. Make no mistake about it, your reputation is tarnished.

I hope he knew about the crisis he provoked what a legacy

Morning_Joe He helped create the crisis...supported it all along the way

Good riddance to someone I used to admire but you compromised your principles for this unfit POTUS and are a disgrace. You are no John McCain.

Morning_Joe lol, he is the cause of it

When it comes to stopping the Senate from becoming a decisive institution, Senator Hatch is a better preacher than a practicer.

This is the senator that said he did care if Donald has broken the Law.. You should quiet now that you have the opportunity before you'll see what is coming after New Year

Morning_Joe Hatch has been a thorn in our side and a nasty bastard since the 80's. Good riddance Orrin!

It is time for HouseGOP and SenateGOP to abandon their destructive, obstructive stance, work to compromise positions with the Dems to represent the people not realDonaldTrump. His vitriolic tantrums and demands can be muted by working together. That will MakeAmericaGreatAgain

Morning_Joe The senate is in much better shape now that this fool is leaving!

Morning_Joe This is the same man that JUST said that he doesn’t care about the mounting charges against Donald Trump. Which Orrin Hatch are we supposed to believe?

Morning_Joe Hatch is crisis, by nature. Park his wheelchair.

Morning_Joe The senate senility is the crisis.

Time to go Oren you have been here to long and you bring no values or morals to our government!

Morning_Joe The only thing I want to hear from this man is an apology to the people of the USA for defending Trump. Otherwise good riddance.

He’s part of the problem. He said, on national television, he didn’t care of the president committed a felony. His job is to be a check on the president. He’s failed. The man who is 3rd in line to the presidency, failed his core responsibility. I’m glad he’s gone.

Morning_Joe Proof👇🏻that BorrinOrrin 👎🏻OrrinHatch🧓🏻 (as we all called him when I was attending the 👏🏻💞UUtah🎓) is now WELL PAST his “Senate 🇺🇸 Expiration Date.” 👀 Utah 🏜 deserves FAR BETTER than 👎🏻BorrinOrrin🤡 👎🏻OrrinHatch🤡 and the 👹EVIL 👎🏻MikeLee👹

Morning_Joe Age limits are needed in both houses and executive branch. 75 should be the limit to serve

Morning_Joe Best advertising for term limits.

Can he just go home and stay there

Morning_Joe This mod. R agrees: The Senate (and House, frankly) are in crisis. However, Sen. Hatch doesn’t help by noting Dems unfairly badger DJT before changing to “I don’t care” when interviewed about probable and serious DJT campaign finance violation brought by SDNY. CountryOverParty

Morning_Joe OrrinHatch fails to see the elephant in the room.

BETTER: set term limits for mbrs of congress and s.court ..congress...max of 10 yrs, must retire by age 70. ..s.court.... must retire by ago 70.

Morning_Joe You want to see a institution in crisis, check out The Weekly Standard....looks like Billy’s swampy, never Trump rag is going down in flames this week....the Weakly Standard

OrrinHatch is as much at fault as anybody. He destroyed his legacy by pandering like a sycophant to Trump. Good riddance.

OrrinHatch is part of the cancer that is killing the US. He has no one to blame but himself. Go away Orrin. You won't be missed.

Morning_Joe Said the pot.

Morning_Joe The hypocrisy of the GOP knows no bounds !

And you sir are a big reason for that crisis. Hope you get a kidney stone on the first day of retirement.

Morning_Joe He has done his part to make it that way. Good riddance.

Morning_Joe Dont let the door hit you on the way out Orin...

Morning_Joe How much crap is coming out of DC that I completely missed the fact that Hatch is “outgoing”? And I was aware of Romney “incoming”.

Morning_Joe No shit, Orrin, and scofflaws like you are the reason.

Morning_Joe I am so sick of this old fart...

Morning_Joe That’s what happens when you let the roaches take control.

Morning_Joe No one has played a greater role in fostering partisan divisions in the Senate than Mitch McConnell. Did Hatch denounce Mitch in this speech?

Morning_Joe This is LAUGHABLE coming from one of the partisans who has CAUSED the crisis. Good riddance, Mr. Hatch.

Go away. Please. W/o retirement benefits. Go away now.

Morning_Joe Senator Hatch's awareness of the crisis stands in stark contrast to his obstruction of it's imminently needed Intervention.

Morning_Joe What he is really bemoaning is that modern technology has increased the information readily and immediately available to the public that exposes the corruption of Congress. Things were better for him when nobody knew what he was doing. Hates being accountable.

Morning_Joe 'That house is on fire,' said the arsonist with a box of matches in his hand.

Yes it is but will start to recover as soon as you’re gone!

Morning_Joe Senator completely misses toilet then laments that there is 💩 on the floor.

Morning_Joe I feel sorry for any woman in his life. Saw him for exactly the sexist dinosaur he is during cavanaugh bs.

Morning_Joe

onecentau1 From the man who just said 'I don't care if trump committed crimes'

Morning_Joe Bye bish

Morning_Joe Good riddance!

Morning_Joe The Senate is in crisis? WTF? Cocaine Mitch & the rest of those bought off Oligarch slaves are enabling the deconstrution of our major institutions by enabling Trump. At what point do the American ppl wake up & stop enabling the Rich to Rule and destroy what little is left?

Morning_Joe Under your watch

Morning_Joe And he is one of those responsible for that.

Morning_Joe Wait, is this the same guy who said he didn't care about possible crimes by The Pres?

Morning_Joe A crisis you helped create by supporting your pal little donny

Morning_Joe Hatch has always been an opportunist. He is his biggest priority

Morning_Joe Good riddance. You and your kind are the problem.

Morning_Joe Claims one of the biggest problems the senate has ever had.

He should have left before he became senile. If your representative has been in office longer that 8 yeas, vote for someone new. With lobbyists dangling pretty perks, it doesn't take long to lure them to the dark side.

No thanks to you, Orrin.

“The Senate, as an institution, is in crisis.... because of men like me”. There fixed it!

Wrong. Speaker of the House is 3rd in line. Orrin Hatch isn't even in line at all. (How can NBC get this so wrong?)

Bye Felicia, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Although that would be funny as hell and fitting!

Yes it is. Because the day BarackObama was elected, the GOP chose party over country, with MitchMcConnell and his corrosive brand of partisan politics destroying what credibility the Senate once had. And the sycophantic loyalty to Trump has put the last nail in the coffin.

Yes it is because of all the old staunch men like him that need to go away

There is one less worry about Congress now that Hatch is leaving. If anyone needs proof, watch the Anita Hill proceedings. He hasn't changed.

Good luck, good riddance.

Less so after you’re gone, gramps.

Good riddance

It's all The crimes they're covering and probably doing themselves ... follow the money.. run those tax returns the republicans are old greedy racists

He is absolutely right. The senate and congress is infected by a disease it’s called liberalism. realDonaldTrump cnn MSNBC FoxNews

Thanks to the GOP. Who thinks it’s their way or no way.

LOL

The senate is in crisis because there are no term limits, he is literally the problem

It is squarely because the GOP has adopted a racist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic, liar as their leader, who has lead them astray from their core values. As the late great Senator John McCain would say, 'WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT!'

The Republicans are the primary cause of this situation. Maybe he should have resisted it. He definitely should have held Trump accountable.

Dear Congress, There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!

A crisis of their own making to be clear.

Bye!

Orrin Hatch said that he doesn't care if the president commited a crime or not. He should be remembered for that.

He should know he put it there.

Orin is covering for trump and the SenateGOP crimes. He is living in the 60's when rich old white guys got away with crimes because they had money. Nothing more than an outdated decrepit white man, long past his days.

Well he is undoubtedly qualified to say this.

....and I helped put it there by my complacency....

The republicans have themselves to thank for that 🤔

Yes you shoulder quite a bit of that blame!

orrin hatch is so old he farts dust! OrrinHatch

Can't really take Senator Hatch seriously giving his history of partisan politics, not exactly a McCain or Kennedy is he.

THE IRONY

Farewell should been years ago.

The senate is useless. We need a Caesar to teach them how to behave.

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