• In farewell speech, Orrin Hatch says the Senate is "in crisis"
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/421062-hatch-warns-senate-in-crisis-in-farewell-speech Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said on Wednesday that the Senate is "in crisis" and urged his colleagues to return to "comity" as he formally said goodbye to the chamber he has served in for more than 40 years. Hatch, who is the longest-serving GOP senator, told his colleagues who were in the chamber listening to his speech that he feels "sadness" and that his heart "aches" for when the chamber matched its nickname of the world's greatest deliberative body.  “The last several years I have seen the abandonment of regular order ... Gridlock is the new norm. And like the humidity here, partisanship permeates everything we do," Hatch said.  He added that "limbo is the new name of the game," with both parties trying to outdo the other in going "lower."  "All the evidence points to an unsettling truth: The Senate, as an institution, is in crisis, or at least may be in crisis," Hatch said. Hatch is one of several senators who have talked about the need for bipartisanship from the Senate floor this week. Hatch laid the blame for the country's current political climate on both parties, recalling the rhetoric around the 2017 tax plan or Republican predictions about what would happen if Democrats won the White House, as well as attempts to "own the libs" or "disparage the deplorables."  "If you're looking to convert someone to your side, humiliating them is probably not the best place to start. Who among us would make friends with the same person who would make him a fool?" Hatch asked.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
The classic playbook of American politicians, blame bipartisanship when it sounds nice while consistently feeding into the downward spiral of bipartisanship
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Hatch "All this polarizing insulting language is destroying politics" Also hatch "Trump's doing a great job"
sometimes you really just wish for some almighty force to strike people down for being complete total liars.
Gee, somehow I don't get the feeling that he's being terribly genuine here. You know. What with his constant feeding into the exact problem he's trying to condemn.
Why do ppl keep on mixing partisanship and bipartisanship up lol
Cuz they sound the same, easy mistake to make
Hope he has a miserable rest of his life!
Wow dude that's rude all he did was put two extra letters in front of "partisanship."
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