Kos: Orrin Hatch compares Roberts to Jesus

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Kos posted this from a transcript of an interview Hatch gave to Fox:

http://www.dailykos.com/

I think senators can ask any questions they want. I've said, no matter how dumb the question may be. But the, the nominee doesn't have to answer them and he should not, under the canons of judicial ethics, he should not answer questions on any issue that possibly would come before the Supreme Court. Otherwise, he would be foretelling how he would vote on those issues and then they would hold that against him. So it's a little bit like Biblical Pharisees, you know, who basically are always trying to undermine Jesus Christ, you know, it goes on the same way. If they can catch him in something, they can then criticize -- and the outside groups will go berserk. And that's that what drives the People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. They're against any Republican. We knew that just no matter who it was -- it could be the greatest person in the world, and Roberts is, is that -- they would come out against him.

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1. k

[bemildred]

2. Seems a bit defensive, eh? I wonder why? nt

[gratuitous]

3. So Hatch is saying that nominees shouldn't be questioned?

Because when he was on the Senate Judiciary Committee under Clinton, that certainly wasn't his philosophy. He and his political cronies came up with all sorts of new and innovative ways to deny court nominees from being considered or having their nomination come to a floor vote.

Hatch is such a flaming hypocrite.

[Lord_StarFyre]

4. OK, that Proves it

...Hatch is a fallen Mormon... He's obviously High!

Isn't there some law about Government Employees being required to undergo a Drug Screen if there are complaints about them acting as if they are on Drugs?

BTW, Can we possibly include pResident dumbshitula in that drug screen?

[delete_bush]

5. Don't Mormons consider Jesus and Satan

to be brothers? Maybe he confused the two.

[KLF44]

6. Orrin Hatch the

padded room is ready for you!

[gizmo1979]

7. Repugs would NEVER nominate Jesus

he was a far left liberal.

[Booster]

10. Ain't that the truth? They would put Jesus in jail.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Is this an inversion of Godwin's Law?

It should be enforced, if so.

[NoPasaran]

9. I've never gotten Hatch

For decades I've heard him described as one of the deeper thinkers on the repug side but, going back to the Iran-Contra hearings I have never been able to detect even a spark of intellectual curiosity behind those glazed zombie eyes and monotone voice. I've known dogs with deeper intellects than Orrin Hatch.