It’s Time for Hatch to Go
Sen. Orrin Hatch is in front of the camera, again. This time he’s criticizing one-party control of both houses of Congress and the White House (“Hatch on health care reform: ‘It is enough to make you barf,’” Tribune , Dec. 6). Where was his concern during the six years his party controlled both houses and the White House and President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were running the bus into the ditch? Where was his concern when the Bush administration was shredding the Constitution in the name of national security?
Where was his concern when Bush couldn’t find the weapons of mass destruction, even as he searched the Oval Office for them in an attempt at humor. Why doesn’t Hatch express to those who lost family in Iraq how bad he feels now that the facts are irrefutable: Iraq was a war of choice, packaged and sold by individuals who wrapped themselves in the American flag and questioned the patriotism of those who saw things differently?
It’s time for Sen. Hatch to go, just as he said it was time for Sen. Frank Moss to go when Hatch ran against him all those years ago.
Alan Peterson
Mayfield