Sad. Telling. Lyin' Clown. (Orrin Hatch)

[DonViejo]

With the future of health care coverage on the line for millions of Americans with the new Obamacare Supreme Court case, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) struggles to get into line with what everyone knows is a preposterous position on how subsidies are supposed to work under the law (below).

It's vaguely like watching 30s-era Communists try to adjust their positions to the ever-evolving party line.

— Josh Marshall

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Top GOP Senator Struggles To Explain His Changed View Of ACA Subsidies

WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee gave a speech Monday in which he tried to explain apparent discrepancies in his position about the validity of Obamacare tax subsidies on the federal exchange.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments next week in King v. Burwell, a challenge to the validity of Obamacare's federal tax subsidies. At issue is what the statute says about the subsidies, and what Congress intended when it passed the signature legislation of President Barack Obama's first term. If the Supreme Court were to invalidate the subsidies, it would undermine a key element of the financing for Obamacare's coverage expansion.

"Lacking any credible textual basis for their position," Sen. Orrin Hatch (UT) said at the conservative Heritage Foundation, "the president and his supporters have taken instead to twisting my words and the words of other Obamacare opponents to claim that we used to agree with the president's argument" on the subsidies now at stake in a Supreme Court case. "There is no excuse for twisting my words and imputing to me positions I have never held. Not then, not now."

In 2010, Hatch co-wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal which suggested that setting up a state exchange was not a condition for residents to receive Obamacare premium tax credits. He wrote (emphasis added):

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Orin Hatch will only do what his Religious Cult tells him to do.

Utah has real issues when it comes to Health Care and who should or should not get health care. The largest segment of Utah population that is not covered by a affordable Health Care Program are members of his own Religious Cult Group. If some suttle jab against Obama can be done,this Turkey will do it. Once called the most disliked Senator.