ABC News’ David Chalian Reports: It’s not often you will find Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, parroting the words of the San Francisco Chronicle, but he did so with glee on “Politics Live” on ABC News Now Thursday where he also took a shot at his Democratic colleagues for being afraid to pass the stimulus package without Republican support.
Sen. Hatch expressed no confidence in the current bill’s ability to jolt the economy back to health.
“This bill isn’t going to do it and the House bill is even worse,” Hatch said. “Now maybe in conference because once both houses pass bills we’ll go to conference, maybe we can improve it there. But it’s a dog right now. Even the San Francisco Chronicle calls it that and that’s a liberal newspaper.”
Sen. Hatch went on to say that he believed passage of the stimulus bill was assured from the beginning. Instead, Hatch argued, Democrats have been on the hunt for additional votes because they are afraid to own this stimulus bill all on their side of the aisle.
“The fact of the matter is they’ve always had the votes to pass this bill. They’ve been afraid to do it because they know it’s a dog,” said Hatch. “They know it’s gonna cost the taxpayers and arm and a leg. It’s gonna cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for each job created and guess who’s gonna pay for it? It’s gonna be our grandchildren and our great grandchildren and people down the line who really have nothing to do with it today.”
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