Most-Senior GOP US Senator Trashes ‘Dumb-Ass Liberals’ And Progressives As ‘Blunderheads’

America’s most-senior Republican U.S. Senator today addressed a conservative group of lawyers and attacked liberals, progressives, and Democrats left and right.

Claiming the ultra-conservative Federalist Society isn’t “some right-wing cabal,” U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch Friday afternoon spoke for about 45 minutes and took every opportunity he could to slam progressives, liberals, and Democrats. “I get a big kick out of them using the word ‘progressive,'” Sen. Hatch told his audience. “My gosh, they’re just straight old dumb-ass liberals anyway.” The crowd laughed loudly.

Hatch, who is 80, also spoke about the filibuster. Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last year changed the rules for most nominations to a simple-majority. 

“We should not return to the old rule. We should teach those blunderheads that they made a big mistake. And we have the votes to stop bad judges if we want to,” the Utah conservative said.

The Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel reports that “Hatch’s present enthusiasm for the 51-vote rule contrasts with his stance before the election, when it wasn’t clear whether Republicans would remain in the minority next year. In September, he told Politico that Congress ‘should get it back to where it was.'”

Sen. Hatch also told the audience that progressives are “good at scaring people,” but “they’re not good at governing.”

The Federalist Society, to which Hatch said he’s belonged for decades, also boasts as its members Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Chief Justice John Roberts. Hatch noted he’s good friends with the first three. It advocates for Scalia’s controversial view of the Constitution as not a living document but one whose words are to be interpreted in the context of the time of the Founding Fathers.

Speaking about the 2016 election, Hatch said Republicans will win the White House, and, “we will give [Democrats] a taste of their own medicine.”

Earlier this year, Hatch lamented, “it’s a portent of the future that sooner or later gay marriage is probably going to be approved by the Supreme Court of the United States, certainly as the people in this country move towards it, especially young people.”

Senator Hatch has served in the U.S. Senate since 1977, despite defeating his Democratic opponent in 1976 by reportedly stating, “What do you call a Senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home.”

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Hat tip: Raw Story