Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is retiring at the end of this year, and now at the end stage of his political career, he has reached the point where he doesn't mind calling people dumb-asses during speeches.
Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, Hatch brought up the Affordable Care Act, saying Republicans "finally did away with the individual mandate tax that was established under that wonderful bill called ObamaCare. Now, if you didn't catch on, I was being very sarcastic. That was the stupidest, dumb-ass bill that I've ever seen." He wasn't done. "Some of you may have loved it," Hatch continued. "If you do, you are one of the stupidest, dumb-ass people I've ever met. And there are a lot of them up there on Capitol Hill from time to time."
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