Sen. Hatch = Pants On Fire
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
For
Immediate Release February 21,
2006
Sen. Hatch = Pants On
Fire
Utah Senior
Senator Fibs to GOP Luncheon
Crowd
ST GEORGE, UT – Acting
in his role of White House Head Cheerleader,
Hatch stated, at
the invitation only event the
following:
"Nobody denies
that
he [Hussein] was supporting
al-Qaida [sic]." In a
clear attack on Democrats, Hatch added, "Well,
I shouldn't say nobody.
Nobody with brains." [The
Spectrum, FEB 19, 2006]
Utah State
Democratic
Party Chair Wayne Holland, Jr. released the
following statement today in
reaction to Senator Hatch’s
statement:
“Normally, to
react to Senator Hatch’s comments last
Saturday, we’d use words like ‘misspoke’ or
‘mistakenly stated”, but this time,
we just can’t.
“Senator Hatch, a
member of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, no less, stood in front of crowd of
people and made a statement, a
statement that is just not true, in what seems
to be an attempt to mislead and
misinform the people of
“This is not leadership. This is not
honesty. This seems
nothing more than dirty politics and negative
messaging. This is insulting to
the people of