{"id":51337,"date":"2022-04-24T01:33:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T01:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51337"},"modified":"2022-04-24T01:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T01:33:04","slug":"hatchs-death-saddens-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51337","title":{"rendered":"Hatch&#8217;s death saddens me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hatchorrin_100418gn_lead-3.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51342\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hatchorrin_100418gn_lead-3-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hatchorrin_100418gn_lead-3-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hatchorrin_100418gn_lead-3-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hatchorrin_100418gn_lead-3.webp 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A strange sense of sadness overtook me this evening as I learned of the death of the longest-serving Republican U.S. senator, Orrin Hatch of Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I so sad? I think it is because Hatch, who left the Senate in 2018, embodied a gentler time in American politics. Did I agree with his policy views? Hah! Not even close! Hardly ever!<\/p>\n<p>However, this conservative lawmaker &#8212; whose name appears on hundreds of pieces of legislation that became law &#8212; exemplified the ability to work with Democrats. He knew how to find common ground, where to look for it and how to craft it into meaningful legislation.<\/p>\n<p>He said this in his farewell address to the Senate: &#8220;The last several years I have seen the abandonment of regular order \u2026 Gridlock is the new norm. And like the humidity here, partisanship permeates everything we do, &#8230; All the evidence points to an unsettling truth: The Senate, as an institution, is in crisis, or at least may be in crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, it&#8217;s in crisis, all right. It is in crisis because the Senate has turned into a pit of vipers, along with the House, with members of both chambers expressing outright fear of working with members of the other party.<\/p>\n<p>That is nothing close to the &#8220;regular order&#8221; that Hatch and other senators cherished.<\/p>\n<p>He was a principled conservative, but he was a gentleman, too.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the sadness at his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange sense of sadness overtook me this evening as I learned of the death of the longest-serving Republican U.S. senator, Orrin Hatch of Utah. Why am I so sad? I think it is because Hatch, who left the Senate in 2018, embodied a gentler time in American politics. Did I agree with his policy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hatch&#8217;s death saddens me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1941,3456,5051],"class_list":["post-51337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gop","tag-orrin-hatch","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51343,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51337\/revisions\/51343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}