to his home state. and i think orrin hatch has made a point of showing his constituents in utah. he still wants to be there. he wants to be in the senate so he ll say anything he has to stay in washington. at least he s telling us he still cares, he s very in touch with his voters, while luger was very the club for growth was kind of the first one who would primary incumbents who they consider to be rhinos and not far enough to the right and hatch moved so that he eventually got tea party express, club four growth, sarah palin all to line up behind him to avoid the fate of some of these colleagues. you can make two very interesting bookends here about the story of orrin hatch s career, or the study of moderate conservativism. he came in in 1976 who was written off and ran as a reagan
my colleagues in introducing the health equity and access reform today act of 1993. this is our health care bill, mr. president, presented on behalf of the republican senate to the health care tax force and the co sponsors of the legislation are senators dole, bond, hatfield, bennett, hatch, danforth, brown, gordon, simpson, stevens, cohen. senator warner, spectser, luger. to start, i want to thank the distinguished republican leader senator dole for his vision in directing the establishment of a senate republican health care task force in 1990. think of it, over three years
slavery. but they knew what they were there for, to create a nation. sometimes today tseems like it s all about winning, not compromising. let s not even think about it. sean: we had a gentleman who beat mr. luger, and his first statement is, i am not going to compromise anything. how s it going to work. sean: you say something so amazing about our founders and framers that are often beaten up by people today. yeah. sean: i thought what was amazing is that they put in place a system to right wrongs, correct injustices and history has, i think, proven them right. i think you are agreeing with me. i fully agree with you. it s a wonderful system t. takes time sometimes. have you to get a consensus from the people. the only way you get a consensus to move forward is for there to be compromise to build a consensus. we are not doing enough of that. let s have a drink, let s play poker tip o neill and reagan.
it took us 200 years to resolve slavery. but they knew what they were there for, to create a nation. sometimes today tseems like it s all about winning, not compromising. let s not even think about it. sean: we had a gentleman who beat mr. luger, and his first statement is, i am not going to compromise anything. how s it going to work. sean: you say something so amazing about our founders and framers that are often beaten up by people today. yeah. sean: i thought what was amazing is that they put in place a system to right wrongs, correct injustices and history has, i think, proven them right. i think you are agreeing with me. i fully agree with you. it s a wonderful system t. takes time sometimes. have you to get a consensus from the people. the only way you get a consensus to move forward is for there to be compromise to build a consensus. we are not doing enough of that. let s have a drink, let s play poker tip o neill and reagan.
that was the cbs steve kroft talking to grover back in november. since then incumbent dick lugar faced a primary challenger, his name was richard murdoch. he was one of those republicans that refused to sign the pledge and he endorsed murdoch. last week luger was defeated in the indiana senate primary. he only endorsed him a week before the primary. his no-taxes pledge gets a public relations boost. republicans become more afraid of it. it becomes more powerful. that grover norquist plenlgs says not only can you not raise a tax rate, but even if you close a tax loophole, that money can t go to the deficit. it has to go back into a tax cut or else he will consider that a tax hike. for years and years he was an