Orrin Hatch: Heritage Foundation risks ‘losing its clout’

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Sen. Orrin Hatch warned Thursday that the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation is slowly de-legitimizing itself.

“Right now, I think it’s in danger of losing its clout and its power around Washington, D.C.,” Hatch (R-Utah) told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.

Hatch explained that the Heritage Foundation is among conservative organizations that were once dedicated to helping conservative intellectual ideas but are now “losing their reputation because of some of this radicalness.”

“There’s a real question in the minds of many Republicans now, and I’m not just speaking for myself, for a lot of people that [question is]: is Heritage going to go so political that it really doesn’t amount to anything anymore,” Hatch said.

Heritage Foundation spokesman Matthew Streit responded Thursday, insisting that Heritage is “dedicated to policy research of the utmost intellectual integrity.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/heritage-foundation-orrin-hatch-98478.html?hp=lh_b6

Old guard is ramping up the rhetoric. It's amazing how much Heritage has changed in the last decade.

[boutons_deux]

The Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich), Edwin Feulner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Feulner) and Joseph Coors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Coors). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation

Present at the creation of the VRWC.

I was amazed when they hired that Confederate asshole in Jim Dement.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You were amazed because you believe stupid shit. Money talks and there is another 'conspiracy' ie interest group that is asserting control.

One thing that should be obvious to anyone paying attention is that your "1%" is not singleminded in purposes much less all involved in the same 'conspiracy.' You quite literally spew Marxist nonsense. The world is not so simple as bourgeois and proletariat or 1% and 99% or whatever other oversimplifications you try and pigeonhole the world.

[boobie4three]

You were amazed because you believe stupid shit. Money talks and there is another 'conspiracy' ie interest group that is asserting control.

One thing that should be obvious to anyone paying attention is that your "1%" is not singleminded in purposes much less all involved in the same 'conspiracy.' You quite literally spew Marxist nonsense. The world is not so simple as bourgeois and proletariat or 1% and 99% or whatever other oversimplifications you try and pigeonhole the world.

:chestbump