Retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch made comments last week that, if taken literally, described fellow Republican Mitt Romney, who wants to succeed him, as “one of the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met.”
Hatch was referring to supporters of the individual mandate in the Obamacare health care plan. Well, when Romney was the governor of Massachusetts, he signed a sweeping health reform bill that included — yep — an individual mandate.
The idea, as in Obamacare, was to keep the insured pool large enough that a small population of covered people didn’t carry the weight for everyone else.