SENATOR ORRIN HATCH DEFINES "SHOT THEIR WAD"

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, in an interview with Politico, was detailing Republican lawmakers’ focus on tax reform following the failure of their health care efforts. He said, “We’re not going back to health care. We’re in tax now. As far as I’m concerned, they shot their wad on health care and that’s the way it is. I’m sick of it.” The internet – those with naughty minds, anyway – picked up on his use of the phrase “shot their wad”. In response to the blowback (*!), Hatch’s office clarified his comments by tweeting the original definition of “wad”, which came about during the Civil War when shooters would have to use a small wad of cloth or felt or cardboard, to hold the gunpowder in their rifles. Once they fired the gun they would have “shot their wad” and had to reload.
* And, worst of all, cuddle for 20 minutes.
* And Orrin Hatch would know, because he was around during the Civil War.
* Well, they did leave a pretty big mess on the health care bill.
* I don’t want to think of any of those political people shooting their wad.
* And THAT is the definition of Shooting One’s Wad, straight from the Big O, Orrin Hatch.
* Next, Senator Mitch McConnell explains “Kentucky Klondike Bar”.