It all started with this quote given to Politico:
“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,” Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Wednesday, a day before he outlined his committee’s agenda for the fall.
And then Twitter acted as Twitter does, prompting Hatch’s office to fire out a “jargon lesson” on shooting wads.
do you shoot a wad when you try to make millions of americans suffer by taking away their healthcare y/n https://t.co/x2HTSelxfQ
— Lana Del Raytheon (@LanaDelRaytheon) August 7, 2017
Shoot one’s wad = Civil War term.
Blow one’s wad = porn term.Happy Monday, politics Twitter. https://t.co/FpBz6SGEAF
— Joshua M. Patton (@JoshuaMPatton) August 7, 2017
The best way to prove your reference wasn’t phallic in nature is to say it was actually about old guns https://t.co/dKEOFmrJpW
— Jimmy Donofrio (@JimmyDonofrio) August 7, 2017
You’ll shoot your wad out, kid!
— Jimmy Donofrio (@JimmyDonofrio) August 7, 2017
I would have never learned how to shoot my wad if it weren’t for a Utah GOP senator https://t.co/OJpd1R6nHU
— Bermuda Badding Sr. (@bermuda_sr) August 7, 2017
As few of you were alive during the Civil War, here’s a valuable jargon lesson on “wads” and the shooting of them. https://t.co/dOYvcfgImO pic.twitter.com/wk9aaNb3s2
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) August 7, 2017
Very informative read. Thanks to Senator Hatch, I will now think before I shoot my wad. https://t.co/jL4P4TDg9L
— JaysonTatumsOldSon (@SamSheehan) August 7, 2017