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--your humble Admin/Mod "Shmoo" (aka "independentmusician" of the band Electric Gypsy

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Just for fun--it'll soon be gone--we haven't talked about our friend Hatch very much lately, so just so he doesn't think we've forgotten him, here's an article I found. It's completely off-topic (so I put it here where Shmoo can kill it), except that I felt an urge to do some Hatch-bashing today.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2719582/ci_2719567

Reid blasts Hatch, tries to reassure Utah Dems

"I can't imagine how Orrin Hatch can keep a straight face," Reid told The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board. "I don't know how, within the framework of intellectual honesty, he can say the things he does."

Couldn't we all have told him that??