Kicked In The Teeth

by digby

Oh my Goodness, somebody has his tight whiteys twisted in a great big knot:

“I’m supported by people all over the health care system,” Hatch said, “including doctors, including hospitals, including insurers, including liberal people, conservative people and moderate people. Everybody knows how much money you have to raise to run for the Senate.” Then Hatch turned his fury to MoveOn and George Soros. “MoveOn.org is a scurrilous organization,” he said. “It’s funded by George Soros. He’s about as left wing as you can find in this country. And they’re up to just one thing, and that is to smear good people. And frankly, they’re not gonna smear me without getting kicked in the teeth by me.”

What did Move-On have the nerve to do? They protested outside his office in Salt Lake City with signs that said he was in the pockets of the insurance companies. He doesn’t like that.

Of course, he didn’t say too much about this:

The crowd repeatedly booed Utah’s senators, Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, for being part of the problem and chastised Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. for not sending back $1.6 billion of stimulus money the state is expected to receive.

Hatch said in a statement that he shares the protesters’ outrage. Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who is considering challenging Bennett for his Senate seat, said Utahns don’t need government “wiping our noses and putting Band-Aids on our boo-boos.”

And he didn’t complain about these guys picketing his office or the fact that the Tea Parties are an astroturf movement funded by wealthy Republicans. Neither does he have a problem with the teabaggers smearing Obama as a socialist Hitler.

It seems that what really bothers Orrin Hatch is the fact that Move-On protesters brought up the fact that he is a bought and sold corporate lackey. Boo hoo.

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