Besieged Pitcher Roger Clemens may get all the headlines, but Sen. Orrin Hatch hit a homerun in today's Washingon Post, denouncing players as whiners and liars. All to argue that further federal scrutiny or regulation of the dietary supplement industry is, well, nonsensical.

The players and their representatives who have spoken so far -- to legislators and the press -- have offered a litany of excuses for how they ended up in the midst of a steroid scandal. The most preposterous, by far, is that dietary supplements are to blame.

Clemens, for example, has repeatedly denied using steroids or human growth hormone. But he acknowledged that he has been injected with vitamin B-12. Tainted B-12 was how Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro explained his failed steroids test in 2005. In his congressional testimony last month, Baseball union chief Donald Fehr blamed not just dietary supplements, but Congress for insufficient regulation.

Why is Orrin so riled up at baseball players and especially at Fehr?

Supplement pill pushers have been very, very good to Hatch. At least as good as baseball has been to Clemens. Their campaign contributions began when Orrin "shepherded" the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act through Congress. The law cut back regulation of the supplement industry and the baloney they print on their labels. And Utah, with 150 manufacturers, from NuSkin to XanGo, is the "Silicon Valley of the Supplement Industry."