Orrin's Teddy
Has the world gone crazy?Sen. Orrin Hatch, who recently got trashed by a fellow Utah Republican state senator, gets high praise in the Boston Globe from a liberal columnist.
In the middle of a Kevin Cullen column deifying none other than Tip O'Neill, Utah's own patron saint's name pops up:
Imagine that, Utah, Orrin's only a human being.Whenever I hear right-wingers attack Ted Kennedy the person, as opposed to Ted Kennedy the politician, I want to ask them to explain why a pair of senators named Orrin Hatch and Sam Brownback are among those praying most fervently for Kennedy right now. Hatch and Brownback are as politically to the right as Kennedy is to the left. But they love Ted Kennedy like a brother.
Whatever you think of Hatch and Brownback as politicians, they are men of intellect and principle. When they look at Teddy, they don't see a liberal bogeyman, they see a friend who happens to be a lefty. Years ago, I asked Kennedy why he liked a couple of guys from Utah and Kansas who are his ideological opposite.
"They're terrific human beings," he replied.
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