GOP senators circle wagons round Hatch (re: Memogate)

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GOP senators circle wagons round Hatch
Top conservatives tell their ideological allies to hold fire
By Alexander Bolton



Three top Senate conservatives have told GOP conservative groups to lay off Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who helped trigger a controversial investigation into leaked Democratic Judiciary Committee documents.

Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), both members of the Judiciary panel, personally delivered that message to a group of nearly 20 conservative leaders last week. Senate Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) also briefly attended the meeting on Capitol Hill.

The 90-minute session grew heated at times, as the visiting conservative leaders repeatedly interrupted the senators and questioned their handling of the memo controversy.


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After a brief thaw, relations have turned sour in recent months as conservatives from Rush Limbaugh to Paul Weyrich, head of the conservative Free Congress Foundation, have lambasted Hatch’s handling of the investigation, which they claim has diverted attention from what conservatives see as a pattern of Democratic corruption.



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http://www.thehill.com/news/021804/hatch.aspx

[Skittles]

1. rebublicans talking about "Democratic corrupton" ??????

PRICELESS

[Beetwasher]

2. It's Real Mess

They're going out of their minds. The real conservatives realize that a serious crime was committed. The Bushbots don't care. Dem corruption indeed. "So what if we committed a felony by breaking into the Dems confidential memos and computer files! They were strategizing against us!"

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Republicans mutate more and more into Nazis every day.

What scares me is how many millions of Americans are lulled into sleep by the pied pipers of Jesus