Utah Republican Orrin Hatch called bullcrap on Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown last week. The Senate Finance Committee lion tore into Brown for spewing that the Republican tax plan to transfer a trillion dollars to the rich was in reality a Republican tax plan to transfer a trillion dollars to the rich.

I got my first dose of Hatch during the wall-to-wall coverage of the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, George H.W. Bushs Supreme Court nominee.