Of all the posturing over Wisconsin yesterday, no one laid it on the line quite like Sen. Orrin “I’ve been a tea partier since Boston” Hatch (R-UT). “This is not the way public servants should behave,” Hatch scolded, chiming in on an issue in which he has no apparent stake other than to burnish his tea party cred and avoid getting primaried in 2012.

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