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Hatch

“She’s still a senator until the end of this year and, regardless, she’s our friend,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) of Utah after a Republican caucus met to vote on the issue.

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It isn't just Hatch. The Senate is a club, but it was meant to be. Repeal the 17th and you lose the populist slant that currently poisons the Senate.

Here's DeMint's hit (reformatted for clarity):

Contrast that with the record of the establishment candidates.

When it became clear Charlie Crist would lose to Marco Rubio in Florida's Senate race, Crist bolted the GOP and decided to run as an independent.

When Arlen Specter saw he would lose to Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania's Senate race, he became a Democrat.

And, after losing the GOP nomination in Alaska, Murkowski is running as an independent write-in candidate.

And yet, we are told that it is the Tea Party that is dividing the GOP and threatening party unity.

The RINOs are behaving just like we always thought they would. They're power mad politicians through and through. It never was about principles, that's why they're RINOs. They represent the statist Left, not the liberty loving Right.