However, as he became more of an incumbant, he became to consider himself more a member of the Senate, adhering to the factions and compromises there, than a Senator from Utah, part of the whole but still a Representative.
Now I will be the first to stand with Burke in his definition of Deliberative Representation as being superior to Pliebisitary Delegate, but something happens to many who serve for a considerable length of time...they become overly aware of the mantle of office. Hatch has let that mantle dilute, pervert, compromise and marginalize what good intentions he held to begin with in his career, and while realizing his emasculation has resorted to bluster and high rhetoric thinking it a replacement for conservative action. He used the term 'pussy-foot' in a speech last week, doesn't that tell the whole story.