Letter: Orrin Hatch has lost his conscience

In 2010 a congressional research outfit rated Sen. Orrin Hatch as fifth most effective Republican to reach across parties to get legislation enacted.His complicity with Ted Kennedy to pass CHIP, Americans with Disabilities Act, special education laws and many other worthy articles of legislation is well known. Rumor had it in the early years that Hatch became a moral support for Kennedy in his struggles with alcohol and marital failure. Why then has Hatch retreated to such opposite extremes in