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Orrin Hatch on Monday for his inconsistent comments about the nonpartisan financial estimates generated by the Congressional Budget Office. In short, Hatch has said CBO is spot on when the analysis backs up his position and way off when it doesn't. 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One of the Carbon County residents who staked out the airport to see the president depart said that she was told that Vice President Dick Cheney was also with the group. It turns out he wasn't. And that's probably best for the safety of everyone else involved.However, we're told that former Secretary";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/6765618081132108766/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=6765618081132108766";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/6765618081132108766";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/6765618081132108766";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/10/false-cheney-alarm.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"2";}}i:3;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-4575464821297864441";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-09-17T12:06:00.000-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-09-17T12:08:26.536-06:00";s:5:"title";s:35:"This just in -- McCain wins in Utah";s:7:"summary";s:397:"Election watchers may have been surprised to learn that President Barack Obama suffered a 260,000-plus-vote defeat in Utah to John McCain during this week's primary in the race for, uh, president.It's the gospel truth, according the Salt Lake County Clerk's Web site, which contained a link Tuesday night to the state's ballot results for electoral happenings across Utah.Trouble was, the results ";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/4575464821297864441/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=4575464821297864441";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/4575464821297864441";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/4575464821297864441";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/09/this-just-in-mccain-wins-in-utah.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:2:"36";}}i:4;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-8703785294777111950";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-09-15T17:05:00.002-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-09-15T17:19:58.108-06:00";s:5:"title";s:33:"Hatch a no-show in Kennedy memoir";s:7:"summary";s:395:"In his memoir "True Compass" the late Sen. Ted Kennedy gives a somewhat revealing look at his unique life as a member of one of the nations most famous families and as one of the nation's most widely-known politicians.   But not once in 507 pages does he mention his friend Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch.  He wrote about Adolf Hitler, Ho Chi Minh and Jimmy Hoffa. He touched on Martin Luther King, John ";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/8703785294777111950/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=8703785294777111950";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/8703785294777111950";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/8703785294777111950";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/09/hatch-no-show-in-kennedy-memoir.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"2";}}i:5;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-6522250608481121022";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-09-10T21:18:00.001-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-09-10T21:21:10.569-06:00";s:5:"title";s:15:"No More Junkets";s:7:"summary";s:399:"House Speaker Dave Clark, who used to play wide receiver during his days at Brigham Young University, jumped at the chance to catch the Cougars play Oklahoma in Dallas last Saturday.Although the trip was arranged by contract lobbyist Dave Stewart, the speaker says he paid for his plane fare and ticket out of his own pocket.Under the new legislative ethics rules, Clark couldn't have taken a ticket";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/6522250608481121022/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=6522250608481121022";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/6522250608481121022";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/6522250608481121022";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/09/no-more-junkets.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"0";}}i:6;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-8454629864877098208";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-08-28T14:37:00.002-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-08-28T14:41:51.363-06:00";s:5:"title";s:30:"Politics or official business?";s:7:"summary";s:401:" Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch was called away to eulogize Sen. Ted Kennedy at a service in Boston today, so he didn't preside over an economic forum at Utah Valley University as scheduled.But former Republican presidential hopeful Steve Forbes and Sen. 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Wallace Bennett, R-Utah, did not take kindly to a challenge by former U.S. Rep. David King, D-Utah, in 1962, and Bennett carried that grudge for years. King, who lost that race against Bennett, died recently at his home in Maryland.  But records released by the Justice Department this week show that when the former Utah congressman was up for an ambassadorship in 1966, Bennett told ";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/4926149602040837983/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=4926149602040837983";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/4926149602040837983";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/4926149602040837983";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/08/sore-winner.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"0";}}i:8;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-5937358257864560273";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-08-20T18:15:00.002-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-08-20T18:29:04.444-06:00";s:5:"title";s:23:"One more Buttars update";s:7:"summary";s:399:"It's back.Sen. Chris Buttars' lengthy list of questions/criticisms about Democrats' health care reform bill is back on the Republican Senate blog after it was pulled yesterday when this blog and others pointed out that it was strikingly similar to a chain email making the rounds.The is time it has some disclaimers on it, with Buttars acknowledging that some of the references "came from E-mail and";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/5937358257864560273/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=5937358257864560273";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/5937358257864560273";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/5937358257864560273";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/08/one-more-buttars-update.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"2";}}i:9;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-1684968835567066683";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-08-19T19:16:00.004-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-08-19T19:26:24.878-06:00";s:5:"title";s:14:"Buttars update";s:7:"summary";s:397:"The senatesite.com has removed its post on Sen. Chris Buttars' health-reform questions that appear to have actually come from a chain e-mail.Under the heading "move along citizen," the blog of the Republican majority acknowledges that the post of Buttars' list of questions, developed after he "read and re-read the bill several times" may have been a misfire. Though, the blog notes that the GOP ";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/1684968835567066683/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=1684968835567066683";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/1684968835567066683";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/1684968835567066683";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/08/buttars-update.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"0";}}i:10;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-600474031648643815";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-08-19T17:36:00.002-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-08-19T17:43:48.056-06:00";s:5:"title";s:20:"I Share Your Concern";s:7:"summary";s:399:"This morning, Sen. Chris Buttars, Senate chairman of the Legislature's Health and Human Services Interim Committee, kept an audience on the edge of its seat as he ran through a long list of questions that went to his concerns about the congressional health reform bill under consideration. Now you can read all of his 20 questions about the bill here. "I have read and reread this bill several times";s:12:"link_replies";s:148:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/600474031648643815/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=600474031648643815";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/600474031648643815";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/600474031648643815";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/08/i-share-your-concern.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"2";}}i:11;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-7011021671820467216";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-08-19T11:57:00.001-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-08-19T12:00:07.741-06:00";s:5:"title";s:18:"Hatch on uninsured";s:7:"summary";s:394:"Congress is deadlocked over how to deny millions of Americans quality health care, and Utah's own Orrin Hatch is trying to break the stalemate, The Onion reported this week."We have over 40 million people without insurance in this country today, and that is unacceptable," Sen. 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Gives you a warm feeling, kind of like 31 pounds of liquid cocaine. 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Jon Huntsman Jr.'s legacy, I pointed out that in his 4-and-a-half-plus years as governor, he hadn't sat to have his formal portrait painted.It was a tidy little symbol, I thought, of a Huntsman administration that left a handful of items unfinished -- health care, education funding, removing the sales tax on food, and so forth.When I sat down to interview ";s:12:"link_replies";s:150:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/6481889256560251901/comments/defaulthttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20945314&postID=6481889256560251901";s:9:"link_edit";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/6481889256560251901";s:9:"link_self";s:71:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20945314/posts/default/6481889256560251901";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/2009/08/better-late-than-never.htm";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:3:"thr";a:1:{s:5:"total";s:1:"0";}}i:14;a:12:{s:2:"id";s:59:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945314.post-1540263713533752302";s:9:"published";s:29:"2009-08-07T17:16:00.001-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2009-08-07T17:18:46.673-06:00";s:5:"title";s:18:"Save us ... please";s:7:"summary";s:399:"The Salt Lake County Fair is building a fan club one signature at a time.With County Mayor Peter Corroon threatening to cancel the 2010 fair because of budget cuts, the fair board is passing out petitions to change the mayor's mind."People really enjoy it," said fair spokeswoman Aimee Edwards, who signed the petition Friday morning. 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