Republican Senator loses memory/mind

Here's Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) speaking on the Senate floor on Friday:

This will become one more example of the arrogance of power being exerted since the Democrats secured a 60-vote majority in the United States Senate and took over the House and the White House. I dream some day of having the Republicans have 60 votes. I’ll tell you one thing, I think we would finally have the total responsibility to get this country under control and I believe we would. But we never come close to that. There are essentially no checks and balances found in Washington today just an arrogance of power with one party ramming through unpopular and devastating proposals one after the other.

Clearly Sen. Hatch has forgotten those halcyon years leading up to 2006, when there was no deficit, employment, prosperity and healthcare were universal, phones were untapped, 9/11 had been prevented, the relief operation post-Hurricane Katrina had been a sparkling success, the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was unheard-of, habeas corpus was not under threat, the Supreme Court was a wise and politically unbiased independent body, there were no wars, and pigs flew.