Uh, excuse me?

On MSNBC this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell asked Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) about a MoveOn-organized protest outside his Salt Lake City office, where protesters criticized Hatch for allegedly being beholden to the insurance industry because it donated a lot of money to his past campaigns.
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"MoveOn.org is a scurrilous organization," he said. "It's funded by George Soros. He's about as left wing as you can find in this country. And they're up to just one thing, and that is to smear good people. And frankly, they're not gonna smear me without getting kicked in the teeth by me."

Yikes.

Hatch's reaction reveals how sensitive some members of the Senate are to criticism - heaven forbid some of the nearly 23,000 MoveOn members who count themselves as Hatch's constituents might peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights.

And such a violent threat from the same man who wrote loving songs about his friend Ted Kennedy.