”In Washington, Senator Hatch has repeatedly voted to raise his own pay.” Lessee, how many times has Hatch voted against automatic raises and for salary reductions and for making raises harder to pass? Could it be close to 50 times? I don’t remember. Last year, it seems that Hatch introduced a bill to freeze congressional pay until 2014, but I don’t recall. Do you?

”He’s voted for bailouts.” Hmm … I can’t remember for sure, but I think Hatch might have voted against bailouts of the auto and mortgage industries. I’m really fuzzy on this. I hope somebody can tell me. Hasn’t Hatch also been consistently opposed to bailing out bankrupt states like California? I seem to recall but I can’t be sure that Dan Liljenquist went against the conservative grain in the Utah Legislature with a vote to accept a federal stimulus bailout instead of working to balance the state’s budget from the inside. I might have dreamed this.  

Hatch is “the third-biggest earmaker in Congress.” Didn’t Factcheck.org say that wasn’t true? If someone would please jog my memory, I’d be grateful. Hasn’t Sen. Hatch voted on many occasions to ban the practice of earmarking altogether? I really should know this, but I just can’t put my finger on it.   

Hatch voted for Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere.” What vote was that? I don’t recall. And does Liljenquist know anything about the bridge? I wonder, because it’s certainly not a bridge to nowhere. It was proposed to replace the ferry connecting the city of Ketchikan to the Ketchikan International Airport located on a giant nearby island. Anyway, isn’t it true that nobody in the whole Senate had an opportunity to cast a straight up-or-down vote on the bridge? I don’t recall, but I think maybe Congress has been moving ahead on bridge funding nonetheless because it’s needed. Please help me remember. My mind is a wall.