Second Coming of Christ?

It appears that Senator Orrin Hatch has fallen off the diving board into the deep end of the pool. He has publicly compared Judge John Roberts, Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, to Jesus Christ, putative Son of God.

Don't take my word for it – I got it from the Daily Kos:

“Orrin Hatch compares Roberts to, um, Jesus, and urges the nominee to refuse answers to any questions. No link to the transcript from Hatch's Fox News Channel appearance yesterday:

“I think senators can ask any questions they want. I've said, no matter how dumb the question may be. But the, the nominee doesn't have to answer them and he should not, under the canons of judicial ethics, he should not answer questions on any issue that possibly would come before the Supreme Court. Otherwise, he would be foretelling how he would vote on those issues and then they would hold that against him. So it's a little bit like Biblical Pharisees, you know, who basically are always trying to undermine Jesus Christ, you know, it goes on the same way. If they can catch him in something, they can then criticize -- and the outside groups will go berserk. And that's that what drives the People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. They're against any Republican. We knew that just no matter who it was -- it could be the greatest person in the world, and Roberts is, is that -- they would come out against him.”

Republicans are really afraid of airing Roberts' views on the issues. Really, really, afraid.”

Now, now, we all know that Orrin Hatch has been a loose cannon as a senator and has always been a bottle short of a six pack, what with coming from Utah and all...

From the Wikipedia entry on Senator Hatch:

“He and his family are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” He almost single-handedly caused the rollback of the anti-discrimination provisions of the Fair Housing Act. He was the cause of that tempest in a teapot in 2003 when he suggested “that copyright owners should be able to destroy the computer equipment and information of those suspected of copyright infringement, including file sharing.”

Not surprisingly, he was accused of software piracy in a Wired article entitled “Orrin Hatch, Software Pirate?” shortly thereafter...

So why should he stop being a loony now?

It's just he's getting really close to a visit from the either Jacob Marley or the Holy Ghost if he keeps this nonsense up, you know?