Senator REVEALS ALL!! " Its All Rigged "

[Segami]

" Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet was caught bitching to a colleague today about his party's lame duck strategy on the Senate floor today, thanks to a friendly hot mic. His complaint? "It's all rigged." Perhaps you might agree!


Bennet, who just won re-election in Colorado, was complaining to fellow Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar during a vote today about how little preparation and care went into the Senate Democrats' strategy for the lame duck session (which is now essentially "sit around while Republicans continue beating you"):


Bennet was speaking to a colleague who appeared to be and sounded like Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar when Bennet said of this lame duck session, "It's all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged. The fact that we don't get to a discussion before the break about what we're going to do in the lame duck. It's just rigged."


When contacted for a comment on the hot mic, Bennet's staff responded, "Michael was telling the same truths on the Senate floor that he tells folks back home in Colorado."
While the choice of "rigged" will make for colorful interpretations Internet-wide, we're glad that Bennet stopped by that hot mic long enough to acknowledge this: "We don't get to a discussion before the break about what we're going to do in the lame duck."


Exactly! Why do Democrats come guns-blazing into a legislative session with soaring rhetoric about middle-class-only tax cuts, repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," passing the DREAM Act, etc., without preparing a solid plan for how they'll get these things through the Senate? Maybe a simple headcount on various issues before the legislative session begins would help, so then the whole plan, which your base is starting to get excited about, wouldn't start crumbling vote-by-vote within five seconds of the opening gavel.


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[Skidmore]

1. What do you think is meant by

"lining up the votes?"

[emulatorloo]

2. Hate to break it to you - Michael Bennet wants to extend ALL the Bush taxcuts

He's probably mad because of that.

[Hannah Bell]

3. he's a winger, ed deformer, agent of billionare phil anschutz. he's one of the riggers.

[emulatorloo]

5. If he is bitching about things being "rigged", I think we outta take that as a good sign

that the Dems might get some good things done.

(that said he is still better than that Teabag Guy he defeated.)

[Hannah Bell]

9. he supports the same policies the teabaggers do. he's a republican in dem clothing.

and doubtful he's "bitching" about things being rigged, because he's helping to rig them.

no good signs here at all.

[polichick]

4. Sort of a Congressional WikiLeak - very interesting! nt

[emulatorloo]

6. More like a WhinyLeak

[polichick]

7. Still info we don't usually get. nt

[emulatorloo]

8. I think we already knew that Leadership has the votes all lined up before something goes to a vote

Isn't that what he is complaining about, or am I missing something.

[polichick]

10. I mean we don't usually get to know what exactly Senators are saying to each other. nt

[sarcasmo]

11. Corporations own the politicians and in turn own us.