Demcare dunce of the day: Sen. Bennet says he’ll sacrifice job…that he’s already losing
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet made weekend headlines with his noble declaration that he’ll stand by the Demcare takeover — even if it means losing his job.
Since he was already well on his way to losing his seat thanks to his reckless vote for generational theft and bogus government job inflation, where’s the sacrifice?
This isn’t called standing on principle. It’s called cutting his losses preemptively.
Democratic “martyrdom” at work:
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said Sunday that he is willing to trade his job for health care reform, if that is what a vote in favor of President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority eventually costs him.
The Colorado senator made the remark at the end of the opening segment of CNN’s Sunday morning program “State of the Union,” appearing to surprise host John King, who quipped, “All right. That tape will be held.”
Bennet faces a tough election next year in a state that polls suggest is increasingly unhappy with the Democrats’ expansive agenda.
King asked him, “If you get to the final point and you are a critical vote for health care reform, and every piece of evidence tells you, if you support that bill, you will lose your job, would you cast the vote and lose your job?”
Bennet replied simply, “Yes.”
The remark was quickly picked up by partisans on both sides but seemed to especially cheer those on the left, who have become accustomed to the hemming and hawing of swing-state Democrats in the Senate over health reform.
Hey, keep thumbing your nose as your constituents, Dems! The stampede of independent voters bailing on Big Government never sounded so sweet.
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That would be Dingy Harry’s story as well. Here are some guy who don’t know when a war is lost.
How principled… Can we take you out now?
He only has one constituent, Governor Ritter. Bennet was appointed by the Governor when Salazar went to the Dept of Interior, not elected. He is also a rubber-stamp for the confirmation of the corrupt Stephanie Villafuerte for US Attorney.
A good friend of mine is a healthcare consultant who is very good at what she does. She started a website to further the healthcare “debate”. http://groundlevelhealthcare.com/home/
My concern is that, she still believes in the virtue of government, at least a vestige of it. I fear that many American still niavely hope that their government cares a whit about what they think or want. The political rogues now are in Congress and the Brahmin imperial Presidency. Rogue with respect to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the will of the People. Now the greatest threat to America and the world is the renegade US Government.
This is the radical left. They are policy terrorist. They don’t give a damn about the American people. They want power and money and they want it now regardless of who has to die to get it.
The whole lot of them should be impeached before they can completely destroy our country.
Senator, would you please resign before you inflict such flagrant stupidity on the country?
It makes sense to me. I’m from Denver and NO ONE could understand why Gov Ritter picked this guy. Everyone was baffled by the decision Ritter made and now we know it was because Bennet was the stooge the Dems needed to get the progressive agenda through. Bennet and Ritter knew what Obama was going to jam down our throats in the months to come. They had special meetings together during the DNC convention here last summmer.
Michael Bennet… you sold out your country and your childrens future. Go to hell….. Oh Wait…. Your seante seat will be cold but I believe there’s a seat being warmed up for you in hell..
One more lesson for the voters of Colorado and the rest of the country about what you are really voting for whenever you vote for any Democrat.
An interesting analogy. Like suicide bombers. Willing to destroy themselves to destroy the country.
Alahu Akbar!
He looks like the model for the new “Ken” Jihad doll in the barbie collection.
I told my Dem Congressman how pleased I was that he voted for it, so we had ample jsutification to send him packing.
The Dems know that they will suffer huge losses next year. It doesn’t matter. They also know the Republicans won’t win a super majority, so the Dems will ram as much of their agenda down our throats now, then obstruct all Republican attempts to fix their mess after the elections. The Republicans would need a veto-proof super majority, the cojones to use it, and the integrity not to abuse it — and that ain’t happening anytime soon.
Yeah, but you just know the MSM will spin it Bennet’s. By the time they finish playing him up as the most altruistic human on earth, a man of “great” principle and “high moral” character, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see him reelected.
So, is this his revenge on the citizens of Colorado for not supporting him, or is it sorta like me saying I’ll give up beer for Lent, when I’m neither a drinker nor a Catholic?
How arrogant of these legislators to think they know better than we do!! We didn’t elect (select) them to think FOR us, they WORK for us.
Dexter–disagree!! The Repubs are being taken over themselves by fiscal conservatives who will come up with a super majority in 2010 in the House. The Senate will take a couple of more years, but the 2010 election will prove that they have all been put on notice.
In a Rassmussun poll this weekend McCain is only 2 points ahead of JD Hayworth–who isn’t even running!!! YET!
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Top salary and all benefits included; 40 hour week guaranteed, time and a half weekends, double time on holidays.
I’m discouraged by how the Frist/Hastert majorities were squandered. If we can manage to purge the wimps and crooks from the party, then maybe we’ll have a chance to institute real change. We’ll see.
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HI WALES–Colorado went from a red state to a blue one over the last decade. A lot of my Hispanic wife’s family members immigrated to Denver in the last 30 years and became citizens and voters there.
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I get into it with most of them when we go from El Paso, Tx. and visit them. Most like Comrade Obama (PBUH) and voted for him–they think he will help their economic situations to improve. Many are hard working self employed people, and are sincere Christians. Some have served in our military. They still blame the EVIL BOOOOSH, CHANEY, and the OIL COMPANIES for our / their economic problems.
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I try to explain how voting for the democRATS / liberals / socialists / statists / marxists / communists will destroy our country and economy. And how their votes support further ABORTIONS. They do not hear and understand yet. But they will as their / our economic situations worsen and their / our taxes rise.
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Don’t count on getting rid of these evil clowns yet–it hasn’t “hit home” with many Hispanic voters yet. It will soon.
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John Bibb
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These guys never jump unless they know exactly where they will be landing. Then they wrap themselves in the flag and personal nobility. Funny how they always end up making millions afterwards in cushy jobs at private equity firms, at lobbying firms and/or become billionaires as major shareholders in start-up companies cashing in on future government spending on things like… oh…. global warming for instance. Or death panel consulting.
We’re not Catholics eithe. But my dad always gave up cantaloupes and watermelon
That’s a big point. The GOP has done next to nothing to point out how traditional Hispanic values line up with Conservative values.
¿Señor Steele?
The Dems are going to lose big in 2010 and they know that. It scares me to think of the damage they’ll cause once they realize they have nothing to lose.
What is scarier is that once the
RepublicansAssistant Democrats re-take control, nothing will change. The Assistant Democrats are only interested in being in charge. They don’t actually stand for anything.Hopefully, the first of many to be gone in 2010.
Phil, I hope you’re wrong but I’m not too optimistic. Only by the public keeping pressure on these idiots, left and right can we have even a shred of hope that things will change. When the Senate voted over the weekend I had the sense that there is nothing we can do to stop this rapid slide to destruction. I hope I’m wrong.
I hope there is a thundering herd of conservative Republicans and Independents that put these buffoons out of their misery of serving the people of the United States.
I am confident that this bill is going to fail. The Senate is hoping to get their version of the bill into joint committee by Xmas which means there will be another vote on cloture requiring 60 votes again to get it out of the Senate. The bill as it current stands will not get 60 votes and it takes 60 votes to make any amendments.
Whatever bill that does emerge will not survive in joint committee and so this would carry well into next year when it will run into a wall of Tea Party resistance as election season gets going.
I think this bill is dead. We should be focusing on the Tea Party issues and make sure we make both parties pay in 2010. No incumbents.
This leftist scumbag is no different than a suicide bomber… his intent is to destroy the U.S. irrespective of personal cost…. there is ho “high road” traveled… this isn’t about doing right… it is reprehensible vindictiveness of the type spewed from the White House on a daily basis.
Civil War is around the corner…
There is another way of putting this. He was elected to represent his voters and their interests. If he votes against the interests of the people in his state, he will be voted out of office. He is willing to deny the people of Colorado their voice in the US Senate to promote the interest of his party. Party first…people last. Dirtbag!
This criminal in clown’s clothing needs to watch his back. If the door swinging too hard doesn’t hurt him too much, I hope for his sake he’s not allergic to tar and feathers.
RWR
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As I’ve said before, once we regain control we have to stay involved and not leave it up to the people we vote in.
Watching over a politician is like raising a teenager…you want to trust them to do the right thing, but you still have to keep an eye on them and make sure they don’t forget what you’ve told them.
…a better paying health-care lobbying job. “I know what my constituents want, but it’s the lobbyists who will make me rich.”
Busy day today. I think the bill will probably not pass as it is but a form of it will. The Marxists, communists in our government are working overtime to make these changes before people really know what’s at stake. Some will go along with it anyway. It may be able to reverse some of what’s done but as we know, once the government puts a program in place, it’s nearly impossible to change.
Rush is talking about the Dems sacrificing some of their own toward the bigger goal. Bennet is one he just spoke about.
These are dangerous times and I’m afraid for our future.
That’s exactly what has happened. We’ve gotten lazy and let the government mutate into what it is today. I hope that we are awake and ready to make the real change. They can keep the hope.
Wonderful. Sen. Bennet also took the phones off the hook on Friday in the local offices. Drone on the phone in DC said it was the massive call volume to the local offices was problem.
I did thank him for his boss’s candor on the sunday show, and said I would work my ass off to help him retire.
the more these tax and spend dems do while disregarding the public, the longer they will be out of power in the futures. in 93 they lost power from 94 to 2006. this time i’ll bet they are out of power for 20 plus years.
Cleve Tidwell, among others, are up against him from the Republican party. Of those, only Tidwell is a REAL conservative. Smaller government, lower taxes, FAIRER taxes, STRONG Constitutional stances, and STRONG 2d amendment supporter.
Those of you in Colorado (you too, Michelle!) need to see this…
Wolf
He was never elected, he was appointed by Ritter to take Salazar’s place. Most Dems in CO wanted Andrew Romanoff to get the job.
On top of being a Dem lapdog, Bennet is a carpetbagger from back East. He came in to help straighten out Denver Public Schools with their typical inner-city issues. He was actually doing a fairly decent job with DPS, he should have kept that job.
We got a card in the mail over the weekend for a Bennet open house on Dec 5th. It would have been interesting to attend (we have a school concert that day).
Unfortunately, with the large influx of people from places like CA and NY, Colorado is no longer red. I keep telling people that we’re moving to Wyoming as soon as the kids graduate from high school.
He looks like a Vulcan.
Bennett is a political appointee by the DNC. No one I spoke to even knew who he was…this was done by Gov. Ritter who is a hard-core liberal. Bennett is an elitist from the get-go with a lot of lobbyist friends. I’m talking to everyone I know here in Colorado to support a true conservative and get this putz who is only beholden to those dems who appointed him—he was never elected to anything!