Not for the Suicidal

I post this to encourage not despair, but fury.

From TPM:

Whoops, hot mic. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) was caught by a microphone on the Senate floor yesterday, telling a colleague "this stuff's rigged" and badmouthing his party's strategy for the lame duck session.

"It's all rigged," Bennet said (clip below). "I mean the whole conversation is rigged. The conversation, the fact that we don't get a discussion before the break about what we're going to do in the lame duck. It's just rigged. This stuff's rigged."

Potentially embarrassing, but the Senator's office is not backing down.

"Michael was telling the same truths on the senate floor that he tells folks here in Colorado," Bennet's Communication Director Adam Bozzi said in a statement to TPM. "For almost two years, he has talked about needing to fix a broken Washington... We can't move forward on major issues facing our country because of a broken system that is rigged to prevent progress."

Commenter spiffarino_nc quotes the late, great and deeply lamented George Carlin:

"They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30...years ago. You know what they want? They want obedient workers...people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money...They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it...they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this...place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in The Big Club."

Don't be fooled: the last thing the teabaggers want is to open up The Big Club to the rest of us.