http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/05/bennett_utah_primary_loss.html
They just wouldn't listen.
That's what Republican Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah says of the "tea party" activists who on Saturday denied him the GOP nomination for a fourth term in office.
Convinced by what they had been reading on conservative blogs and what they had been hearing on some conservative talk shows that he wasn't conservative enough, Bennett says the activists he would encounter in recent weeks told him he's part of the "problem" and needs to be voted out of office.
In a lively conversation with All Things Considered host Michelle Norris earlier today, Bennett recounted what a conversation he had with such voters would often go like.
"Why didn't you kill Obamacare?!" he would be asked.
"Well, you know, politics is a team sport and you need 51 votes (to defeat a bill in the Senate)," he would say, "and in the of a cloture vote (to sustain a filibuster) you need 41 votes."
But "you're a senator! You have power!" Bennett says he would be told. "You let Obama pass that plan!"
"I would say, well, the reality is I couldn't. ... No, they won't buy that."
1 comment:
I have no sympathy for Bennett. He voted to kill the healthcare bill.
The Republicans are getting what they deserve. They have used the Tea Party to promote the most extreme positons of their agenda.The party will be taken over by the radical right-wingers. It's now up to the Democrats to organize and fight them. There is no compromising with their destructive positions.
Al Moskowitz
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