http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/01/end-the-lame-duck-sessions
It was a moment of inadvertent public honesty. An open C-SPAN microphone caught the often-beleaguered Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), lamenting the impotence of this congressional lame-duck session.
"It's all rigged," Bennet griped Monday. "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 is just rigged."