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| Rep. Capuano Tells Fellow Dems: 'You're Screwed' |
| 2010-01-12 |
| When House Democrats gathered on Friday for their end-of-the week caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol, caucus chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) told the group he wanted them to hear first from Rep. Michael Capuano, who'd just returned from a primary campaign for the Senate seat in Massachusetts vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy. Larson asked Capuano, who finished in second place, to share the wisdom he learned on the campaign trail. Capuano took to the microphone, looked out at his colleagues and condensed what he'd learned into two words. "You're screwed," he told his friends in the House, according to one attendee. The room's silence was broken only by soft, nervous laughter. Capuano confirmed the gist of the message -- "I'm not sure of the exact wording," he told HuffPost, chuckling -- and said that he doubted his wisdom was anything they didn't already know. "I think I was just confirming stuff they already knew," he said. "I focused on two things: the war in Afghanistan and jobs." Everywhere Capuano went in his state, he said, he was bombarded with demands that the government do more to create jobs. He was also greeted by deep skepticism about Obama's escalation of the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan. Capuano said he told the caucus that opponents of the war need to be given a chance to vote against funding for it on the House floor. "If we do anything [on the war], we need to have a separate vote on it. People who can vote for it, can vote for it. But those of us who want to vote against it, [should] be given that opportunity, too," he said. "But I focused mostly on jobs. People are tired of the promises of jobs. They need them now." |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #4 Give Mike the Governor Hutchinson award of day. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-01-12 20:59 |
| #3 Ya sound bitter, Mike... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-01-12 19:21 |
| #2 uh huh...everyone was hunky dory with the Obamacare plan? Liar |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-12 18:50 |
| #1 I'd like to see Nancy, Reid, et. al. laugh this one off like they did a couple of months ago. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-01-12 15:36 |