C-SPAN's microphones capture Sen. Michael Bennet venting to Sen. Amy Klobuchar about the Senate's lame-duck session in what he had thought was a private conversation. "The whole conversation's rigged," Bennet said. "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."

When you've got one U.S. Senator saying to another U.S. Senator that our political system is rigged, you know the system isn't working.