Following yesterday’s post on Sen. Michael Bennet’s statements about having “nothing to show for” trillions in debt, the Bennet campaign responded to the Washington Times:

In response, the Bennet campaign yawned, pointing out that Mr. Bennet’s comment, made at an Aug. 21 town hall meeting in Greeley, wasn’t exactly stop-the-presses material. The first-term Senate-appointee has been running as a deficit hawk for most of the campaign, pointedly criticizing — who else? — President George W. Bush for his free spending on the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, not to mention his tax cuts.
In other words, conservatives can call Mr. Bennet a hypocrite on the deficit all they want. But don’t call him a flip-flopper. As one staffer put it, “It’s not like it’s some kind of bomshell [sic] that some Washington reporters who haven’t covered the campaign are making it out to be.”

Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams, in an exclusive to Battle ‘10, responds:

Michael Bennet’s declaration that ‘we have nothing to show’ for being $13 trillion in debt might have been a rare moment of candor for the accidental senator. There really is ‘nothing to show’ for the failed ‘stimulus’ bill other than lost jobs and higher unemployment.