Michael Bennet: “We sent it around to people, and it was a letter to the President that in part said: Specifically, we hope that the…”

“We sent it around to people, and it was a letter to the President that in part said: Specifically, we hope that the discussion will include discretionary spending cuts, entitlement changes and tax reform. A comprehensive plan. Sixty-four Senators signed that letter--more than a majority of the Senate. It is more than the 60-vote threshold necessary to pass legislation around here--a majority of Republicans and a majority of Democrats recognizing what is blindingly obvious to the American people, which is that we need a comprehensive plan because the math does not work otherwise. And we need people of good will to come together and say: We understand we are not going to be able to solve this problem if we continue to fight with each other. We are not going to be able to solve this problem if we continue to pretend there are some magical mathematics out there that allows us to solve the debt crisis based on political ideology rather than our working together. People ask me sometimes what they can do to help with this discussion.…”