I have to say the republicans need to learn how to pick their battles. They screw the veterans, which pisses off conservatives. Then they vote against extending unemployment benefits, which pisses off the liberals.
When you consider the big picture, $6 billion bucks ain’t sh*t. In fact, they should all say “Ryan saved us a little more than that over 10 years, so, no big deal. We will vote to keep giving checks to the hard working men and women who are looking for work in this lousy Obama/democrat economy. But we will fight tooth and nail to make GM pay for it. They owe the taxpayers $10 billion.”
I think the GOP could win the unemployment comp fight if they came up with coherent messages and themes and repeat them correctly, as Dems know how to do. Dems repeat a united message here
Whenever asked about it Rs should be highjacking and aggressively taking control of the debate about how this shows that Obama’s policies are failures and how a drastic change is needed because he is hurting these people long term, and hold firm on that theme and and keep pressing the point aggressively over and over.
In fact I made a similar point here.
I agree, this 'must pay for it' argument is a bit lame. They look weak repeating it as all they got.