From The Washington Post
The Senate by a single vote rejected an election-year effort Tuesday to extend federal unemployment benefits. Democrats tried to attach the benefit to a corporate tax bill. On a 59-40 vote in the GOP-controlled Senate, they fell just shy of the 60 votes needed to overcome objections that extending the benefits violated last year's budget agreement.
Massachusetts Sen . John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was the only senator who missed the vote. Kerry was campaigning Tuesday in Kentucky.
The amendment would have offered emergency federal unemployment benefits for six months, temporarily giving 13 weeks of extra assistance to people who exhaust their state benefits -- typically 26 weeks.
Link ^.
I'm laughing my ass off on this one. Maybe The Hildabeaste should beat up on sKerry instead of President Bush :)
1 posted on
05/11/2004 10:45:54 PM PDT by
upchuck
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To: upchuck
LOL Me too!
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!
LOL... Be sure to read post #1.
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.
3 posted on
05/11/2004 10:48:06 PM PDT by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in al-Qerry)
To: upchuck
Kerry's official response for missing the vote - that the real legislation (and why he was not present) requires a 'change in leadership' got me laughing silly!
Their campaign is full of buffoons!
4 posted on
05/11/2004 10:48:47 PM PDT by
txzman
(Jer 23:29)
To: Howlin; ConservativeMan55; Born Conservative
LOL... Be sure to read post #1. Rush mentioned this on the air today.
5 posted on
05/11/2004 10:49:24 PM PDT by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in al-Qerry)
To: upchuck
That's what the rats get for having an "AWOL" senator.
6 posted on
05/11/2004 10:49:56 PM PDT by
dc-zoo
To: upchuck
Ok, John Kerry, the candidate she's endorsing, is solely responsible for her bills failure, so she condemns Bush?
8 posted on
05/11/2004 10:52:12 PM PDT by
TheLurkerX
("When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." Hunter S. Thompson)
To: upchuck
Massachusetts Sen . John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was the only senator who missed the vote. Kerry was campaigning Tuesday in Kentucky. Also LMAO BUMP.
The damnocrats can't ever seem to get it right, can they?
9 posted on
05/11/2004 10:53:54 PM PDT by
kstewskis
("Political correctness is intellectual terrorism..." M.G.)
To: upchuck
To: upchuck
People who need extended unemployment insurance should just do what Kerry does -- ride a $7000 bicycle and marry two rich widows. It works for him.
To: upchuck
I nver thought I'd say this: Thanks John Kerry. No buzz off.
To: upchuck
Guy can't even figure out when he has to return to vote and he wants us to believe he has a plan to lead this country. OK Botox Boy, so you have a plan to lead the country. Where? Over a cliff?
13 posted on
05/11/2004 11:00:58 PM PDT by
McGavin999
(If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
To: upchuck
I am deeply disappointed that once again the Senate Republican leadership has chosen to play politics with America's unemployedSeems to me they weren't playing, they were working. Kerry, on the other hand, was showing America's unemployed how to get paid for one job while out interviewing for another.
14 posted on
05/11/2004 11:01:08 PM PDT by
Dolphy
(I joined the redlipstick boycott of MSNBC)
To: upchuck
"I am deeply disappointed that once again the Senate Republican leadership has chosen to play politics with America's unemployed.Oh just shut up and go away.
15 posted on
05/11/2004 11:05:15 PM PDT by
Brad’s Gramma
(Take THAT Kerry and Hitlery! FREEPERS ROCK!!!!)
To: upchuck
...I worked with my colleagues Senator Fitzgerald and Senator Nickles to craft an unemployment insurance extension...
Craft? Well, if you're a witch then I guess crafting comes naturally.
(where is that "witches' hat .jpg" when you really need it...)
To: upchuck
awe......
LOL
22 posted on
05/12/2004 6:13:13 AM PDT by
buffyt
(Kerry is a Flop Flipper, he Flips Flop, all the Flop that he Flips, is well Flipped Flop!)
To: upchuck
Her Heinous will be on the Fred Dicker (NY post) radio show Wednesday at 10:30 est. Tune in to streaming audio at www.wrow.com
25 posted on
05/12/2004 6:58:08 AM PDT by
1Old Pro
To: upchuck
Hillary knows that there are a lot of people who will just not work as long as they are getting benefits. She'll do all she can to keep the jobless numbers up.
Unemployment benefits are a safety net, not a hammock.
26 posted on
05/12/2004 7:33:44 AM PDT by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: upchuck
On a 59-40 vote in the GOP-controlled Senate, they fell just shy of the 60 votes needed to overcome objections that extending the benefits violated last year's budget agreement. Massachusetts Sen . John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was the only senator who missed the vote. Kerry was campaigning Tuesday in Kentucky.
It's Kerry's fault!
27 posted on
05/12/2004 7:34:56 AM PDT by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: Hillary
Read the want-ads. If people can't find "work" it's because they don't want to "work".
29 posted on
05/12/2004 2:26:32 PM PDT by
RedwM
To: upchuck
I represent a state with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.And the Bill didn't pass, Hurrah! I wonder how many of those people won't vote for her again.LOL
30 posted on
05/12/2004 2:47:32 PM PDT by
Pagey
(Hillary Rotten is (still ) a Smug and Holier- than- Thou Socialist)
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