RINO TWINS...ACTIVATE!
Posted on 07/22/2010 7:58:13 AM PDT by SmithL
President Obama hailed the 60 U.S. senators who voted to extend federal unemployment benefits Tuesday - without paying for the $34 billion tab - for standing on the side of "working families."
The measure, which had been blocked by Republicans, would distribute unemployment benefits to some 2.5 million recipients who have been out of work for 26 to 99 weeks. GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine voted in favor of the measure. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., joined the GOP filibuster. The House is expected to pass the measure so that Obama can sign it.
No doubt Americans who have seen their benefits run out are relieved that their unemployment checks will resume - and be paid retroactively.
For the rest of us, however, the Tuesday vote felt like another hit in the wallet - with Democrats not even hiding the fact that they would rather see the unemployed go without unemployment checks than cut $34 billion from the $3.7 trillion federal budget.
The Senate might have passed and Obama might have signed a "pay-as-you-go" rule that required Washington to pay for new spending earlier this year. But that doesn't mean that Democratic leaders feel in any way bound by the pay-go spirit.
Au contraire, not paying for the unemployment extension somehow had become a moral imperative for Obama and Company.
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Jeez, If the SF Chronicle is printing this.... I am starting to believe November might bring a real ground-swell.
Deb Saunders is their token conservative and she is a very good writer. The NY Slimes token “conservatives” is garbage like David Brooks who is a lib. I never read any NY Slimes crap but Rush always mentions him.
The sad part is that the RNC and the NRSC will be right there with $$$$$$$ and support for Snowe and Collins when they are up for re-election.
He who votes doen't count. Only he who counts the votes counts.
Sad but true...however, I think we'll know something is up if the Dems win by a total count of 4 votes to 2... ;)
My brother-in-law, a staunch Democrat, hopes he never has to go back to work again.
No one batted an eye when Saddam got 100% of the votes.
Collins and Snowe again.
I wonder what the effect would be if these were loans, not payments.
How about tying Congressional pay to budget adherence?
Of course, there would be some second-order effects from these that wouldn’t be positive, but they are interesting to consider as proposals.
The part that bothers me is that nobody wants to suggest that we take pay cuts and jobs that are below our abilities, though that’s what the invisible hand of economics is suggesting. The problem is, it would point out clearly that this Administration’s plan has failed miserably.
Problem is, last time around (2008), I saw lots of liberals getting out the vote and not a single conservative. It’s not election fraud when Republicans vote Democrat.
Why stop at 99 weeks. Why not extend it out to a nice round number like 100 weeks. Heck why not just extend it out a full 2 years....
The only time either political party gives a damn about the deficit is when they aren’t in power. Right now the Republicans are asking valid questions about how to pay for things like this and the Democrats are ignoring it. I guarantee you that if the GOP takes over Congress in the fall, the Democrats will suddenly become deficit hawks and scream to the heavens about what GOP proposals will do to the deficit and debt, and the Republicans will ignore the issue completely.
RINO TWINS...ACTIVATE!
Why don’t we just call all Welfare checks Unemployment Checks?
Was that supposed to be a joke, or did he really say that?
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