The solution is easy and I am surprised the GOP has not offered it.
Extend the benefits for a year but make it a loan that, like student loans, has to be paid back.
If dems oppose immediately attack them as uncaring.
How about the Republicans go on tv, day after day, and blast the Obama Administration on its policies which have destroyed the economy? Day after day whenever they get a chance. Then tie that in with the unemployment rate.
Beating up, day after day, on people who are on unemployment (which basically means “once dutifully employed, now without a job”) comes across as tone deaf. Yes, people shouldn’t have to be on unemployment for 99 weeks but I don’t know anyone who has had that privilege. Personally, I mean.
Nice!
The response would be that it makes it useless for people to try to find a job when that runs out beacuse their earnings would go to repaying the loan, leaving them nothing to live on. You cannot win an argument with people who don’t believe in reality other than the reality they perceive in their fantasies.