[lbryce]

The Republicans seem to rather think of themselves as being entrants as part of a popularity contest than doing what is the only point of them being in Congress in the first place. They've already earned the opprobrium of the Democrats and their ilk in limiting the unemployment benefits that expired this past Saturday and now have capitulated once again in agreeing to having the benefits extended. Do you think anyone is going to be grateful towards Republicans, embrace them and their party platform in 2014 for doing what is essentially an act of cowardice, frightened by how the headlines would somehow ameliorate their chances in 2014 as a result?

If as what Obama had recently announced that 2014 will be a great year for the economy, why then the need to extend the benefits at a cost of a billion dollars a week, when instead of the government, the economy would insure the income that the jobless have currently failed to secure for themselves?

[fwdude]

But... but... I thought the economy was just roaring ahead in a recovery.

So, which is it, Kenyan?

[Salvation]

Nooooooooo!

[bill1952]

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

― Samuel Adams

Yes, this IS what he was speaking of. - half of the posters here are to the left of Putin.