latest on unemployment extension bill (claim, work, money, federal)
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I KNEW Reid would try to attach other issues to the bill and then blame Republicans for it's failure. Obama needs to stop blaming Republicans and place the pressure squarely on Reid to allow the extension to go to vote unfettered by other partisan items.
To be honest, I see the motivation to try again. If a few R's and/or Nelson can be twisted to vote for it...he's happy...he'll get the bill he wanted through. And if he doesn't reach 60 votes (as should be expected), he can go back to his "Republicans hate the unemployed...I'm done forwarding unemployment extension bills for now!" talking point for a few days until he's "convinced" to push a standalone bill through. It's kind of a win-win situation for him. For us? Not so much.
He's running out of time, it's time for both parties to stop playing politics and work for the good of the very people who elected them. Bad as it is now, imagine if they don't get this done before the next "recess", so that by the time they return in September (again for just a little over a month and in probably even more of a "I gotta find a BS way to get elected" mood) virtually everyone past their initial 26 weeks will have had it cutoff. If I'm not mistaken, with Byrd's replacement he has exactly 60 votes for the standalone, so I doubt he would ever have that for a "package".
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