It's Unanimous! GOP Says No To Unemployment Benefits, Yes To Tax Cuts For The Rich

If you are a republican or teabagger and you complain about having NO jobs or NO unemployment check and you blame Obama for this, then I am going to stuff this article down your throat! I am sick to death of your justifications, lies and excuses you give for YOUR party of NO! They don't give a CRAP about YOU! You were okay with Bush/Cheney tax cut for the rich and they want you to be okay with it again. They are okay with adding seven hundred billion dollars to our debt to give wealthy taxpayers a tax cut without even pretending to pay for it. BUT you HOWL when Democrats try to keep millions of out-of-work Americans from financial ruin for a FRACTION of the same price? You have no more to say to me about this! Don't blame Obama because here it is...the facts, the truth...YOUR PARTY told you to go get SCREWED! Spin it how you will! ~Mem

For weeks, Senate Republicans have filibustered an extension of unemployment benefits on the grounds that Democrats aren't willing to cut spending or raise taxes to pay for them. At the same time, the Bush tax cuts are set to expire, and Republicans want them to be renewed. For two days, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl has raised eyebrows by insisting that emergency aid to unemployed people -- what he called a "necessary evil" -- be paid for through either tax hikes or spending cuts, while the tax cuts (which mostly benefit wealthy people) not be offset in any way. Yesterday claimed that this view is shared by "most of the people in my party."

He was correct.

"That's been the majority Republican view for some time," Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told TPMDC this afternoon after the weekly Read More....