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In reply to the discussion: Robert Reich : The deal emerging from the Senate is a lousy one. Let me count the ways: [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)while they sit in their posh houses and enjoy employment. Those purists will never be happy with anything this president, in particular, does. That's why they didn't vote for him (among other things).
Had we just "gone over the cliff", whether the Republicans had "repeatedly backed down from using U.E. benefits as hostage", the fact remains that their benefits stopped on December 31st and they would have suffered until the Democrats could get a another deal through.
Now, seriously, do you actually think that would have happened? The Republican House had just voted DOWN funding to help with Sandy hurricane victims and rebuilding right after forced to vote for President Obama's bill, for chrissakes, because they KNOW they won't have to pay a price for it. Gerrymandering took care of that.
Although not extending U.E. benefits would not affect me or mine in any degree, I do care about them. I'm sorry you don't appear to.