Fiorina changes stance on unemployment benefits

[Joanne98]

Source: Mercury News

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Tuesday shifted her position on extending unemployment benefits, saying she would "probably" support the extension if she were in the Senate.
In an interview with San Francisco's KGO-AM radio, Fiorina said she would probably break with members of her party.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday were helped by a newly sworn senator and broke through a GOP filibuster in Washington, D.C., in their effort to extend jobless benefits to 2.5 million Americans. The effort initially failed last month.

"I probably would vote for this extension, but I'll tell you what, I think it is absolutely appropriate for people to stand on their desks and say, 'When is it that we're finally going to do what needs to be done and cut government spending?'" Fiorina said.

Earlier this month, the former Hewlett Packard chief executive said she opposed the extension because it would worsen the national deficit. Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer had been using Fiorina's position to attack her as out of touch with average workers.

"For so many weeks, more than 200,000 Californians have been waiting desperately for this bill to help them through these tough times, and for weeks, Carly Fiorina has said no to these California families," said Boxer's campaign manager, Rose Kapolczynski.



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She's on the run!

[Skittles]

1. she is still a repuke whore

[Dawson Leery]

2. As a Senator (forbid) she will not.

She is just saying this to get votes. She is a liar!

[caledesi]

3. Agree DL! nt

[Iliyah]

4. Wait

this morning I heard on MSNBC, Andrea???, anyways someone was telling her that the POLLS were definitely on the side of the GOP and the deficit, you know, our children's children will have to pay for the unemployment extension.

I thought at that moment, if there is a depression, I mean worldwide, doesn't the rich loose also? And, there won't be a deficit to pay off b/c everyone in the world will be broke.

[nyy1998]

6. Well the problem in that situation would be the collapse of the dollar

Our debt(bonds) would mean nothing and we would have a hell of a hard time getting out of debt and spending any future money on the deficit.

But I think we are FAR FAR away from that point. The deficit isn't great, but unemployment is far worst of a point.

As for the polls and GOP, Gallup has shown two straight polls that had the Dems leading the generic poll(although the 1st one was in the margin of error but the 2nd one had a clear 6 point lead). I think we could get unemployment to go down, the better ppl will start to feel about themselves which will help the incumbent party. If the economy is slowly growing and unemployment isn't dropping fast enough, then the Dems are in trouble.

[Tempest]

15. The polls are against the GOP

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/07/broad_support_for_jobless_benefits.html?wprss=behind-the-numbers

While the national public is closely divided as to whether the federal government should spend more money to try to boost the economy, more than six in 10 support extending jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed. Thirty-six percent say they oppose the idea.

[WhiteTara]

14. she's a republican and that's all they know

is to lie and lie and cheat and steal.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Oh, she would, would she? That two yacht-having bimbo

will say anything now to get elected. Just like the desperate John "5-planes" McCain.

[wordpix]

16. she has two yachts? How many houses? Does she know?

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

7. "Oh crap, it's going to pass?"

"I better get started taking credit for it."

[rpannier]

9. Republicans oppose it then if the economy turns around in the next six months

They'll do 1 of 2 things
1. Take full credit for it
or
2. Tell us how the economy turned around in spite of it. That it was really all those tax breaks

[SoapBox]

8. Flippy - Floppy!

Oh...Ms. Finkorina...you are going to get it from the TeaTalibanTraitorBaggers for saying that!

[KeepItReal]

10. Still won't erase the fact she's #19 of the 20 Worst CEOs of ALL TIME

"A consummate self-promoter, Fiorina was busy pontificating on the lecture circuit and posing for magazine covers while her company floundered. She paid herself handsome bonuses and perks while laying off thousands of employees to cut costs. The merger Fiorina orchestrated with Compaq in 2002 was widely seen as a failure. She was ousted in 2005."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/30502091/Portfolio_s_Worst_American_CEOs_of_All_Time?slide=3

[wordpix]

18. and her HP computers didn't work, either: story

I bought a new HP desktop ca. 2004 at Best Buy 1 hr. from my home and it wouldn't power on. Had to drive it back. Took home another, thinking the first was a fluke---a brand new computer not powering on---it had never happened to me. Second HP computer powered on but had some other major problem (cannot remember what it was now). Basically, would not work. Took back the 2nd (by now, I'm spending lots on gas and time back and forth to Best Buy). Salesman asked if I wanted another HP and I said NOOOOOOOO!!!!!**&&$$$$!!!! I paid a bit more for a Sony, took it home and I'm still using it without a major problem.

I wouldn't vote for this woman, ever.

[David__77]

11. Flip flopper! She has no principles at all.

She's an opportunist of the worst variety.

[McCamy Taylor]

12. Great to see GOPers forced to think about the unemployed even if only for a few months

in order to get elected. The nation's poor, unemployed and disabled better get all that they can before November, because they will be out in the cold again after that.

[TommyO]

13. That's not a shift, it's weasel words for

I want you to think I'll do the right thing and support the extension of benefits when I really know that I'll do no such thing.

The key is "probably", why can't she say definitively, "I will vote for continued extension of unemployment benefits during this time of employment crisis in the United States?"

[KillCapitalism]

17. I smell bullshit n/t

[karynnj]

19. "they should stand on their desks"????

Pretty non Senatorial behavior there - and not what I ever saw on CSPAN-2.

Now, in the case world of the RW - if Boxer said this, I would expect immediate coverage on Fox - with photoshopped pictures of Senator Boxer standing on her desk in the Senate floor, probably with a raised clenched fist - with serious faced FOX news anchors asking "if this was how CA wanted their Senator to act".