O'Donnell calls extending jobless benefits a 'tragedy'

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By Shane D'Aprile - 12/07/10 10:22 PM ET

Christine O'Donnell on Tuesday compared the "tragedy" of extending unemployment benefits to Pearl Harbor and the death of Elizabeth Edwards.

"Today marks a lot of tragedy," O'Donnell, the Tea Party-backed GOP Senate candidate from Delaware, said Tuesday night during an appearance in Virginia.

"Tragedy comes in threes," O'Donnell said. "Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards's passing and Barack Obama's announcement of extending the tax cuts, which is good, but also extending the unemployment benefits."

O'Donnell continued: "The reason I say this is a tragedy is because his announcement of economic recovery was more of a potpourri of sound bytes. It's like he took a little bit of what each party wanted and put it together. It's not a solid plan constructed on sound economic principles."

Speaking to reporters after her remarks Tuesday, O'Donnell backed off from the suggestion that the extension of benefits was a tragedy.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/132573-christine-odonnell-deal-that-extends-unemployment-benefits-a-tragedy

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Her And Palin Have A Talent Not All Of Us Have Or Want

We can't or don't want to make our living being grifters.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Who???????????????

[TlalocW]

3. I remember a time...

When defeated politicians went away. I miss those days.

TlalocW

[Botany]

7. She is a 3 times a defeated politician

but now she will be Sarah Plain part deux .... the only difference is no kids and that
she use periods when she speaks .... the media will keep her propped up because she
is good for the phony news game

[Botany]

4. Pearl Harbor happened yesterday?

She really is stupid on a stick.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. She's Probably Trying To Mobilize Hawaiians Right Now

~

[TlalocW]

15. More likely...

She's trying to drum up right-wing outrage because there are Japanese Shinto temples within a few miles of Pearl Harbor (ala the Ground Zero Mosque).

TlalocW

[badgolfer]

5. O'Donnell

Why is any reporter interviewing this dimwit?

This is another example of what is wrong with our media today.

[Laelth]

6. She's irrelevant. n/t

-Laelth

[HillbillyBob]

8. The real tragedy is that anyone gives this blow hard any credulity

nt

[guitar man]

10. Somebody remind me

What does she do for a living? Where is she employed?

[malaise]

11. Her birth was

a fucking tragedy - she's a lazy, uninformed low level criminal sponging off campaign funds.

[Gold Metal Flake]

12. She lives off her campaign donations.

[spanone]

13. oh, shut the fuck up christine...nobody, i repeat NOBODY gives a shit what you think

[hobbit709]

14. It's a tragedy that Mini-Grifterella gets attention.

and she's just jealous because she's never actually worked at a real job to get unemployment.

[Liberalynn]

16. So like a Puke

to say that one of the only two piecies that are good in this bill is a tragedy. The only part she really likes the tax hike for the wealthiest of Americans, at the expense of the rest of us is the real tragedy.

That is really what makes this bill a piece of t.p. that should only be used to wipe bottoms.