Multiple news outlets are now reporting that House Republicans have caved, and will pass a two-month extension of unemployment insurance benefits and payroll tax cuts, with only minor changes from the Senate bill.

I guess they got tired of all the bad press they created for themselves.

11 replies on “House GOP to Cave on Unemployment/Payroll Tax Cut Extension”

  1. Here I thought they were sticking to an excuse that “two months is not enough, it creates insecurity, we need permanent solutions* instead of a temporary extension”

    *”another perpetual and ongoing opportunity to be obstructionist dickbags”

  5. @3: since it’s the holiday, hardly anyone noticed, and most of those who noticed will forget by next november. what they’ll hear then is that obama added to the deficit. all by his anti-colonial marxist lonesome.

  6. Shyeah… once the pollsters let them know how terrible the optics were on this one, it was only a matter of time.

  8. Obama Dearangement Syndrome.
    It leads to tea party overreach every-time without fail, christ, the exact wrong battle @ precisely the wrong time. And Boehner is rightfully gonna lose a political pound of orange flesh over it .

  9. Cut Taxes,
    Loot the SS Trust Fund;
    and
    Obama and the Democraps claim it as a Victory?

    someone hasn’t looked lately at where the goalposts are….

  10. You don’t call someone who ducks out of the way of a speeding train as “caving into the train.” The House GOP set themselves up w/ a ludicrous show-down over something that was impossible to beat. The fact that they even attempted it was stupid, there was no way they could “win” this one. A more accurate headline would be “House GOP recognizes, differentiates asshole from hole in ground.”

    (the GOP’s definition of “win” = not allowing the WH to accomplish anything)

  11. Kicking the can is the Democrat’s solution to all serious problems.

    Geezer Goldy might receive his benefits from the Ponzi scheme, but you young people are doomed.

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