Or the Democrats could just say fuck the 60 vote requirement to bring the extension up for a vote on the floor of the Senate.

But that would assume the Democrats grew balls and/or a back bone.

Rossi seems to be as about in touch with the people and their issues as Boehner, Barton, BP, Jindal, Vitter and DeMint... which is not going help him out even in Eastern Wa and around the military bases/their communities. Too much disconnect from the Unemployed R's.

@1 I agree. Bring this to a vote and let the republicans expound to America exactly why their 7 out of work friends and their sister who's been unemployed for a year and a half who is out of benefits had to liquidate her 401k and move out of her apartment into the parent's basement because she ran out of benefits don't deserve help.

Fuck the republicans and their hypocrisy. Securing military contracts for their rich family connections is not an emergency but prevent MILLIONS of ACTUAL AMERICANS from becoming homeless is!

@1 & 4: isn't the Senate now out of session until July 12th?

Yes. The bill is set to be re-introduced to the Senate on the 14th too. :)

@6: so the message should be that the senate republicans stalled jobless benefits while they themselves went on taxpayer paid vacation?

oh, yeah.

For 8 years, the Bush administration screwed the people while helping their rich friends. That didn't seem to bother their voters because they don't think.

Obama's been in office for 1.5 years now, so the Republicans will simply blame "big government" for taking jobs away from people. That won't bother their voters because they don't think. Even the unemployed ones. Rossi would never allow his foreclosure real estate exploits to be public if he thought it would make any difference in the election.

Murray 57, Rossi 43.

I know, let's cut military spending! Duh... what do you people want more? Jobs, or a war?

@7 "it's like The Boss said-
"He don't work and he don't get paid...."
It's really a simple concept."

Hey, asswipe.

The unemployed individual does not get paid for fervently applying for what little jobs exist, along with rewriting/submitting numerous resumes and cover letters. Let's not also forget the time spent going to interviews for the same position that some 200 people could possibly also be vying for.

Did I also mention that they may have rent or worse, a mortgage to pay? You know what isn't sufficient to pay one's mortgage? Unemployment benefits, and your assuming that they are simply going to sit on this pittance shows just how short your scale and scope of understanding REAL people's predicaments really falls.

You're goddamned right it is work, but this wouldn't ever matter to you.
They are jobless, so to people like you they must be scum and certainly deserve to be where they are.

Get bent, and get a life.

For Rossi, cancelling his last "how to flip forclosures and get rich, Rich, RICH!" seminar is an "emergency".

Typical Republican canard. They swelled the deficit with their accounting tricks which they used to get a trillion dollars for a useless war. Whatever happened to Tea Bagger and Palin favorite Clint Didier? He just shut up all of a sudden? Palin has nothing to say either?