Things the Republicans don’t care about:
More than two million jobless Americans are entering the holiday season seized with varying levels of foreboding, worry or even panic over what lies ahead as they cope with the expected cutoff of their unemployment benefits…
…The federal extensions have been customary in past recessions and their aftermath, but they have become ensnared lately in political jousting over the soaring budget deficit…
…By the end of December, more than two million are set to lose their extended benefits, according to estimates by the National Employment Law Project, and about a million more by the end of January.
That “political jousting over the soaring budget deficit” only happens when it comes to giving checks to deadbeats. When it comes to paying for war or giving a tax break to millionaires, suddenly the Republicans are joustless. Meet the new Speaker, Ebenezer Boehner.
