I think I mentioned that insurance for the long-term unemployed would not get extended if it wasn’t made part of the Murray-Ryan negotiations. Right now, the Senate Republicans are balking because they want to be able to offer more amendments to the legislation, but if it wasn’t that, it would be something else. Their base hates the poor, hates the unemployed, and hates anything that the president wants to do. So, people suffer needlessly because of some procedural excuse.
And even if it does eventually get through the Senate, the House will have their own set of excuses.
