Wonkette
Now that the New American Economy’s only path to profitability hinges on major corporations slashing as many salaries as possible, it would be nice of the government to extend unemployment benefits a little longer for starving permanently unemployed people who will probably die soon. (7,000 new ones a day!) A few Dems introduced a simple bill to do just that a few weeks ago. It hasn’t passed, though, because the Republicans attached numerous, unrelated amendments that more or less heckle ACORN and Mexicans for existing in White America.
Jon Kyl doesn’t understand — well, he does, but pretends he doesn’t — that unemployment benefits for every human do not all start on one day and end on another. Not everyone lost his or her job on the exact same day. Too bad, because that would do much to simplify things!
Moments ago, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) took to the chamber floor with a strange claim about the urgency surrounding legislation to extend unemployment insurance.
“The benefits haven’t run out yet,” Kyl said. “We’re going to pass this before the benefits run out.”
It’s tough to decipher exactly what he means. Roughly 400,000 folks exhausted their federal unemployment benefits in September, with another 200,000 projected to do the same by the end of October, according to a recent study by the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group. By the end of the year, NELP estimates that 1.3 million Americans will have exhausted their benefits unless Congress steps in with an extension. Each day the Senate dallies, another 7,000 people go off the rolls.
The Republican amendments include at least two provisions related to ACORN; one related to the E-Verify program; one to pay for the UI benefits with unspent stimulus money; and one providing tax relief.
Hooray for the existence of “easy rules to circumvent some random racist amendments” in the Senate! Hey, unemployed welfare losers: just eat your own poops for a few weeks, there are IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES about like ACORN to work out here. There is no margin for error.
Also, nice work with the enabling, Democrats. Remember last month or whenever, when the vast majority of you immediately caved to conservative demands to strip ACORN of funding after some wacky racist Andrew Breitbart video showed up on YouTube? Did you think that would somehow not encourage the GOP to be even more annoying about ACORN, seeing that it worked at first?
Kyl in No Hurry to Extend Unemployment Benefits [Wash. Independent]
This is why we need progressive dems in Congress- not just GOPlike bums. GRAYSON,GRAYSON,GRAYSON
ACORN delenda est.
Everyone in America is a god-damned pussy, especially democratic congress folk.
I don’t understand why they’re having so much trouble passing this bill — the lobby for the unemployed is a notorious powerhouse.
Is that graphic an epoxy ring doing a balancing act?
The Reid quote is telling: “It seems as if they aren’t negotiating in good faith on this.” When have the Reps ever negotiated in good faith? His credulity is why the Democrats in the Senate have accomplished so much despite the razor-thin margin of their majority.
So plz explain. The GOP hates ACORN because ACORN only supports adult or near-adult female hookers, right? No community programs for gloryholes or page asshole waxing?? Do I have this right?
ENRON, ACORN, whichever.
Jim, everyone knows Mexicans are lazy. What’s your point??
Massive die-offs of poors is just part of Jeebus’ plan for the next American (oops I mean Chinese) Century.
It’s just like Republicans to either hoard their nuts (e.g., Moldovan, Alaskan, or 14-year-old-boy-an) or defund them out of existence.
From Wikipedia (so it must be true!)
In September 2009 Kyl sponsored an amendment to strike language requiring health insurance providers to cover maternity care from a larger healthcare bill. “I don’t need maternity care,” said Kyl, “So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.”
Kyle needs a job that doesn’t affect other people. May I recommend urinal cake taster?
oh god, Sen. Kyl is the anti christ.
srsly. he is the neo- con who gave DICK Cheney a standing ovation and an award recently.
ACORN and teh illegalz are powerful forces. I think they caused the financial crisis. gotta be careful here. Kyl would like to help (well, not a lot because they aren’t voting for him, but …) there is a vital principle here: can the Republicans be as uncaring of the citizens as they are thought to be or are they even worse. plus, they have all the kooks in their base and boy are they ever nutters, so you don’t want to cross them. plus Kyl is is a dick. and the demmeycrats are wimps.
SayItWithWookies: The unemployed are second only to union members in the amount of time they have available to picket in support of their cause.
dammit! i’m on the internets so much because i AM on unemployment. even ACORN won’t hire me. pls mr party of no dude: i can haz my benefits?
When a shriveled up little prick like Joe Lieberman can stop the most important and intensely promoted Democratic initiative in half a fucking century, and still flummox his so-called party into letting him have his goddamned precious chairmanship of Homeland Security, at the same time - after having campaigned vigorously for the Republican candidate for president as well as other down ticket candidates - is it any wonder we’re gonna get screwed again, without getting kissed?
Mental midgets like John Kyl and that Texas asshole - I need to identify him better, everyone from Texas is an asshole - Cornyn, that’s his name - run circles around Reid.
Monsieur Grumpe: you are correct! That would be a perfect position for Sen. Kyl, in addition to bent over and grabbing his ankles for Cheney.
Even our own hero/savior Sanford extended benefits. He mistakenly thought that his soon-to-be-ex-wife would qualify, as “memoirist” is no longer a valid source of income unless your last name rhymes with Waylon.
http://washingtonindependent.com/65697/in-south-carolina-sanford-extends-unemployment-benefits
Feeding the sharks to make them go away. Works every time.
Democrats sure picked the right mascot, ‘cuz they love getting fucked in the ass. Party leadership mired in lobbyist cash, hamstrung by the DCCC mantra of “bipartisanship.” The only reason to not revile them is the fact that the Republicans are EVEN WORSE— NO LIE real evil child-fucking greedy liar nun-bashing devil kitten-stomping dbags. And stupid.
I picked the wrooong day to quit sniffin’ glue.
qwerty42: This would be funny had I not actually read, on the internetz, someone try to make the argument that ACORN and Barney Frank caused the crisis. I think this involved gay interracial orgies held inside the mansions of non-white subway sandwich artists who pay every month’s mortages with a new interest-free Amex.
SayItWithWookies: I personally send my congress critters as much hobo beans as I can afford in an attempt to sway their vote.
Goddamn it. I’m begging you people, kick my state out of the union. Between Kyl, McCain, Jake Flake, and Trent Franks, we’ve used up our fair share of exported stupid for the next century.
Rethugs must think 20% approval gives them plenty of room to work with.
Kyl has the largest human head ever measured. He wears a size 14 hat. Too bad it is mostly filled with robot juice & poop.
Also, for those decrying the Dems caving for repubs every time w/o fail — yeah, it looks like spineless incompetence, but maybe that’s just a misdirection ploy meant to distract us from the fact that ultimately their beliefs aren’t so different from the repubs. Same shit, different pile.
Gopherit: I can appreciate the volume of stupid that your state exports, but you’ll never match Georgia. We have Lyn Westmoreland of Colbert Report fame, Phil Gingrey (”I got my tea bags, heh, heh”), Sonny “Raindance” Perdue, the appropriately named Nathan Deal (whose Deals have him rolling in dough … so I guess he isn’t necessarily stupid), Paul Broun, Saxby Chabliss (probably the most repugnant politician Georgia has produced since Marvin Griffin), and John Oxendine, who’s plan is to defeat Liberalism in Georgia by paving over the east side of Atlanta, arguably the most liberal district in the state.
Gopherit: My sympathies, yes, Arizona should be given back to Mexico.
I got banned from Kyls facebook and I was respectful but had a different point of view,
when I pointed out Kyl chose to sign up for Medicare instead of continuing to buy private, subsidized health insurance.
P Drizzle: The day I heard some religious-nut lady blame the Democrats for making Larry Craig come on to men in bathrooms, I knew that everything in the world that was bad could be blamed on the Democrats.
Before the 2010 elections, it might behoove the Democrats to say, “We quit. We tried to work with the party of No. The bastards better make sure they have a pair of jammies in their senate offices because if they want to filibuster, they can damn well filibuster. Stand there day and night and keep talking.”
Or, the Democrats can just keep rolling over for these dickwads and lose everything in 2010.
Gopherit: I don’t know whether kicking Arizona out the union would be necessary. I just think DC should threaten to put the squeeze on all the water Arizona needlessly wastes so Arizonians would then be faced with having to make a choice between showering or golf courses.
I thought these people all had college degrees…
Come on, John Kyl. How ’bout walking a mile in the shoes of some unemployed fellow American whose benefits have run out? Actually, how about walking several hundred thousand miles in those shoes, over a burning hot desert of sharp rocks?
Re: Jon Kyl, though off-topic. I live, unfortunately, in Sen. Kyl’s state, so I felt it my duty to give him a piece of my mind concerning his NO vote on Franken’s “government contractors shouldn’t allow their employees to be raped” amendment. Yesterday I received in the mail a very thick envelope. It was filled with, not only the expected letter telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about, but also a big pile of photocopies. They were copies of every editorial ever published praising Kyl on any given subject, as well as letters from other “constituents” thanking Kyl for protecting America’s valued corporations. In all my long lifetime of writing fruitlessly to America’s rulers have I ever received such a huge waste of trees in response. I’m beginning to think that cowboy’s runnin’ skeered.
Jukesgrrl: I wish that were true. More likely, one of his staffers decided to try to insult you BY wasting paper. Really, for arrogance and ignorance, you can’t beat an Arizona Republican.
Still, I think he’s in for a surprise in 2012. Fucktardism will only take you so far in politics.
Jukesgrrl: Definitely reeks of desperation, but what a dick move on his part.
P Drizzle: Correction:
gay interracial MARRIED orgies
Jukesgrrl: Figures, eh. And the postage is your treat too. I email our reps in NC and only give a partial address. I figure it must get on their nerves when they can’t retaliate. Ü
Everyone talked up how “internet savvy” the Democrats were, because they used such arcane technology as Facebook, but that’s clearly bullshit. Reid and Pelosi consistently ignore the #3-ish rule of internet-ing: Never, ever, under any circumstances, feed a troll.
“It hasn’t passed, though, because the Republicans attached numerous, unrelated amendments that more or less heckle ACORN and Mexicans for existing in White America.”
This has practically been the reality of this nation’s minorities since the 60’s. I’ll be damned if they don’t make us pay for demanding to be treated as equal human beings. They have extracted their pound of flesh and then some. I wish I could be snarky, but I can’t.
The Republican Party’s loss of state sanctioned White Supremecy has set their focus like a laser on nothing other than simple payback and vengence, whether the individual party members, these days, consciously realize this or not.