Obama Wants "Emergency" Extension of Unemployment Benefits After Signing Spending Bill That Has It Expiring Today For 1.3 Million People

Took a break from his Hawaii vacation

President Obama briefly interrupted his holiday vacation here Friday to urge Congress to pass an emergency extension of unemployment benefits.

With roughly 1.3 million out-of-work Americans set to lose their unemployment insurance starting Saturday, the White House said that Obama placed separate telephone calls Friday to Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) to offer his support for their proposal to extend benefits for three months.

Comments

[RightNut]

Shorter Obama: "Oops!"

[Rufus J. Firefly]

"President Obama briefly interrupted his holiday vacation here Friday."

Not only the most transparent ever but the hardest working evah!

[Andrew S.]

Why not just drop the charade and extend permanent benefits to anyone without a job? It's where we're heading anyways.

[fish_remote]

Why not just drop the charade and extend permanent benefits to anyone without a job?

That's just nuts Andrew....let's just get these good people through the 2014 midterms....then we'll wind it down.

[NotAnotherSkippy]

Green shoots take time to grow. We'll deal with that deficit thing in the future. I'll stop my heroin habit once I'm back on my feet.

[Sevo]

Obo wants "emergency extensions" of every one if his mistakes.

[Jerry on the boat]

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary emergency extension.

[Eric Bana]

This should fix everything.

[neoteny]

They have also said an extension would add to the federal deficit unless it is offset by spending elsewhere in the budget.

Nice Freudian slip.

[Weigel's Cock Ring]

The economy is doing great, you stupid Bush loving ratfuckers.

[NotAnotherSkippy]

Which is why we have to extend emergency unemployment insurance begun under the Bush administration... See? It's all Bush's fault. (At least on the spending side that's true).

[Sevo]

And Bush's wars came with a life-time guarantee! Guaranteed to continue through two Dem administrations!
That guy Bush is *amazing*!