Senate breaks Republican kill-the-bill filibuster of Unemployment Insurance Extension

millions of victims of this REPUBLICAN DYSTOPIA have been granted a reprieve from the GOP's new found religion of deficit reduction.....



see the Huffington post article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/unemployment-extension-bi_n_652805.html



The Senate voted 60-40 on Tuesday to move forward with reauthorizing unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, 2.5 million of whom have missed checks since the end of May as Republicans and conservative Democrats filibustered several bills to renew the aid. After a final Senate vote, the bill goes to the House, which will vote on Wednesday.

"It shouldn't take a supermajority to help families afford the bare necessities while unemployment is rising," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) after the vote. "It shouldn't take the slimmest of margins to do what is right."

Defeating the filibuster clears an easy path toward the president's desk this week. People who missed checks will be paid retroactively; people who exhausted all weeks of benefits available before the lapse will not get anything.

The great debate pitting deficit reduction against jobless aid is over -- until November, when it is certain to return. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that the president will push for an additional extension of benefits when the current one expires shortly after the midterm congressional elections.

Won't that be a boon to the economy?

"Crush the poor" is.

Sometimes I think some people will spend $1000 to prevent $100 from reaching the hands of a poor person.

It doesn't. Reid is afraid of calling the Repubs bluff.

Force them to filibuster!

When does something become important enough that the Dems are willing to force the filibuster? They should make the Repubs drown in their own stupidity.

to contemplate.