"If Congress refuses to act, it won’t just hurt families already struggling – it will actually harm our economy. "

The only way to get congressional repugs to vote to approve unemployment benefits or anything else, Mr. President is to somehow trick them into thinking it will hurt the country and get them the Senate in 2014 and the White House in 2016. You can't appeal to the better nature of people who don't have one.




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