Obama backs extension of jobless benefits

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday officially threw its weight behind legislation making its way through Congress to provide additional weeks of unemployment benefits to help Americans hit by rising joblessness.

A bill to extend jobless benefits to nearly 2 million people has been approved by the House but has stalled in the Senate amid Republican objections over how to fund it.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59Q54A20091028

[midnight]

1. Now this is one of those times that our president should do one of those

midnight signing statements.....

[pattmarty]

2. IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!!!! Now, when the fuck is he gonna..............

..................get behind (any) "a" healthcare bill????



Barack "Bill Clinton" Obama. We are going to end up with a "shit" healthcare bill, a "shit" climate bill and a fucking SUPER SHIT bank/insurance "REFORM". If I wanted ANOTHER Bill Clinton, I would have fucking voted for Hillary!!!!!

[Yuugal]

3. You don't understand chess at all

What us grandmasters do is sacrifice alot of van jon...er... pawns and send our single payer queen out to die very quickly, so quickly in fact, many times we just pretend we don't have that piece and volunteer to play the side without it because we are good sports.