a temporary increase during a recession is vastly different from the trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities of medicare part d and other programs passed under Bush.
If there is a time to promote unfunded spending, its during a recession, and if there is a good, reasonable program to spend it on, is on unemployment benefits.
But this whole thing tell me just how bad the dems are at branding and how weak they are: a single republican obstructs a vastly popular measure and still comes out as the reasonable guy...
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