Bush, Whose Policies Brought On The Economic Catastrophe, Now Opposes An Unemployment Extension

With unemployment claims at a 7 year high and the entire economy headed into a tailspin, Congress overwhelmingly passed an extension on unemployment benefits last Friday. It was a huge bipartisan recognition of the fundamental problems facing real life Americans with every single Democrat and all but the 28 most reactionary Republicans in the House voting for it. At the time I proposed that among the mostly safe seat extremists who voted NO, there are 4 GOP incumbents in danger of losing their seats-- Michele Bachmann (R-MN), John Culberson (R-TX), Bill Sali (R-ID), and, worst of all, John Shadegg (R-AZ). We noted that they are "dangerous extremists who hate Americans."

Yesterday the worst of the lot joined them in opposing an extension of unemployment insurance: George Bush. The White House instead said people should "get back to work." Anyone who doesn't vote to put every Republican who appears on their ballot in November onto the unemployment roles must be a real self-loathing masochist.

Barack Obama has a different perspective about unemployment than Perino, Bush, McCain and the Republicans: