Political Malpractice Insurance

by digby

I guess the Democrats have decided that the more than 700,000 poor schnooks who ran out of unemployment benefits since September have suffered enough and they are going to pass the badly needed extension over the objections of the Republican Scrooges next week. One assumes that the Republicans will not be able to muster enough votes to filibuster this particular bill, but you never know. (Of course, one might have assumed that for the last month, which raises the question as to why the Democrats let these people go without any income for a month while the GOP played with their acorns.)

I can’t imagine why the Dems didn’t make a huge, stinking deal out of this Republican obstructionism, and illustrate in living color for the American people what these cruel, petty ploys do to real people, but I guess they don’t want to upset the Republicans. After all, they wouldn’t want to be uncivil.

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