[gop_gene]

Bush's latest actions are just the latest in a pattern of directing federal dollars away from working families and toward special interests and the wealthiest Americans. Bush recently refused to support an extension to unemployment benefits, meaning more than 800,000 American families will be without any income three days after Christmas.

They should put some violin music on their web site to accompany this sob story.

[HankReardon]

I think everyone knows people who work for cash while collecting unemployment right up until right before their benefits run out, then they miraculously find a job. The unemployment rate continues to stay where it is BECAUSE of the extension. There's as many workers working 2 jobs as there are workers "unemployed."