The senators who have stood to protest the extensions [of unemployment benefits], even as they seek earmarked projects for their states, may have amnesia about their spend-happy pasts with unfunded Medicare expansion, war budgets taken off the books and horribly timed tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. And that's just the past 10 years. Other Americans don't suffer that memory loss, nor can they — and that's because they're feeling the effects and making the payments.
Cutting off unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans?
This is a funny time for the GOP to be getting religion about deficit spending — until you consider the base, and until you consider the road to November.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Revisionist history
Today's Courier-Journal includes this must-read editorial:
