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 By and large, the Democrats on Capitol Hill don’t seem particularly interested in passing the Tier 5 unemployment extension bills that are adrift in subcommittees in both the House and the Senate. But in sharp contrast to the Democrats’ apathy, the Republican party is simply dead-set against the idea of Tier → Read More  106 comments - (Comments are closed)  Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), has indicated in multiple forums that the House Democrats might try to push Obama’s tax plan through before the House recesses for the midterm elections, but there’s no word at all about the unemployment extension bill proposed by Representatives Shelley Berkley (D-NV) and Jim McDermott → Read More 19 comments - (Comments are closed)  Earlier today, we looked at the Republicans’ Pledge to America through the lens of the 99ers and the eventual fate of the unemployment extension and Tier 5. The conclusion looked grim, but there is a lot more of the Pledge to be examined. Let’s jump right in. “We will require that every → Read More 24 comments - (Comments are closed)  The GOP today released the Pledge to America, a document carefully worded to take advantage of Americans’ dissatisfaction with their government — unfortunately, it makes clear that cries for public aid, from the 99ers’ need for the Tier 5 unemployment extension to Obama’s proposed small business assistance bill, are on the “to → Read More 24 comments - (Comments are closed)  Further proving that the election season and/or the coming of winter is galvanizing the 99ers that have spent most of the summer looking for jobs and doing armchair Internet politics, a 99er organization called One Nation Working Together has filed papers for a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on October 2nd, 2010. → Read More 32 comments - (Comments are closed)  Every 99er and most other Americans are aware of the Americans Want to Work Act, proposed by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D, MI) — otherwise known as the Tier 5 unemployment extension. It’s currently sitting fallow on the docket with no plans to address it, but as the winter months (and the November → Read More 25 comments - (Comments are closed)  It’s now clear that the Tier 5 unemployment extension is going to languish on the shelf until after the midterm elections. Hopefully, if they do lose their supermajority, the Democrats will at least push through a lame-duck session of Congress in order to pass Tier 5. But I’m afraid that, by then, → Read More 79 comments - (Comments are closed)  The Tier 5 Unemployment Extension is something that most Democrats can at least understand the reasoning behind. They want to help the country get back on its feet. Call it ‘looking out for your neighbor’ — or ‘socialism’ if you’re a Republican — but the Dems see a benefit in giving to → Read More 57 comments - (Comments are closed) | |||||
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