No Unemployment Relief For You

The Senate blocked unemployment benefit extension from coming up for a vote. The story is from the AP, who doesn't like bloggers linking to them, so I'll just excerpt a fair-use amount of their text without linking at all.

Senate Republicans blocked legislation Tuesday that would have given an extra three months of jobless benefits for all unemployed Americans, but congressional Democrats plan to bring the bill back by attaching it to an Iraq war funding measure.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., tried to bring the House-passed unemployment extension bill up for quick consideration in the Senate, but was stymied by an objection from Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Senate's No. 2 Republican. It takes unanimous agreement to fast track a bill in the Senate.

Good thing the Republicans are standing up against giving away money to the undeserving, unlike the economic stimulus pac-

Doh!

Of course, UI extension is an actual stimulus to the economy, but the GOP wouldn't want to break their streak of failed policies.