Interesting strategy by the Democrats, bringing the bill up with a procedure that required a 2/3 majority to pass, so it would be sure to fail.

Three main reasons

1) Apples grow on trees

2) You can’t divide by zero

3) Spartan Equals practiced homosexual pedophilia

They are deficit hawks

This is terrible news for the jobless. BUT “the Democrat majority” didn’t actually vote against the measure.

Anyone who checks your web link will see that the measure passed on a majority vote basis, but for some reason it was sent to the floor under a rule requiting a 2/3 vote.

I don’t know why the Dem leadership would send it to the floor under a rule requiring a 2/3 vote. But the “Democrat majority” actually didn’t vote against it.

Beacause this is an appropriations bill, they really only needed a simple majority of 50%. The democrats pulled a switch, requiring a 60% vote, and it still won. Note that they did the opposite on ObamaCare, that should have required a 60% vote, but they skirted the rules by pretending ObamaCare was just an appropriations bill so they only needed 50%.

Anyway, the Republicans would have been for the extension, but they wanted to use up the unspent TARP money. The dems wanted to keep that stash, in case they needed to buy the votes of a Louisiana or Nebraska senator, as they did on ObamaCare.

Anyway, all’s well that ends well. All those unemployed people will now be asing JOBS, not handouts, and the Dems will have to get on board. Cut the taxes, quit spending, and put America back to work.

Republicans in the House Thursday blocked a bill that would have extended jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed beyond the holiday season.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101118/ap_on_bi_ge/us_jobless_benefits
Care to rephrase your question?

Has anyone ever noticed that, especially during the holiday season, when we are all called upon to “give” or to “help out the poor”, you never see a story in the news of someone HELPING THEMSELVES instead? I submit as the greatest example of “over-reliance on the government” is Hurricane Katrina’s Aftermath and the signs “Please Help Us”. Did anyone think of stealing water, food, or even a BOAT while they were heisting those electronic goods? And, if as some would claim, they were “too poor to leave”, who made them that way? Similarly, I believe a lot of “unemployed” are made up of people who just won’t work at a lower job which does not pay “their worth” while that unemployment check pays more! Need a job? Walmart, Toys are Us, target, etc, are hiring, even in Nevada! Choice #2: JOIN THE MILITARY!

The Right sounding Bill can be filled with bad stuff, that’s what got us into this in the 1st place,
Consider that HB xxx is called “The save America from Itself” bill, a bill introduced by the Far right/left but has provisions tacked on by the Extreme left/right to make almost every provision useless and impossible to comply with. Who would vote for that? examples are multitudinal of bills authored by well meaning Patriots who re read the final version and couldn’t sign what they thought they wrote.

12.5 Billion to extend it to Feb. Holly Molly we ain’t got the money. It is x-mas time and I see help wanted signs everywhere. Why do they not apply for work now.
At this time, Senate Democrats do not have a plan to bring the jobless measure up as a stand-alone bill. Renewing benefits, however, may be a part of other negotiations with regard to taxes and other end-of-year legislation.

Remember the Republicans do not have the majority yet. The Dem’s did a 2/3 thingy because rather than a 50/50 just to make a point that the Democrats will spend us into oblivion and the Republicans are heartless. Don’t you just love political manipulation. How could the Rep. be for a bill that was not even a straight up or down vote if other things would be added that haven’t been mentioned yet. See how the Dem’s think we are stupid.