Comments on: Reed crafts deal with chastened GOP on taxes, jobless benefits

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Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:01:03 +0000

[...] Senator Jack Reed has done some savvy legislating in recent weeks to help his home state. The payroll tax deal included provisions to give high-unemployment Rhode Island longer jobless benefits and to provide [...]

By: Justin Katz

Justin Katz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:19:18 +0000

Just to be clear: I’m not disagreeing about whether there was a drubbing. I’m honestly wondering what “it” was that looked like one.

By: Ted Nesi

Ted Nesi — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:32:46 +0000

We can agree to disagree, Justin, but it looked like a “drubbing” to me.

By: Justin Katz

Justin Katz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:30:45 +0000

Ted,

Where’s the drubbing? The link that you added to the word provides only three arguable bits of non-specific evidence:

1. Obama and Democrat legislators don’t like the Republicans.
2. A single congressman from Ohio is quoted without the context of his reasoning.
3. Congress’s approval as a whole has gone from 11% to 10% since December, which could just as easily be attributed to the Senate’s refusal to find cuts to offset the payroll tax reduction.

By: YRI

YRI — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:16:51 +0000

A pure fluff promo piece of , by, and for Rhode Island’s senior Socialist US Senator. He is utterly clueless about what the US Constitution requires and the proper role of government. And, like this state he is what political decadence ia about.

By: Justin Katz

Justin Katz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:01:07 +0000

“chastened by the drubbing”

I’ve been busily out of the loop on much of this sort of news, so I certainly may have missed something. Of what, precisely, did this “drubbing” consist?

By: Downsized54

Downsized54 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:24:43 +0000

Not a good deal for people without work.