From an email I received today encouraging me to donate to Boxer's re-election campaign:
Late Thursday night, just as the Senate was poised to extend unemployment benefits to those Americans who are struggling to find work, gridlock returned with a vengeance.
Shockingly, Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky objected over and over again to efforts to pass this critical extension, and now unemployment benefits for more than a million Americans -- including 201,000 Californians -- will expire tonight.
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I can't believe that a single senator would be so callous and insensitive to the well-being of more than a million American families. By blocking efforts to extend unemployment benefits, the tone of the debate sunk to a new low.
Yes, Senator Boxer, I can believe it. What is actually shocking is your faux outrage and incredulity. If you want to shock me further, the majority party in the Senate extended benefits to Californians like me who are unemployed. (Since November 8, 2008 for me, two after Obama was elected President).
So shock me. Stop acting so shocked. And govern like a majority. Otherwise, come November you'll be retired by Democratic Californians out of apathy, not outrage. Who wants to vote for someone who is shocked--shocked I tell you!--that the minority party is actually running the Senate.
I can't give you $5, or any dollars. The only thing you can extract from me is my vote, and rolling over to the Republican party is the worst way to go about doing that.