from a wingnut blog:

This is a good first step - the GOP blocked a Democratic effort to give $250 to Social Security recipients to replace the money that they didn’t get from having a COLA increase this year. Since inflation was so low, there was no need for a cost of living increase and The seniors got an extra-large bonus in 2009 because of a short-term spike in gas prices, but the Democrats weren’t interested in letting a little reason like that stand in their way.

Michelle Malkin has more on how the extensions on unemployment benefits are affecting small businesses.

how long will 40 million americans on social security and 8 million unemployed americans take the back of the hand from the GOP and yet still vote for them?