The Presidents remarks about  Pushing For Up-Or-Down Vote On Help For Our Laid Off Friends & Neighbors are posted on the White House web site.

According to the Los Angeles Times article Obama pushes GOP to extend unemployment benefits:

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio fired back. In a prepared statement, Boehner said: “The president knows that Republicans support extending unemployment insurance, and doing it in a fiscally responsible way by cutting spending elsewhere in the $3-trillion federal budget.”

That has to be the dumbest idea the Republicans have ever had, and there is stiff competition for that honor. Republicans want to take some spending out of the budget that would have been used to hire people to do some useful work so that you can pay people for being unemployed.  I thought Republicans generally don’t favor disincentives to work.

Maybe even more stupid is the failure of any Democrat to harp on the Republican stupidity.