Well the President DID Use the Pulpit as a Bully Pulpit

this morning and hammered Congress over its inaction to pass extended unemployment benefits, including helping the exhaustees, one of whom was there with him who had been unemployed for two years.

Obama also mentioned the failure of Congress to pass anything because of "parliamentary maneuvers," important to note as the GOP is trying to hang the high unemployment rate on Democrats to help their chances in November.



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