The unemployment extension bill might not have any Republican votes in the Senate and House Majority Leader Cantor said he will not bring a bill to the floor for a vote. The reasons the Republicans give for opposing extending unemployment benefits for 3 months are wide and varied. Could the primary reason for the opposition be to blame the Democrats for a bad economy? In other words, would the Republicans sabotage the economy for political gain?
First of all regardless of what the democrats tell you Republicans are not in the majority. If something doesn't get passed it is because the majority is not doing their jobs. In other words compromising.
Second it is only your opinion that says that not extending the benefits, if that is what the Republicans actually want, would be bad for the economy.
But let us say that the Republicans would do such a thing for political gain, what then is the reason that the democrats have been sabotaging the economy for that last 7 years that they have controlled at least 2/3s of the government?
The GOP House is doing everything it can to doom the economy. All you need to do is watch for a few days. The economy's gain is the GOP's loss. They have 3 more years of obstruction and stonewalling ahead, all the while praying that Obama doesn't get a chance to appoint a Supreme Court Justice. When it really doesn't matter. The GOP is finishing in national races, as far as the eye can see.
Their obstruction of any kind of immigration reform will doom them at the polls for generations to come....