Legally, the federal "government" may hand out mandates to the states, provided those mandates come already funded.

PA has the length of benefits limit set by state law. Numerous times, when unemployment reached a set threshold, weeks were added as a "Federal Extension of benefits", I presume with Federal money. When the rate falls below the threshold the extra weeks stop, I don't think any changes of the law or action by the state legislature is needed.

This was the crux of the discussion. IIRC, It was initially funded by the stimulus package , but it wasn't clear who was funding what in the future.

You're right and I think that is at the heart of the "talking points"

Sarah Palin:
Ignorance or intentional misinformation?

WIth most governors, I would write it off as simply a political response that plays loosely with the facts.

With Palin, it might be ignorance.

It sounds like she is opposed to a temporary expansion of unemployment benefits to residents of Alaska who may have reached the limit by making a case that she would be "stuck with paying for them" in the future.

But she'll take the money for Alaska in the bill.

I don't think so Merc. I admit when dems are corrupt and stupid and wrong. You rarely criticize republicans.

pffft. Sarah Palin. Have you heard she owes a whole bunch of back taxes? :lol2:

Yea, that is the rumor, however there is no rumor to the fact that a number of Obama appointees and choices for high level cabinet positions owe. :D

And yet several Republican governors are still putting out talking points misrepresenting the expansion of unemployment insurance in the stimulus bills.

Yea, and then a black Demoncratic Congressman stated on national news that it was a decision driven by racism.

Clyburn's comments were ignorant and counter-productive.

But the fact remains that citizens in some states who are facing economic hardship may not be assisted through the stimulus bill as a result of political misrepresentations of the bill by several Republican governors rather than anything factual.

No doubt. But he made them and his comments reflect the attitude of many, that he is a victim and victimhood is good, because it makes excuses for so many failings.

Actually those misrepresentations have been made by the Demoncrats. Pelosi and Reid have making promises they cannot keep and know will provide less than what everyone who said this was the answer to our nations ills then they can deliver. It is water under the bridge at this point. Now it is time to see if they can deliver. The people are watching. It will be a death knell IMHO if they screw it up.

You really aren't thinking that adds to your credibility, are you?

It's the joke that's still just as funny as it was on day one!

:lol:

Yeah, it's right up there with "Lieberals", "Clintoon", "Shrub", and "Obamanation".

Plays on words (from either "side") are friggin' TIRED the moment they are thought of. By the time they're actually POSTED, they're insufferably boring.

However, the type of person who uses them usually does so out of an OCD-esque NEED to, as if God might punish them if they forget to hate the target of their screeds in even so small a fashion.

Nope...in fact, the misrepresentations are made by a few Republican governors.

Bobby Jindal (a Repub candidate for pres in 2010?) is the latest.....turning down more than $90 million in federal unemployment insurance benefits for residents of Louisiana with the false claim that it would result in a tax increase for state businesses.

Makes Jindal sound like a partisan "demon" to me.