Former House Majority Leader (and former Dancing With The Stars contestant) Tom DeLay argued that extending unemployment benefits “keeps people from going and finding jobs.”
On State of the Union yesterday, Candy Crowley asked DeLay about Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-KY) filibuster that delayed the extension of unemployment benefits. DeLay praised Bunning, and added that “there’s some studies that have been done that shows that people stay on unemployment compensation and they don’t look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.”
Crowley pointed out that saying “people are unemployed because they want to be” is a “hard sell.”
DeLay responded: “Well, it is the truth.”
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DeLay also talked about his stint on Dancing With The Stars, joking: “Hopefully my political future is I’d get to go back on Dancing With the Stars.
I just thought it would be the greatest thing — the best fun, and it was the best I’ve ever had. It was just amazing. I mean, it was a lot of work, and my feet killed me the whole time. And I broke both feet. But I just had the best time.
(TPM PHOTO GALLERY: DELAY FEELS THE AGONY OF DE-FEET)
