Malloy listeners: What was that thing about 'unemployment loans'?

[Newsjock]

I only heard him for a few minutes in the car earlier tonight (early in hour 2 of the show, I believe), but he was reading or talking about something that said the Republicans wanted to do away with unemployment compensation and replace it with "unemployment loans" (his phrase) that recipients would be obligated to repay, thus forever putting workers in service of their debts.

The Google doesn't seem to give me anything about this, just stories about federal loans to states to cover the costs of their unemployment coverage.

What was he talking about?

[Hannah Bell]

1. I find this: Jim DeMint

Although President Barack Obama is taking heat from his own party for the extent of his compromise on the tax cuts, DeMint told Hewitt that Republicans gave up too much in the deal.

"Most of us who ran this election said we were not going to vote for anything that increased the deficit," he said. "This does. It raises taxes, it raises the death tax. I don't think we needed to negotiate that aspect of this thing away. I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work...

DeMint added that he sees the solution to the ongoing tax cut debate as a "permanent extension" of the tax rates implemented under the administration of former President George W. Bush.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/jim-demint-tax-cut-filibuster_n_793585.html

[Newsjock]

2. Ahhhh, thanks

Wow, DeMint is striving for an entirely new level of douchebag of liberty.

[sueh]

3. Jim DeMint and his Repuke pals are just plain despicable.

[OHdem10]

4. When they were trying to get this Tax Bill passed, Republicans

were not at all interested. Some Republicans strongly
suggested we could not afford to keep this up unless we
make it a loan they must pay back.