Over the weekend, President Obama took a shot at Senate Republicans for holding up an extension of the regimen under which Americans can collect unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks.

But at Hot Air, Jimmy Bise points out that Republicans aren’t actually blocking the extension. They’re demanding that it be paid for with corresponding spending cuts. Their position is strangely similar to another one, expressed in February. I’ll just eliminate the suspense now and tell you that this is what President Obama said when he patted himself on the back for signing the “pay-as-you-go” law: