Representative Lee Terry (R-NE) has decried the unemployment extension measure that passed yesterday as symbolic of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) "arrogance."

The complaint was not about the extension of benefits per se but about the limitation of the extension to the 27 states where the official (grossly underestimated) unemployment rate is over 8.5 percent.

Tweeted the congressman:

...That excludes Nebraska. Why is an unemployed person in California more worthy of help than an unemployed person in Nebraska? I voted NO.

He has a point. The money will come from the $787 economic stimulus package which has already been passed.

Congressman Terry has represented Nebraska's Second Congressional District in the Omaha area since 1999.