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Unemployment Extension Update 3 - An online group that identifies with the tea party movement has launched a petition urging Americans to hold Republican leaders who enter into a compromise on an extension of Bush-era tax cuts and unemployment insurance accountable. Tea Party Patriots, which made the petition public last week, believes the deal between President Barack Obama and Republican leaders is a violation of the “Pledge to America,” a resolution or promise that House GOP leadership made in September. “The assault of ‘The Deal’ on ‘The Pledge’ will make the latter a joke, and instantly impacts the credibility of all future efforts to propose agendas to the electorate,” wrote the author of the petition. Unemployment Extension Update 3 The reasoning behind the latest petition was outlined, according to the website, by conservative radio entertainer Hugh Hewitt in a column — “Kill ‘the Deal’” — that was published on conservative site Townhall.com. Tea Party Patriots prov...