Romney’s Utterly Mendacious (and Effective) New ‘Welfare Queen’ Attack
Ed Kilgore
August 8, 2012 | 11:05 am
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The most immediate outrage is that the ad’s central claim is, to use a technical term, a lie. The Obama administration has not changed the architecture of the 1996 welfare reform law at all.
What it has done, as a response to repeated requests by governors from both parties for flexibility in administering the law—a demand Republicans, including Mitt Romney, have been making from practically the moment it was signed—is to say it was open to offering waivers that exclude states from precisely those regulations that inhibit rather than encourage placing welfare recipients in jobs.
more:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/105911/romneys-utterly-mendacious-and-unfortunately-effective-new-attack-obama-and-welfar
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