You know by now that Mitt Romulan Romney swats at President Obama for "eliminating" the work requirement in Clinton's "Welfare To Work" legislation of 1996.
[Effective July 1, 1997], TANF was set for reauthorization in Congress in 2002. However, Congress was unable to reach an agreement for the next several years, and as a result, several extensions were granted to continue funding the program. TANF was finally reauthorized under the Deficit Reduction ACT (DRA) of 2005. DRA included several changes to the original TANF program. It raised work participation rates, increased the share of welfare recipients subject to work requirements, limited the activities that could be counted as work, prescribed hours that could be spent doing certain work activities, and required states to verify activities for each adult beneficiary. Wikipedia
Last summer I wrote elsewhere, Blame it all on the 35 one-hundredths of one percent
The mental picture of fat lazy slackers sitting watching TV all day while getting money from the Federal government for doing nothing is a persistent one. Perhaps the vivid thirty year old parables of political candidate Ronald Reagan have a psychological life of their own which no assembly of facts can lessen. If that is the case, then I’m wasting my time, but here’s hoping.
This morning,
Romney Defends Bogus Obama Welfare Ads, Dismissing Fact-Checkers
Even in the face of repeated debunkings by journalists, Romney's presidential campaign has continued to produce new ads falsely claiming that President Barack Obama ended the requirement that people on welfare, formally known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, engage in work.
What inconsequential stub does Mitt
Romulan Romney hang his hat on? Best I can figure, it is a bone-dry July 12, 2012
TANF Information Memorandum from Earl S. Johnson, Director, Office of Family Assistance, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I'm sure poor Mr. Johnson had no idea what a bogus sh*t-storm he was a-brewing with that memo.
Given these facts, along with a dreadfully humorous Republican Presidential primary campaign, I'm forced to confess that I was right about Mitt Romulan Romney all along. The more you know him, the less you like him.
If you combine the worst parts of George.W. Bush, Richard Nixon and Uncle Scrooge McDuck, and you get Mitt Romulan Romney.
ADDED: In a 1998 CNN interview, then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama said, " . . . I was not a huge supporter of the Federal plan we signed in 1996 . . . . " This is from an August 22, 2012 RNC video. I have no idea what CNN question Obama was answering.