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Subscribe to RSSBill Clinton in a statement on Romney’s welfare attack: “Governor Romney released an ad today alleging that the Obama administration had weakened the work requirements of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. That is not true. The act emerged after years of experiments at the state level, including my work as Governor of Arkansas beginning in 1980. When I became President, I granted waivers from the old law to 44 states to implement welfare to work strategies before welfare reform passed.
“After the law was enacted, every state was required to design a plan to move people into the workforce, along with more funds to help pay for training, childcare and transportation. As a result, millions of people moved from welfare to work. The recently announced waiver policy was originally requested by the Republican governors of Utah and Nevada to achieve more flexibility in designing programs more likely to work in this challenging environment. The Administration has taken important steps to ensure that the work requirement is retained and that waivers will be granted only if a state can demonstrate that more people will be moved into work under its new approach. The welfare time limits, another important feature of the 1996 act, will not be waived. The Romney ad is especially disappointing because, as governor of Massachusetts, he requested changes in the welfare reform laws that could have eliminated time limits altogether. We need a bipartisan consensus to continue to help people move from welfare to work even during these hard times, not more misleading campaign ads.”
USA Today: “Former President Bill Clinton is backing up successor Barack Obama, blasting a Mitt Romney ad attacking the incumbent over welfare reform as untrue.”
The Romney campaign’s response from Ryan Williams: “President Obama was a vocal opponent of the innovative, bipartisan welfare reforms that President Clinton and a Republican Congress passed in 1996. His administration has now undermined the central premise of those reforms by gutting the welfare-to-work requirement. Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has a record of fighting to strengthen work requirements. As president, he will ensure that nearly sixteen years of progress aren’t erased with one stroke of a pen.”
The Boston Globe: “Romney says Obama favors 'culture of dependency'.”
The Iowa wind story isn’t blowing away: “Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has been savaging what it calls President Barack Obama’s ‘unhealthy’ obsession with ‘green jobs,’” the AP writes. “The Republican challenger criticizes the government program that propped up solar manufacturer Solyndra, and he mocks Obama’s vision of a boom in employment, citing a European study to argue that new solar or wind-energy positions would destroy jobs elsewhere. But when a campaign spokesman said last week that Congress should let a tax break for wind energy producers expire at the end of the year, some Republicans were concerned the candidate had gone too far.
“Republican Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, noting that nearly 7,000 Iowans work in the wind industry, assailed the Romney campaign for ‘a lack of full understanding of how important the wind energy tax credit is for Iowa and our nation.’ Iowa’s senior senator, Chuck Grassley, told reporters he didn’t believe Romney really opposed the extension, and he joined five other GOP lawmakers in voting for it in the Senate Finance Committee.”
“A group that opposes the Boy Scouts of America’s ban on gay members is using presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to help make its case,” the Boston Globe notes. “Romney’s campaign restated his position that gay people should be allowed to join the Boy Scouts of America in an Associated Press story published on Saturday. Romney first declared his support for gay scouts and leaders in 1994 -- when he was a member of the organization’s executive board -- during an unsuccessful run for US Senate. In a debate that year, Romney said, ‘I support the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue. I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.’ Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the AP that the former Massachusetts governor nominee feels the same way today.”
The RNC announced more speakers at their convention, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whom RNC Chair Reince Priebus called a headliner. Also speaking: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is African American; Texas Republican U.S. Senate Nominee Ted Cruz; Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño; and Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens.
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Funny...Clinton can lie straight faced to the nation and they still love him.
Stupid democrats.
It's in the blood pondering...I did not have sex with that woman, I would never lie, my name is Bill Clinton..... and Obama is a God, my wife works for him.
Ironic? You can watch Romney lie with a straight face and you still love him? Pot meet kettle.
Love for Bill Clinton is not ironic. In spite of his (personal) shortcomings, he never betrayed the middle class, he never betted against his own country, he knew how to deal with the economy that Bush/Cheney destroyed. He was a president that served the whole country, not only the 1%. Of course we love him!!!!
We know what Bill lied about ( the rest of us would have done the same thing) but who knows what Mitt is lying about besides his taxes.
A good place to start with the budget deficit is to cut the benefits and salaries of our politicans. If they need help in running the Government we retired people will donate our services. Let's bring this country back to the people and for the people!
I believe that everyone should hear at least one of Grover Norquist's speeches and they'll find out that this man is scary and he's the man in charge of the Republican side of the election (according to him). He tells the Republican Party which Republican should get re-elected and which one shouldn't. For a lobbyist, he's got more to say about the way the Senate and House votes on the bills than anyone and he seems to believe that he has more power than the President. I heard him speak on CSPAN last night and that's my first experience with him. That's why I say he's scary. According to him he has this election in November in the bag.He was showing a map of the lower states showing which states they've changed the voting districts in and he said he's pretty sure he has the election under control and for all the Republicans not to worry. If a lobbyist can control the elections like he thinks he can, this country is in terrible shape. He was also talking about the budget andwhat should be omitted and he made the statement that "welfare is not covered under the constitution so therefore it shoudn't be in the budget. I didn't hear what he intended to do with these people but I know it wouldn't be good. He made the statement that unemployment should stop and everyone would go back to work. He's SCARY!!!!!
Watched him yesterday on C-Span......you are right he is scary.
How dumb can the Romney campaign be to quote Bill Clinton knowing full well he would personally refute the reference and use it to endorse Obama and make Mitt look like an idiot!
Romney lies. Like most Republicans Romney lies and then he'll apologize later having already put the wrong idea in your head. I think they used to do the same thing to brainwash people in Nazi Germany. ...
And the Kenyan god king has SEALED all his personal records: anyone who makes a statements without facts: is barely functioning with a 10% mental capacity@!
I'm so tired of these right-wing racists picking on women, children and the poor.
Don't you have anything better to do except preach hate and selfishness?
Welfare is less than 1% of the budget..and while all spending needs to be looked at...poverty stricken people...largely women and children should be the LAST place..not the first.
The FIRST place to look at is right at aholes like Mitt Romney who get rich by ripping apart struggling American industry in times of trouble and then avoid paying their fair share of taxes. The reason Romney won't release his returns is because he doesn't want America to know that he used every loophole in the tax code to avoid paying money on the income he made while middle class Americans were paying to make up for his (and others like him) shortfall.
No one running for political office in the US owns a Swiss bank account...which by the way, is the only country in the world that CHARGES you for a bank account...unless they're trying to hide something.
You right-wing aholes are always trying to elect criminals into the damned whitehouse...and we had enough with GW Bush JR...who didn't even get elected.
We know the "fool me once" quote...unlike your monkey Bush Jr...and we intend to abide by it. Keep your criminals at your lame ass teabagged rallies and out of Washington.
Obama/Biden 2012!
You are such a typical Sheeple..Lets all watch MSNBC at night while waving our middle class American flag and do exactally what we're told..You preach against preaching hate and selfishness and turn right around and preach the same thing you're preaching against..I'll agree with you that women and children should be cared for..That we agree on..but..What about women that have six, seven, or even eight children out of wedlock?..How many is too many for us to care for?..Just something to ponder..It used to be in this country that if you worked hard and had the brains/luck to make millions you were looked upon as someone to be proud of, to use as an example to others that hey, if you come here and work hard that you too might make it rich someday..But no more..It seems like the word "rich" is a 4 letter word now..Something dirty, something to be looked down upon..And I cant understand that..So what if Romney has money in a swiss bank account..Its his, he can do with it or keep it where he damn well pleases..What about members of Congress that have the right to own stock and participate in insider trading in companies that they will be voting on to recieve government assistance?..Which is more "wrong"..I'm way down the food chain..Down near the bottom trying to survive on 16 thousand dollars a year..I dont feel one bit of jealousy or anger towards Romney or Biden or Obama or anyone else for making millions of dollars a year..I actually applaud them..you on the other hand need to maybe take a xanax and chill a bit..I think I see a vein ready to pop on your forehead
Welfare is what % of the budget!
TRILLIONS just for the Race=666=LaRaza Dial#2 for Spanish...which the Dems voted against making E N G L I S H:\
our official language of the the USA: not once but twice!
And when there are more ILLEGITIMATES and FOOD STAMP teet monger- please tell me how a workers can afford to pay for their vehicle, home, med/life/etc insurance, gas/maintenance/ utilities taxes then be able to feed themselves when there are more non contributors than there are workers?
If you think that is possible: then you have never paid a dime to anything!
We have too many who think they are owed something: and that something is what my heritage lived, worked, and died to pass on to me...and we did not rubber stamp DNA nor did we blood suck from others labors!@
Our nation is doombed due to corp and public welfare: from womb tomb tomb...
No other nation welcomes it invaders then donates their SEATS of their MILITARY like our TRAITORS WITHIN have done by donating our TAXPAID US DEAD MILITARIES Seats in our TAXPAID UNIVERSITIES...aka DREAM ACT for
ILLEGALS, illegitimates, illiterates each generation:
Disgusting beyond comprehension and EVIL vs One Nation Under GOD
And when the USA is bankrupt...because this Kenyan god king's administration has given away more than all other administrations from the lst to present or all combined...where will you run to next?
This is so fun watching the Romney campaign IMPLODE!
The only sane choice in 2012 is Obama/Biden, and I did not vote for them in 2008. Looking at the issues, the middle and lower class voters choosing the Republicans in 2012 would be akin to mass suicide, metaphorically speaking. R&R have no clue what this country is about. What they see from their ivory tower has nothing to do with reality.
And I guess that Obama and Biden do have a clue as to what the middle and lower class in this country are all about..What a freaking jokester you turn out to be..Obama is all for taxing the rich to death..But tell me something..Who pays a larger amount of taxes..A man that makes 50 thousand a year and pays 32% in taxes or a man that makes 20 million a year and pays 12% in taxes..I'm not talking percentage wise..I'm talking ACTUAL money.The man that makes the 50 thousand after AGI will pay around 7 thousand in taxes..The man that makes 20 million will pay around 2 million..So who pays more..huh?..Obama will talk about ANYTHING except his record..Because he cant run on his record..What has he done to strengthen the middle class in America..He's completely shut down my neck of the woods..Coal..The rest of the world can burn coal at a record pace but we cant here because we have to save the world..Lead by example..Well that would be jim dandy if we all didnt live in a BOX..Does the EPA not realize that the coal they burn in china and India will eventually be in OUR air here? Thousands of jobs lost because we have to save the world..So dont talk to me about Obama saving the middle class..He's done the opposite..He's dropped the HAMMER on it..
I love both of the Clintons and will do what they say. It is that simple.
Bondi is a white woman.... not african american
These kind os issues have lots of moving parts and many can look at different direction and come out with different takes
I do not pay too much attention to it.
There is agreement on work but may be variation in commitment to the cause.
I in general support Romney
Since when is Pam Bondi, African American ?
Information on what qualifies as a "job" under the Obama proposal is what is at the center of this issue. The changes to the requirement of job seekers and what qualifies as work is what should be debated. Nobody is discussing the fine details that make this a very big issue. If you're working and you are going to be paying welfare aid to people who aren't, don't you want to know what the qualifications are to qualify for the Welfare to Work program?
Wake up and get informed so you understand the issue not just the bluster from either party.
I just keep reading these comments and people have the audacity to accuse romney of lying without any proof to back up their statements. I hope your the same people that whine and complain but don't go to the polls to vote as you show your ignorance with every post.
You can review all the promises made by our current president and make those comments because he has exposed all of his lies through his past promises and the current reversals of those same promises. We are all going to get hit with increased income tax based on his health care initiative. But he promised no middle income families would see an increase in taxes. That is flat out lying and liberals just sweep it under the rug. Typical liberal bias.
I'm sorry have to laugh at all these Obama supporters, you guys like to talk about the 1% and cry about them, but yet the people who make your laws are part of the 1%...The top 20 members of congress and most of them Democrats...Biden what an idiot, talking about the banks and wall street and how Romney is all for them...Well, lets see Obama got money from Goldman Sachs little over a million for his run as president, how wonderful that the Justice Dept didn't go after them...Guess Obama just paid his debt, but I wonder how much money Goldman Sachs will be giving this campaign...Then you have all those green projects that the Obama administration is handing out...we can start with Solyndra and the loans they got...so far Obama's tack record of giving out taxpayer money to his friends is unreal...But,it's nice that the executives at Solyndra did manage to show up for his last fundraiser...We can also go onto the $465 million given by his campaign contributor, Elon Musk and his company Tesla Automotive, who since he got his cash only had delivered as of July of this year 29 cars...Want to talk about sending jobs over seas...How about the millions taxpayers dished out to a company in Ca who produces solar panels, who then turned around and opened a factory in Mexico...way to go....Want to talk about a snake in the grass Obama is one of them
Please...I see you, just can't take it. Bet you don't sleep well at night wondering what's next on Mox News.
@!$%# we're ALL doing so good under obama's rule that I think we should just throw out the constitution and crown him KING..Doesnt matter that we're all out of work and drawing food stamps..Doesnt matter that we're 15 trillion dollars in debt...Doesnt matter that he promised to pentalize companies that out sourced jobs and has yet to do it.{he'll get to that in his second term, or his third, or his fourth}Doesnt matter that it will cost the average middle class american almost 4 thousand dollars in "New taxes" wink...wink.. when obama care kicks in next year...It doesnt matter that he's for dick suckers getting married..Hell, lets just vote him King, tax the rich at 95% and all sit at home and live the good life..Then in about 3 years when the uS is bankrupt, and we cant even borrow money from the chineese anymore to fix a pot hole in our street we can all still sit at home and eat our daily can of dog food {if we can find one}and blame the REAL culprit for all this mess...BUSH!!
If all the money from these super PAC were deposited in the US treasury, our deficit would be reduced. If Romney is the best candidate to fix our financial crisis, let him propose giving all the Super PAC money to the US treasury for deficit reduction. This is too little to ask from a man that has benefited from America the Beautiful.
30-second attack ads that can only be refuted by long explanations of technical details is exactly why they work. Call it 'Rovian psychology', or dumbed-down disinformation. Either way it's not too hard to figure out who the target audience is, those who won't or can't look past their TV for answers.
So what is a "TruePatriot"anyway?????
And are there really 445959 of them?????
Just wondering.
F the country. The crooks are going negative. The world must be laughing. Our election process is no better than the Egyptians. Personally I thing it is too late to save our country regardless of who is elected. The media lies. The President lies. Romney lies. Let's print a Trillion dollars tonight and give everybody some. Na, make it 5 trillion so Obama can double the debt during his 4 year term. Hell, that would be his only accomplishment.
Bill Clinton lie???? Billy and Hill dog both began their political lives with a land scam in Arkansas called white water. The lies and deception never stopped from there. I watched him state "I never had sexual relations with that women" None of the political candidates have stated any position at all. That will not keep you busy bodys from voting for them. All politions lie, that is what they are trained to do. As lawyers they must sell the lie. You vote for them then they kepp lieing. That is Democracy, that is the American way of life.
Hey folks: I really don't like either of the choices we have,but being self employed and working 65-75hrs/week to make the ends meet is really a struggle.I dont make over 250k but hope to someday,and after the years of struggle it may take to get there,It just doesn't set well with me that I'll be taxed more because after years of planning and paying off great debt I might make TOO MUCH MONEy,AND SHOULD PAY MY FAIR SHARE!!!!!! When someone can tell me what a fair share is then I'll believe it's not a run a way tax the achievers train wreck....anyway at the rate our country is going into debt,does anything matter???????
Slick WIllie stuff it you should have been hung along with GWBush for donating the USA's Defense System to the Communist Chinese...both of your are coward TRAITORS WITHIN...how can you even look in the mirror!
GSUSTGTLEG.........Please support the giving of US Defense system to China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honest Bill Clinton never lies! I didn't have sex with that women [well just a BJ}
I truly feel sorry for those whom are making adjectives like a play game: your inability to be aware of TRUTH is so defeating...the Communist laugh at the astrounding and remarkable idiots on parade venting on their keyboards as a contribution to ignorance contined and the downfall of the USA>..from within. Look in the mirror