WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton is unhappy with a new TV ad that uses his likeness in claiming President Barack Obama has fatally undermined the welfare reform legislation Clinton signed in 1996.The ad, released Tuesday morning by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, shows Clinton signing welfare reform into law. Then it says Obama "quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements.""Governor Romney released an ad today alleging that the Obama administration had weakened the work requirements of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act," Clinton said in a statement Tuesday evening. "That is not true."The 1996 reform ended welfare as a federal entitlement and transformed it into a program run by states within certain federal rules. Last month, the Obama administration announced it would allow states to apply for waivers from some of the rules if states had better ways of getting welfare recipients into jobs.While the Romney campaign has suggested the Obama administration made its welfare decision to foster a Democratic "culture of dependency" by making it easier for people to stay on welfare, Clinton pointed out that two Republican-controlled states had requested the waivers.
they are forgetting again "it's in the media stupid"does it not piss you off that they think they can lie with impunity and we'll just lap it up like their base? we are expected like their base to not believe or lying eye's and ear's. i'm not playin' that game ARE YOU?
"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," Clinton said.
Clinton added that Republican governors, including Mitt Romney, sought a similar policy in 2005 (a charge the Romney campaign has denied).
ohhhh the freakin' hypocracy, audastic BS right wing Romneylony
