Today the Romney campaign and the RNC have released a new ad that highlights President Obama’s decision to remove the work requirements from the successful 1996 bipartisan welfare reform. Take a look.
As a candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama promoted the “dignity of work.” But fast forward four years and his administration has advertised to expand the welfare rolls, has sought to get working middle class families on welfare, and has now ripped the work requirement out of that bipartisan reform that the Republican Congress passed and President Bill Clinton signed into law. Obama used an executive order to do away with the work requirement, unilaterally undoing a law duly passed by Congress. The majority of Americans supported the welfare reform at the time it was passed, and still support it today. About 83% of Americans support the work requirement that President Obama unilaterally removed from the welfare reform.
Important ad.
But someone should perhaps be a little more aggressive and speak about the “army” that Obama is gathering with his executive orders and with the political use of the DoJ: illegals, welfare addicts, “voters” who for some strange reason (like…previous death) cannot get an ID.
This is an example of what I genuinely do not understand about the Republicans. Why are they not aggressively fighting this in court?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but nowhere in the Constitution is the President granted the power to modify laws or exempt certain parties from certain laws. So on what authority is Obama doing this? And why is Congress allowing it?
Who controls the Senate? Harry Reid, the same man who is accusing Romney of not paying his taxes for 10 years. As long as the Senate is in Reid’s hands, it will not cooperate with any move to do anything about Obama’s power grabs. The House alone can’t act – it takes both houses of Congress to stop a rogue president.
– ought to be talking about this at his appearances and the need to gain the Senate, instead of responding to Dirty Harry on tax returns.
As to where is the GOP–the GOP is honestly trying as to the best of their ability, but either effort or ability simply do not seem up to the challenges of the historical moment
This is fundamentally a cultural issue. It will be won by the people themselves drawing lines in the sand and sticking by their beliefs when the lines inevitably get crossed by a crowd that thinks they have the winds at their back.
It is my profound belief that only by making it clear that continued pursuit of Democratic policy objectives via “any means necessary” methods, by what is fundamentally a minority of the populace attempting an imperium, will result in everything repeat *everything* being put on the table for “discussion”, that only by this will a less aggressive form of politics be practiced by the left. I smply have no hope of self-discipline from that side, and it will take more time than available to get some level of proportion in cultural institutions that would serve as a damper on the excesses of the left. The people are going to have to do this one on their own.
The left has made it clear that if not challenged they intend to do as they please, rule or no rule, law or no law. It only remains to others to determine how they intend to meet this challenge.
Basically, I think the message to the Democrats should be this–”if you think you are going to just simply do what you want when you want, ignore law in order to cobble together supporters, demonize and slander as you please, use the force of the government to penalize opponents, somehow win via a few independents in the middle yinging your way this time, and then everybody is just supposed to follow whatever rules you put down after you win–you are sadly mistaken if you think what you did to win is going to be forgiven or forgot.
Your side may be wishing to be ignorant and free at the same time, but I assure you mine ain’t. We understand it is a national condition that never has been and never shall be.”
I’ve seen the statists’ response that GOP governors, including Romney in 2005, requested or are requesting “similar” waivers. Color me skeptical, but these sites haven’t cited exactly what those governors asked for. I’m also aware that 2005 is very different from 2012.
I tried digging deeper, but got 4 pages of Google searches of Huff, Kos & the rest of the echo chamber repeating the claim ad nauseum. Anyone else look into this claims?
Read Klaus files, got my answer.