Meet The Welfare Flip-Floppers GOP Guvs: We Didn’t Want Welfare Waivers We Asked For

[Tx4obama]

GOP Governors Attack Obama’s Welfare Waivers After Requesting Flexibility

Two Republican governors are backing away from their expressed interest in welfare reform waivers now that Mitt Romney has made the issue a centerpiece of his campaign against President Obama.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval were among five governors who sought flexibility for the states on alternative ways to achieve the law’s goal of moving recipients from welfare to work. In July, the Obama administration offered states the opportunity to receive a waiver from the 1996 law’s work participation requirements under the condition that more recipients find jobs. If not, they said, the waivers will be denied or rescinded.

The Romney campaign, and its supportive super PACs, seized on the directive, airing multiple ads in key states, falsely accusing Obama of “gutting” the welfare law — a claim that multiple fact-checkers, and a growing roster of traditional journalists, have debunked. The Republican governors who sought the flexibility have since been backtracking.

Herbert said he wanted the waivers to be granted by Congress and not the executive branch. But he stopped short of echoing Romney’s claim that Obama is gutting the essence of the law, and championed the idea of state flexibility.

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Full article here: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/gary-herbert-brian-sandoval-welfare-waivers-romney.php?ref=fpa

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

1. We were in favor of waivers before we were against it

We were in favor of immigration reform before we were against it
We were in favor of stimulus funding before we were against it
We were in favor on Romneycare before we were opposed to Obamacare

Whatever....

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Just pick an issue and tell them that President Obama is FOR it

they will turn and run from it so fast it will make your head spin.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. Obama is opposed to sitting in a full bathtub while holding a plugged-in toaster oven...

Just saying. It's true. He's definitely opposed to it.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. But wait a minute...

Don't HHS have their letters proving them to be liars? All Sebelius has to do is pull those babies out and show the press what a bunch of hypocrite liars they are!!