Romney Retroactively Opposes Welfare Waivers He Supported

Mitt Romney Retroactively Opposes Welfare Waivers He Supported As Governor

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the Obama administration's announcement that states could apply for waivers from some welfare rules "completely misdirected," even though Romney and other Republican governors supported a similar policy in 2005.

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services invited states to apply for waivers so they could try out "demonstration projects" under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, better known as welfare. The department is willing to give states leeway on requirements that a certain percentage of welfare beneficiaries are engaged in "work activities" so long as states stay "focused on improving employment outcomes."

"President Obama's efforts to gut welfare reform are just another of his attempts to return to the failed liberal policies of the past that have prolonged our economic crisis, created record levels of long-term unemployment, and swelled the rolls of Americans dependent on government assistance," Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said in a Thursday email.

But Romney and every other Republican governor struck a different tone in 2005, when they wrote the leader of the U.S. Senate in support of a bill that would have allowed similar demonstration projects.

"The Senate bill provides states with the flexibility to manage their TANF programs and effectively serve low-income populations," the letter said. "Increased waiver authority, allowable work activities, availability of partial work credit, and the ability to coordinate state programs are all important aspects of moving recipients from welfare to work."

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Here's your "I was for it before I was against it"/Gov. Etch-a-Sketch flip-flop of the day...

You can't make this stuff up... :Whistle

Tea Party-Backed Senate Candidate, Took Federal Tobacco Farm Subsidies

After reports came out showing that his real-estate firm benefitted from tobacco subsidies, Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde said his firm would drop the payments, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The Republican, who was recently endorsed by the Tea Party-affiliated FreedomWorks, has campaigned heavily against federal farm subsidies ahead of the August 14 Senate primary in Wisconsin.

Hovde's firm took in $8,000 worth of tobacco subsidies, the Associated Press reported. The realty firm received the money through the Tobacco Transition Payment Program, a program established in 2004 to mollify the effects of the government abandoning its longtime quota and price support system regulating the tobacco industry. Hovde, whose family has been involved in real estate for three generations and leases farmland, said that he didn't even know his firm had applied for the subsidies until he was contacted by the press.

Hovde's campaign website rails against farm subsidies, saying "we ... need to ... fight against subsidies that benefit only million-dollar mega farms at the expense of family farms." As the AP report also notes, Hovde has attacked one of his GOP primary challengers, Mark Neumann, for allowing his solar energy businesses to take in $500,000 in federal stimulus money.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/1 ... f=politics

And while we're on the subject of teabagger hypocrisy,.... You can't make this stuff up either....

Weren't you just attacking him for moving to moderate views to win the election?

Is there anything about Mitt you do like? You should like 1/2 his platforms 1/2 the time, (before he changes them.)

It's called hypocrisy. Perhaps you don't realize the subtlety of the concept? Saying what one group wants to hear when you're in front of them, and then saying something else in front of another group. I realize it's a difficult concept...for Righties... But hang in there. Governor Flip-Flop will make it all clear to you.

You mean like when Obama supported gay marriage when he was an Illinois legislator in a liberal district and abandoned homosexuals to get elected in 2008?

I mean like Mitt Romney's daily / hourly flip-flops.

It's called hypocrisy. Perhaps you don't realize the subtlety of the concept? Saying what one group wants to hear when you're in front of them, and then saying something else in front of another group. I realize it's a difficult concept...for Righties... But hang in there. Governor Flip-Flop will make it all clear to you.

Obama is much more of a flip-flopping hypocrite than you are willing to admit.

[sarcasm]It should be obvious to everyone that Barry is simply "evolving."[/sarcasm]