Mitt Romney Retroactively Opposes Welfare Waivers He Supported As Governor

[maddezmom]

Source: Huff Post

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 said it wants 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.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/mitt-romney-welfare-waivers_n_1686543.html

[snooper2]

2. did you get the mask with the light on the top?

[justice1]

3. It sounds like a good idea in theory...

However, when you have a governor with Heineman's track record, the majority of the money, will end up in the hands of a corporation.

[tclambert]

4. Oh, this is good! You can throw the word "retroactively" at him every time he flip-flops.

"Mitt Romney retroactively opposes what he used to support." "Romney retroactively agrees to ideas he once swore to fight to his last breath." "Mitt changes policies retroactively to the opposite of what they used to be."

[jmowreader]

5. Is someone keeping a list...

of all the things Romney was for before he was against?

[maddezmom]

6. I'm not but there are some good ones here

¬snip¬

. "I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." (October 25, 1994)

"The principles that Ronald Reagan espoused are as true today as they were when he I spoke them." (May 25, 2010)

2. "Many, many years ago, I had a dear close family relative who was very close to me who passed away from an illegal abortion. It is since that time that my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we cannot force our beliefs on others in that matter. And you will not see me wavering on that." (November 2, 2002)

"Roe v. Wade has gone too far." (June 25, 2007)

3. "We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them. I won't chip away at them; I believe they protect us and provide for our safety." (September 24, 2002)

"I'm after the NRA's endorsement." (April 5, 2007)

4. "I think there is need for economic stimulus" (January 4, 2009)

"I have never supported the President's recovery act, all right, the stimulus, no time, nowhere, no how." (September 28, 2011)

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/mitt-romneys-pants-discovered_b_1686248.html

[woo me with science]

7. He's retro! He's etch-a-sketch!