Sunday, September 9, 2012

GAO says Obama Welfare Waivers were illegal. The GOP did nothing to stop Obama because the US has a de facto 1-party government

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The GOP establishment is fine with Obama. They see their #1 problem to be ordinary right of center Americans and conservative radio hosts. Why should the media care if Obama's actions are illegal? No one else does.

9/9/12, "Media Blackout: GAO Says Obama's Welfare Waivers Illegal," Breitbart, Huston

"On Sept. 4, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made a startling assertion saying that Obama circumvented the law when he summarily waived the work requirements in the welfare law. Perhaps not as shocking, few news outlets seem interested in the story.

In its Sept. 4 letter, the GAO found that Health and Human Services (HHS) should have formally submitted a letter of its intent to make the changes to Congress and the Comptroller General before any waivers can be legally issued.

The letter also said that the GAO had not determined if HHS had the legal right to even make such waivers available. The GAO is basically saying that the Obama administration is breaking the law with its waivers.

But, according to a review of the shocking news of the GAO's determination, neither CNN, nor CBS, nor ABC have bothered to report the story.

For their part, Republicans and GOP nominee Mitt Romney have maintained that Obama's gutting of the work requirements in the welfare law was an illicit move.

Former U.S. Representative Ron Haskins, who helped pass the work requirements back in 1996, feels that Obama acted improperly by summarily changing the rules without going through Congress saying, "But [HHS] didn’t even consult with the Republicans. They knew the spirit of the law, and they violated that."

Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Representative Dave Camp, agrees with Haskins. Camp says that the move was an "end run" around Congress."...

  • Ed. note: The GOP guy agrees it was an "end run." Heavy. It's important to keep track of the media but there's no surprise in what they do. The GOP doesn't object to Obama, in fact says he's great. If you want to be shocked about something, be shocked at the GOP who destroyed the country, decimated the Republican Party, and gave us Obama. Instead of being in jail, these thugs go on Fox News and say Obama's programs are fine, we'd just fine tune them. Then they tell ordinary Americans and radio hosts to shut up about Obama, that they (the GOP) like him, that we should stop criticizing them for saying Obama's a good guy. The GOP and Obama both want the same thing which is to be left alone. The middle class is too annoying. The new America has a third world kind of electorate: muted, impoverished, desperate, and government-dependent.

(continuing): "Obama, however, has defended his move even going so far as to claim that it was several Republican Governors that requested the change.

At least one governor refuted the claim, though, saying his office was only asking what the rules were for waivers but that he had yet to actually request any."

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Among comments

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"ImaThinkn"

"So, not only is the Congress sitting on their thumbs but where are the lawsuits and the judicial orders putting a STOP to such an action? We never see any shortage of that whenever conservatives try to implement anything. Presidential Orders are subject to judicial review--they're not the final word. Congress holds the purse strings, so why not just cut off ALL money going to the pay of Administration personnel until they toe the line according to the law? It's WAY beyond time to start fighting fire with FIRE." via Lucianne

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9/7/12, "GAO Says Obama Admin Evaded Law on Welfare Waivers; CNN, CBS, ABC All Ignore," NewsBusters, Hadro

"CNN did, however, find time to "fact-check" Mitt Romney's claims that Obama "gutted bipartisan reform as we know it." Reporter Tom Foreman's conclusion on Wednesday was that while "maybe" some people could now get a break from work requirements and thus "thwart" the effort to move more welfare recipients to work, there's no evidence that Obama's intention was to "gut" the law..

"So did the White House kill this thing off?" he asked before answering "No. It did not.""

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Karl Rove, Ed Rollins and the Bushes aim to finish destroying the GOP:

Ed Rollins attacks Rush Limbaugh but not Obama:

8/31/12, "The Obama Good Guy/Bad Guy Debate," Rush Limbaugh transcript

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Ed Rollins exemplifies failed GOP
"vanity and egotism" trying to "reassert the Republican establishment over the tea party revolution."...(begin parag. 11).

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11/4/10, "Ruling Class GOP declare war on country class conservatives, " Rush Limbaugh transcript

"Apparently the establishment Republicans

  • will fight harder and more viciously to stop conservatives

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Country Club GOP fighting to the death--not against Obama, against the Tea Party:

7/13/12, "George Shultz Endorses Carbon Tax – You Were Surprised?" GlobalWarming.org, Marlo Lewis

"But there has always been a wing of the GOP — the “establishment,” “Country Club,” or “Rockefeller” Republicans — who care more about controlling the party than about advancing liberty or even about winning elections....AEI’s Ken Green (a colleague of Hassett’s) hits the nail on the head. In a story on Shultz’s endorsement of carbon taxes, Green told Climatewire: (subscrip):

I think this is mostly vanity and egotism on the part of these people who are coming forward, to try and reassert the Republican establishment over the tea party revolution, he added. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more of these guys weigh in.”"...(begin parag. 11)...

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"They’ve come to praise Caesar, not to bury him."

9/8/12, "Double-Minded Republicans," Andrew McCarthy, National Review

"After a first term that has been historically abysmal, President Obama stands a good chance of being reelected. How can that be?

Here is the blunt explanation: We have lost a third of the country and, as if that weren’t bad enough, Republicans act as if it were two-thirds."...

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10/20/11, "The lost decade," Claremont Institute, Angelo M. Codevilla

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4/1/2010, "The Obama Coalition," The Atlantic, Thomas Byrne Edsall



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