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President Obama continues to build his reputation as the food stamp and dependency president, this time by offering waivers from the work requirement for welfare recipients.
On July 12, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive which allows the HHS to “waive compliance” with the work requirement for able-bodied people, ignoring the clear intent of Congress to protect welfare from abuse.
On Tuesday presidential candidate Mitt Romney fought back against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) charge that he did not pay his taxes for a decade, saying the Senate Majority Leader has “lost a lot of credibility” and calling upon Reid to reveal the anonymous source who gave him the false information.
Romney told Fox News that he does not believe Reid has any “credible source.” “I don’t know who gave him this line of reasoning, whether it came from the White House or the DNC or a staffer, but he ought to say where it came from, and then we can find out whether that person has any credibility. I know they don’t.”
In the wake of Mitt Romney and his supporters out-fundraising President Obama for the third straight month, the Obama campaign emailed its latest fundraising plea to supporters on Monday in a sleek graphic, rife with factual inaccuracies and misleading figures.
Seemingly resigned to Romney’s success in outperforming the president, the plea asks supporters to merely help close the spending gap; but false humility is no excuse for false figures. Red Alert Politics breaks the graphic down, piece by piece:
Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) reflected on his governing philosophy, recall election and childhood, to standing applause, while addressing a young crowd of students and supporters at the Young America’s Foundation National Conference in Washington on Friday.
He assured them that freedom is the highest ideal and that it should be courageously sought by every American.
“Most voters are conservative; they just don’t know it,” Walker said, reflecting on his gubernatorial campaign. “We took conservative principles and put them into bite-size ideas that the people could relate to, explained it in ways that relate to people’s lives.”
Patrick Coyle knows all about the “dirty tricks” of the extreme Left. As vice president of the Young American’s Foundation (YAF) Coyle helps conservative students establish conservative groups, promote liberty and free-market friendly ideas and challenge liberal dominance on their campuses.
On Friday at the YAF National Conference in Washington, D.C., Coyle told wild stories of liberals yelling racial slurs at black conservatives, throwing bricks through venue windows, a high school teacher threatening her student with arrest for simply criticizing President Obama, a middle school teacher assigning her students oppositional research for the Obama campaign, and more.
Addressing the Young American’s Foundation National Conference Friday morning, Rep. Allen West, (R-FL) a former Army lieutenant colonel, stressed to the crowd of students and supporters the importance of being philosophically astute, and being a “warrior” for the sake of Conservatism and America.
“Whenever you find yourself in a fair fight, it is because your tactics suck,” West said. He stressed the importance of being articulate and knowledgeable about the philosophical tenants of Conservatism.
After weeks of negative campaign ads by both the Obama and Romney teams, a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows voters’ opinions of both men are souring. The poll shows that while the negative campaign ads against their opponents have worked, the favorability rating of each candidate has decreased.
Presumably, in response to the poll, the Obama and Romney campaigns briefly pivoted this week to optimistic ads and positive portrayals of their candidate, but the latest Obama ad shows that this gentle touch may soon be abandoned as Romney is compared to a “felon” in the ad.
Former Romney primary rival and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich came out swinging yesterday on behalf of the Republican nominee, hitting Obama for his small business gaffe and comparing the president’s misstep to denigrating an Olympic athlete for winning a gold medal.
Speaking Monday at a small electronics store in Arlington, VA, the former presidential candidate hammered President Obama on his now infamous comment, and compared small business owners to Olympians to stress the absurdity of the president’s ideological slip.
“You watch the Olympians. I can imagine Obama’s speech saying, ‘You didn’t win that gold medal, everybody won the gold medal.’ Well, that ain’t how it works. Those Olympians work very hard and long hours. They practice. They learn. They struggle to achieve something. And we honor those who work hard and in America the small business leaders go out and work hard and have been the key to our economy, the key to our future.”
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