**Promoted from TAM Wire, posted by Patricia**
Obama continues with what appears to be a Scorched Earth campaign against America. Also: Romney hits Obama move gutting welfare reform.
The imperial Presidency has overturned Congress and the law again. Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the Clinton-era reform.
While this real news occurred yesterday, most of the media remained fixated on political ads and speeches, letting a major and unilateral shift in America’s welfare system go nearly unreported.Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The Heritage Foundation played a pivotal role in building bipartisan consensus for the reform and providing many of the recommendations that became part of the law. The whole point was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.
This reform was very successful. TANF became the only welfare program (out of more than 70) that promoted greater self-reliance. It moved 2.8 million families off the welfare rolls and into jobs so that they were providing for themselves. Child poverty fell, and single-parent employment rose. Recipients were required to perform at least 20–30 hours per week of work or job preparation activities in exchange for the cash benefit.
Now, Obama’s HHS is claiming that it can waive those work requirements that are at the heart of the law, and without Congress’s consent.
Of course, he can do anything he wants because he’s the big “0” Emperor (er, president) and is above the law and says so. Who’s going to stop him? Certainly NOT the other 2 branches of government, they’re scared spit-less of him (gutless wonders that they are). In another era and time gone by, someone with guts would challenge him to mortal combat and have done with his screed. Alas, that time has past.
“Michelle and I *always* use Imperial margarine. Tastes like butter!”
Lol!
“Rise subjects, and observe the Great Obama crush two golden birds between his mighty hands!”
See how much easier it is to govern when the Emperor, eerrrr sorry, President is free of all those pesky Constitutional restraints. It makes things automatically better, right? CRUSH THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE!! LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!
Mark Levin had it right last night when he stated that virtually everything that this Imperial President does is unconstitutional and are impeachable offenses; however, our Congress is afraid to do anything about him due to his skin color; and, of course, there is the Reid-lead Senate that would never convict, much less even bring the measure to a vote. GOD save us all if he is not booted out in November!
So true, Gordon. The Land of Opportunity has become the Land of Portentous-O.
The No Labels group thinks the presidency is too shackled. Too many rules and obstructions. They have a plan.
Unshackling the Presidency to Fix the Government
Congress would pretty much be a rubber stamp institution.
No Labels has no brains.
Wonder what Lord Voldemort has up his sleeve for NEXT week?
Unfortunately his next goal is to decimate the 2nd amendment.
Quoting from Mel Brooks’s “History Of The World, Part 1,” “It’s good to be the king.”