to vote when they register for public assistance. republican scott brown cam pape argues the real smoking gun, warren s daughter sits on the board of demos, advocacy group among the plaintiffs that brought the suit. warren s daughter head of an organization using taxpayers money to get people on welfare to vote, it just doesn t pass the smell test. outrageous. warren scoffed at brown s claim and despite possible ben it to to her campaign says it s strictly a matter of law. this organization is working on enforcement before amelia ever joined it. the organization was working with several states around the country. including massachusetts. that was happening before i ever got involved in the race. massachusetts g.o.p. leaders say the state s response in this case was unprecedented. arguing no other state agreed
decide if something will help or hurt the work requirement. the idea of the law is not leave it up to discretion but have it embedded. that is why it s correct. gutting of the legal foundation of work requirement. john: a quick point. we have to go to break. five-year time in the lifetime time limit on benefit would be unchanged. cap on government spending, result in a 30% reduction, terms will remain the same. heart of welfare millions of people living for five years, getting checks without having a job or without having trading. you couldn t. that would be what would happen under a waiver. it could be an issue. the whole point is no waivers by ever. that has now changed. john: charles is firm on that. stay right there, gentlemen. don t go anywhere. next up friday lightning round. we ll be right back.
policy. the obama campaign came out with an ad today saying it s a false ad. not true. backed up by a lot of fact checkers. what is going on here with the welfare debate? couple things. things that romney is saying about and then what is in the memo. a third question, whether it s gutting welfare or nottism guess my view of the memo is it doesn t butt welfare reform, because welfare reform can t be gutted. too firmly embedded in the law. if it were carried out in certain ways it could weaken the work requirement in welfare. that s my view. the ad saying it aboll niches welfare reform is distorted a inaccurate. but a relatively virtous ad because it s distortion of a policy position. you know? that is old hat. that is conventional in politics. it s not a smear of a personal attribute. it s also an ad that romney put his name on. are the romney campaign.
steelworker, laid off, person dying. that is exactly what the white house wants. that is the irony of this. and what makes it more repulsive. like harry reid/mccarthy charge about the tax returns. it kept the tax story going for a week. since reid isn t running for the presidency, it s romney. all we hear about romney s taxes and did romney kill a woman as a result of closing a steel mill? the fact that is what is happening all week is a week lost for romney. and a week he wasn t able to make the case. they are succeeding. that is the worst part of it. when you look at the numbers of the new fox news poll out yesterday. 4-40 now for president. all the negative. the shoe is also on the other foot when it comes to an ad about president obama potentially gutting welfare by allowing states to have waivers on the welfare to work
no. i really respect john mccain. looking at his resume from a nominee perspective, there are plenty of positives. he is a conservative who governed in a traditionally blue state and best known for his ability to balance minnesota s budget without raising taxes. what i stand for, what i argued for. what i believed in and what i have gotten done in minnesota, goes head long in most of minnesota history and most of minnesota s culture and traditions. when he took over the governor s office in 2003, minnesota faced a $4 billion budget shortfall. nearly a fifth of the state s $22.5 billion budget. instead of raising taxes he scoured the state s books and personally cut the budget by $3 billion. primarily by slashing funding increases for state services. like transportation and welfare. libertarian cato institute gave him an a grade calling him a frugal budgeter who repeatedly vetoed tax