For several weeks now, I've been hearing Democrats and their media sycophants incessant whines that the evil Romney campaign keeps lying about Obama's efforts to single-handedly invalidate the welfare reform law that is a source of pride for republicans from 1996.
It continued at the convention with Rick Santorum's speech. After the evening's speeches ended with Ann Romney and Chris Christie's impressive performances, I stumbled across Andrea Mitchell getting a microphone into Santorum's face to accuse him of lying in his speech about the welfare work requirements being removed by Obama. After the ambush of Santorum, she and anchor Rachel Maddow commisserated about the gall of right-wing extremists like Santorum and the rest of the republicans to continue pounding such an outright lie. For them, "everybody knows" it's not true that Obama removed the work requirements from welfare.
The interesting thing that's happened in this campaign is that the Left has created their own "fact-checkers" who turn out to be partisan crusaders for Obama and publish Obama campaign talking points while calling them "facts", then get quoted as the authorities on who's telling the truth in the campaign. Of course, somehow actual lies from the Obama campaign team are buried, ignored, or explained away, while mere disagreements with Romney campaign rhetoric are inflated into outrageous and dishonest lies.
Where to go to find the truth about the welfare issue? I've knocked around the internet now and then in search of facts, but until this morning failed to find any honest account. Surely, if Obama wants to claim it's a lie, there must be some underlying story that he could point to that explains the misunderstanding or distortion. But no such defense of fact could be found.
Until today. The first time I've seen anything that tells the underlying story comes from Ann Coulter.
Sure, Ann's a major partisan figure on the right, and is known for her satirical approach in trying to expose what she sees as Democrat foolishness. If you follow the link to her article, she explains what happened and why the Left built a very thin cover story through faux fact-checkers in an attempt to mislead the public.
If somebody out there believes they have factual evidence to the contrary of Ann's piece that proves Obama and Sebelius are not destroying the 1996 welfare reform law, I'd love to see it. Of course, don't bother if your approach is to try to invalidate her by trying to refute her satirical suggestions such as the one about exempting welfare recipients so they can spend their time "playing XBox and eating Doritos". Nobody thinks that's an actual qualification for receiving a work exemption, so don't even try.
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