Desperation time for the Romney camp?

The Welfare Gambit

By CHARLES M. BLOW, NYT

I smell desperation.

It’s one thing when campaign supporters and even surrogates issue scurrilous attacks on their candidate’s opponent— both sides have done some of this — but it’s another thing altogether when those accusations become a central line of attack stemming from the candidate himself.

Earlier this week, Mitt Romney claimed that President Obama had moved to eliminate the work requirement for welfare recipients.

Romney pushed the point in an ad with the narrator saying:

On July 12, President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check, and ‘welfare to work’ goes back to being plain old welfare.

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