On Friday night’s edition of The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur took aim at one of his favorite targets, CNN’s Erin Burnett, but in a more measured way than usual. Critiquing a segment of Burnett’s OutFront that featured an interview with Rep. Pete DeFazio (D-OR) that centered on the “entitlement reform” component of the fiscal… Read more »
Posts Tagged: gutting
Must-Read Research: Obama Gutting Welfare Reform, Setting Spending Records
Welfare spending is at a staggering, all-time high. A new government report confirms that the U.S. now spends roughly $ 1 trillion a year on what has become a behemoth welfare system consisting of more than 80 federal programs. Robert Rector explains more in congressional testimony from earlier this year: “Examining the Means-Tested Welfare State.”… Read more »
Gutting #Cuttersperspective: Happy warriors gut Stephanie Cutter on despicable Benghazi remarks
As Twitchy reported, lying liar and Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, put the reprehensible icing on her own despicable cake today. She said that Benghazi wouldn’t be an issue, if it weren’t for that pesky Romney and Ryan. Four dead Americans? Whatever! What's worse: that @stefcutter believes what she said, or that no one… Read more »
House Votes to Reverse Obama Administration’s Gutting of Welfare’s Work Requirements
This afternoon, the House voted to restore the work requirements that the Obama Administration has attempted to gut from the 1996 welfare reform law. The breakdown: 250 Republicans voted for restoration and 164 Democrats voted against the resolution. The 1996 reform inserted work requirements into the largest federal cash assistance welfare program, replacing the old… Read more »