"The Obama-gutted-welfare-reform ad that Team Romney keeps touting because this lie works so well is the brainchild of Robert Rector. He's a senior researcher at the right-wing Heritage Foundation who has issued ludicrous pronouncements, excuse me, scholarly ludicrous pronouncements, about how poverty doesn't hurt kids and, in fact, barely exists in America. As Laura Clawson reported, Rector has said that people with air-conditioning, personal computers and cable TV aren't really poor. And argued that the whole concept of trying to lift people out of poverty doesn't fly.
It was all baloney. Just like the welfare ad. The ad claims President Obama demolished the 1996 welfare reform act's key change, moving people from public assistance to jobs. That claim has been thoroughly debunked which, of course, like all Team Romney's other lies, hasn't stopped the campaign from repeating it over and over."
