{"id":15432,"date":"2012-09-09T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2012-09-09T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T23:16:26","slug":"somehow-the-media-missed-this-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15432","title":{"rendered":"Somehow The Media Missed This Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Journalism\/2012\/09\/08\/Gov-t-Accountability-Office-Says-Obama-s-Welfare-Waivers-Illegal-TV-News-Ignores\">Breitbart.com<\/a> is reporting today that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Government Accountability Office\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Government Accountability Office<\/a> (GAO) has stated that the changes that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/barack-obama-12782369\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> made to the work requirements in the welfare reform act passed during the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Bill Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton administration<\/a> are illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In its <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/gao-obama-admin-circumvented-law-welfare-waivers\">Sept. 4 letter<\/a>, the GAO found that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Legal Dictionary (HHS - housebreaking)\" href=\"http:\/\/research.lawyers.com\/glossary\/HHS-thru-housebreaking.html?WT.mc_id=Zemanta_InText&amp;cid=con:103\" rel=\"lawyerscom\" target=\"_blank\">Health and Human Services<\/a> (HHS) should have formally submitted a letter of its intent to make the changes to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Congress<\/a> and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Comptroller General of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comptroller_General_of_the_United_States\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Comptroller General<\/a> before any waivers can be legally issued.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The letter also said that the GAO had not determined if HHS had the legal right to even make such waivers available. The GAO is basically saying that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Obama administration<\/a> is breaking the law with its waivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/matt-hadro\/2012\/09\/07\/gao-says-obama-admin-evaded-law-welfare-waivers-cnn-cbs-abc-all-ignore\">review<\/a> of the shocking news of the GAO&#8217;s determination, neither <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"CNN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>, nor <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"CBS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>, nor <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"American Broadcasting Company\" href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> have bothered to report the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s stories like these that show the need for the alternative media.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama has stated that the changes in the waivers were made at the request of Republican Governors, but those governors have denied that they requested a change, stating that they only asked for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>The real question here is whether or not Congress is willing to stand up to the President and uphold the Constitution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=840c2ab9-c301-460e-b519-4b097b232d7c\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart.com is reporting today that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated that the changes that President Obama made to the work requirements in the welfare reform act passed during the Clinton administration are illegal. The article reports: In its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15432\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,1240,1344,805,774,135,44,133,3913],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-cbs","tag-cnn","tag-gao","tag-government-accountability-office","tag-obama-administration","tag-united-states-congress","tag-united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services","tag-welfare-work-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15434,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions\/15434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}