Newt Gingrich and the GOP's New Welfare Talking Points

Newt Gingrich and the GOP's New Welfare Talking Points
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Remember welfare? The GOP does, fondly. Not that they want pre-Clinton welfare programs back, they just want the issue back (kind of how they miss the Cold War but not the Soviets).

So they're trying to bring welfare back, as an issue anyway.

Jack Farrell over at US News's Thomas Jefferson Street blog has a great take-down of the new welfare talking points. Time was, Jack points out, the GOP actually liked income tax credits.

Click here to read the whole thing.

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