New Romney ad uses Democrats to hit Obama on welfare issue [VIDEO]

It's no secret to my readers that I think Barack Obama has been a colossal failure as a president.

Forty-one straight months of unemployment over eight percent is nothing to cheer about, but Obama seems to think that moving more people out of the job market and into entitlement programs is a positive development.

How else to explain his decision a few weeks ago to cut out the heart of the 1996 welfare reforms that were passed by Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress? 

The Romney campaign is seizing the opportunity, using harsh language from members of Obama's own party to tell the story in a new ad, just released late last night:

What were you doing in 1994?

What were you doing in 1994? If you're old enough to vote, you were alive then. I was at Edgewater High School, in the marching band and German Club. (My nerd credentials run deep). One big highlight from that year was finally convincing my parents to let me get contacts instead of glasses.

Yes, 1994 was an interesting year. Between Nancy Kerrigan getting clubbed on the leg by a figure skating rival, Kurt Cobain's suicide, and O.J. Simpson no longer being viewed as just that football player in the Naked Gun movies, it's amazing anyone managed to remember there was an election.

And regarding that 1994 election, here's what some people you may recognize were doing:

Morning Coffee Reading for May 26, 2011

Here's your morning coffee reading for today:

• David Limbaugh's column from Monday makes some excellent points about how Republicans should remember that "the liberal media do not have the best interests of Reagan conservatives in mind" in their coverage of our current and potential 2012 Presidential candidates. A must-read:

DavidLimbaugh.com | New Column: Don't Let Liberal Establishment Choose Our Candidates

• Ashley Sewell, who blogs at TX Trendy Chick, invited me on her radio program to discuss my post about Israel. Bethany Shondark was also a guest on the show. I met both Ashley and Bethany at CPAC this year: two awesome and feisty ladies who you should be following on Twitter if you aren't already (@TXTrendyChick and @bethanyshondark)
  

TX Trendy Chick | Podcast 17: I <3 Bibi

• The Minority Report, a great conservative blog where I  sometimes contribute content, recently went through a site redesign. The new website is http://theminorityreport.co/tmr and you can read my latest TMR post here (cross-posted here on this blog earlier this week).

• Here's a little perspective on the Democrats' victory in the NY-26 Congressional race (and of course, information you're not getting in the mainstream media). One intriguing element is the presence of a "fake tea party" spoiler candidate (see my posts about the efforts of a fake tea party here in Florida here).

Legal Insurrection | The Lessons of NY-26

• I'm not sure whether this is what the White House meant by "leading from behind," or if the President is just nostalgic for a time when his poll numbers were better, but on a Tuesday visit to London's Westminster Abbey, President Obama signed the guest book with the date "24 May 2008." On the O'Reilly Factor last night, Dennis Miller had a humorous comment: "He signed 2008 but everything he signs leads to inflation. By the time he gets back to D.C., it'll read 2011."

There was also this great tweet from @esqcapades:

Can you blame Obama for wishing it's 2008, when Michelle was finally proud of her country? Instead it's 2011 & we're proud of Bibi.Wed May 25 06:38:10 via webRachel
esqcapades

Legal Insurrection | Does anybody really know what time it is, does anybody care, about time?

• Tim Pawlenty made a campaign stop in Tampa earlier this week. From what I hear from friends who attended, it was a great event and he made a very favorable impression.

St. Petersburg Times | Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty makes Tampa a first campaign stop

• Governor Rick Scott is signing the budget today at 1:00 pm at The Villages. You can watch it online here:

http://www.rickscottforflorida.com/livestream/

• An ABC News camera caught an interesting conversation between Congressman Paul Ryan and former President Bill Clinton regarding the recent New York special election and the current budget debate in Congress (hat tip: @kesgardner and Legal Insurrection):

YouTube |Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan Chumming It Up Like Old Buddies

Didn't He Get Impeached for Lying?

I'll have some more thoughts on the whole Sestak matter later, but what really cracked me up this week was the revelation that none other than former President Bill Clinton was the one who allegedly made the maybe-a-job-maybe-an-advisory-position offer to Joe Sestak if he agreed not to run against Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary.  

I find it very odd that Sestak's original story that "the White House" offered him a "high level" "federal job" has now changed quite a bit in the past few days, so now the message is that Slick Willy wasn't really offering him a job, but just an unpaid advisory position and really not a big deal at all, which is why the White House finally released this information on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend.  Regardless, the White House counsel has assured us that no laws were broken, and nothing wrong was done, so we should all just move along now, nothing to see here... 
 


...anyone else reminded of this?
 

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Ann Coulter made a great point on Friday's Red Eye show, which if you're not watching, you should be.  (Seriously, it's the Daily Show with less liberals and more rock musicians.  Good times.  It's on FoxNews weekday nights at 3 a.m.  Set your DVR.)  

I think the issue is whether this actually was what was offered...if this is the way Bill Clinton says it happened, I'm sure it did, because he hasn't perjured himself under oath for at least a decade.