White House, Obama camp, blast Romney's ‘blatantly dishonest' welfare charge

The White House denounced Mitt Romney's "blatantly dishonest" charge that President Barack Obama is looking to "gut welfare reform" enacted under Bill Clinton by erasing a requirement that recipients actively seek work. "This advertisement is categorically false, and it is blatantly dishonest," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. A new Romney ad seizes on a mid-July memo from the Department of Health and Human Services that signals the...Full Story