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Joseph Knollenberg: what really is going on with the President. I know he likes to change his mind and switch his position, but this week…

On the recordJuly 24, 1996
what really is going on with the President. I know he likes to change his mind and switch his position, but this week, the President and his friends were in rare form. We know the President has promised to reform welfare as we know it. Yet he has managed to veto reform twice behind thinly veiled excuses. Then he supported Wisconsin's reform in a speech, but changed his mind. Then he spoke to the Nation's Governors and said he supported welfare reform, but the next day, his handlers were changing his tune. The very next day, Leon Panetta said the President would veto the House-passed welfare reform. And on Sunday, Vice President Gore said the very same thing. The following day in Denver, the President changed his mind again saying he thinks he can support welfare reform. I can not wait for tomorrow. With the President flipping around more than a fish out of water, who knows where he will land. But remember, as my Democrat friends have said, if you do not like the President's position, just wait awhile. With all the flips and flops, it may soon be called the Waffle House. I yield back the balance of broken Clinton promises.
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Joseph Knollenberg
Republican · Michigan

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Criticizing President Clinton's inconsistent stance on welfare reform.

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