At Issue this week... Welfare by Mona Charen

Until this week, the Obama campaign’s strategy of interest group payoffs and demonization of Romney seemed, if tawdry, at least a possible route to re-election. The president’s promises to deliver more and more “free” stuff for carefully selected grantees — adorned in the language of sticking up for the “middle class” — appeared to have a chance of success. (more)