Larry Summers is having a convenient short-term memory lapse on welfare reform 

Larry Summers has some nerve. The economist is ripping Republican’s “cruel” efforts to rein in out-of-control Medicaid spending.

Yet he himself participated in one of the biggest welfare reforms of our lifetime.

In 1996, with Summers serving in his Treasury Department, President Bill Clinton signed into law measures that ended welfare as an “entitlement,” pushed people to go to work, made relief temporary and limited federal funding for state programs. 

So...