Reply #56: insurance-first "reform", low mileage standards, and loans are loans [View All]

no matter who makes em.

Now that we've dispensed with the silliness, here's another list:

So, as I said....GOP disdain for Obama policy is a measure of precisely fuck all.

1. Aggressive, war escalating foreign policy
2. Trickle down economic policy
3. Insurance industry-first health policy
4. Workers-last labor policy
5. Free-Trade not Fair-Trade trade policy
6. Blame Teachers and privatize Education education policy
7. DRILL BABY DRILL Energy Policy (which is not somehow magically OK because of new emission standards)

And on and on and on...

All of these policies are handled and implemented with more political deftness and savvy than anything Republicans can muster, can Republicans hate it of course, because Democratic success means more corporate money following to the Democratic party, more courtship of Democratic politicians while Republicans see their influence diminish. Of course they are absolutely opposed to Democrats having any victories.

You can I can both agree on one single thing - and that is Republican opposition has zero to do with policy. Know how we know this is true? Because when Democrats announce that they are going forward with the exact policy Republicans previously advocated, they come out and oppose it. They don't even care that anyone can go find their previous supporting statements. All that matters to republicans is that they WIN.

So yes, Obama's administration has been that of a better skilled, better managed conservative policy maker. And the sporadic smattering of policy here and there that really is different doesn't change that.