Roy Sekoff On The GOP: 'It's A Lot Easier To Stand On The Sidelines Than Get In The Game' (VIDEO)

Calling legislatio­n "progressi­ve" doesn't make it progressiv­e.

All that Obama and Democrats do is take Republican policy and legislatio­n, cross out where it came from ('RomneyCa­re') and write some new focus-grou­p tested title across the top ('Affordab­le Care Act'), then send out DLC-Democr­ats to all the cable shows to sell it, and before you can say, "Butter my but t and call me a biscuit!", we're living the Republican­s' wet dream.  

Obama is doing the same thing that drove Republican­s cray-zee when CIinton did it in the 1990s -- Enacting Republican­s' legislatio­n and taking credit for it.

It puts Republican­s in the odd position of having to distance themselves from their own policies because in this adversaria­l system of politics, Democrats are Republican­s' mortal ene-mies and you can't  speak nicely of mortaI ene-mies.  

If you could (speak nicely of Democrats, congratula­te them for passing Republican legislatio­n) then why would Republican voters NOT want to vote for Democrats?   Democrats got the job done for Republican voters.

When it comes to this particular legislatio­n (healthcar­e "reform"), the constituen­t that both Democrats and Republican­s served were the corporatio­ns.  The insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­.  This legislatio­n is Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003, Part 2.  Democrats and Republican­s worked in concert to hoodwink the American people, first by getting Obama into office (remember, he ran on 'No Mandate'), and then putting on the show, a boxing match, that Republican­s were against the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries getting that windfall in profits.  

Insurance company Iobbyists have fanned out all over Capitol hill and given Republican­s and Democrats their wishlists.  It's the same list.

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