Pelosi’s Protectionist House Dems, Renig on Trade Deals
Posted by Andy on July 5th, 2007
An emailer sent me a clipping earlier this week about how Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi’s House Dems had stripped away trade powers of the President, but they didn’t send the link to get the rest of the story.
Well, Opinion Journal has an editorial laying out how the Dems are actually reneging on far more than just Presidential powers, they are trying to govern the world.
Democrats are promising to improve America’s image in the world if they retake the White House next year. Tell that to Peru and Colombia, which are watching Democrats in Congress renege on free-trade assurances that are barely a month old.
House Democrats pulled that fast one late last Friday, shortly before a holiday weekend when few were watching. They also announced their opposition to a free-trade pact with South Korea only a day before the deal was signed, and for good measure they announced that an extension of trade promotion authority (which expired June 30) is essentially dead as long as they run Congress. Ah, bipartisanship.
The whole thing is really worth a read, and should be spread around to your friends who think the Democrats really want to work with Republicans. They want it their way or it is the highway, and obviously cannot even be taken for their word. What’s even more important is for people to see how the special interests control the Democratic party.
Here’s a taste of that:
As we say, we think Mr. Rangel wants to do the right thing. The real power behind this Democratic trade backflip is Sander Levin, the Michigan protectionist who is the AFL-CIO’s front man on Capitol Hill. He, too, praised the original trade deal. But once his union minders told him otherwise, he turned against it and lobbied Ms. Pelosi to demand that Mr. Rangel follow suit.
Go read the whole thing and send it around to your friends who think Democrats can really be trusted with power.
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