Come on over to the dark side (we have muffins)
The CAFTA free trade agreement passed early this morning, which is good news for just about everyone this side of Panama. Well, maybe not everyone. It passed by a scant two votes, helped by a similarly scant 15 Democrat votes (how times change, eh?), votes that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is steaming mad over. Pelosi is apparently accusing those Democrats of accepting, essentially, bribes, and is “reviewing their committee assignments.” Of course, the Kos kids are plotting revenge against them all. Rep. Norm Dicks, a Washington State Democrat who voted for the bill, is being called a traitor by some outside his district and quietly threatened from within.
Now, if I were one of those Democrats, with the far left baying at for my blood, and my leadership threatening my position, I might think long and hard about why I’m in that party at all. It’s pretty clear that Moderates are losing the battle for control of the party, and losing it badly. There’s room in the GOP for anyone with the sense to vote for CAFTA, even if they’re nitwits generally. I’m fairly certain we treat our “mavericks” better than Pelosi is doing right now. And we have muffins.
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July 28th, 2005 at 6:33 pm
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July 28th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
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Muffins? Now I’m hungry.
July 29th, 2005 at 12:10 am
And now I think you and some other conservatives have some idea why have to tell people I’m an Independent - even though I blog 4 the fairest US Senator of all. (joke)
Between calling Republicans lazy bums; saying they don’t care for human life after birth; raising taxes like taxdollars are candy when they’re in charge; placing the tally over the votes cast; defending Dean Logan as if he’s… supernatural; and spreading lies, lies and lies - I can’t stand calling me a member of the party of Howard Dean, Christine Gregoire, Ron Sims and the WEA.
I might wolf down one of your muffins sooner rather than later… can I have coffee w/ that?
July 29th, 2005 at 9:21 am
All hail the power of the almighty muffin!
August 7th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
Am I a really really mean guy if I am discomforted by the fact that we treat our mavericks better?
I would like to see mavericks spanked in the public square. Clothed of course, because I have seen some of our mavericks.
August 8th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
You sure about that? Reagan was a maverick.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:49 am
“Who will turn the lights off? El Salvador’s youth exodus.”
CAFTA Casualties: Free trade deals like CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) have had a devastating impact on El Salvador’s small farmers and have helped push 100,000 Salvadorans per year to immigrate to the United States.Photo by Judy Walgren, FAACA.NET
USULUTÁN, El Salvador—El Salvador is a poor country whose major export is people. From recently living there, I’ve seen firsthand what’s driving people north — and why conventional political solutions aren’t going to deter desperate Salvadorans and others like them from coming to the United States. Largely missing from this year’s presidential campaign is any serious reappraisal of our foreign, military, and trade policies that have forced millions of Latin Americans to uproot themselves and seek opportunities for a better life far from home.
On the presidential campaign trail earlier this year, free trade critics failed to link corporate globalization, trade deregulation and the forced relocation of people throughout the hemisphere. While courting blue-collar workers in farm states and the Rust Belt in the United States, former Democratic senator John Edwards frequently denounced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — and its new Central American counterpart, CAFTA — as “trade laws that send American jobs overseas.”
To view the rest of this article, see http://www.indypendent.org/2008/07/20/who-will-turn-off-the-lights/