[Marine_Uncle]

"Actually, that was obsoleted by Xlinton in his last year with the PNTR... Permanent Normalization of Trade Relations was passed by the U.S. Senate and signed by Beelzebubba in 2000. The PNTR ended the annual review process...pre-emptively taking the 'carrot and stick' away from the new administration...

Now it would take extraordinary provocation by China for the President to take any emergency action, action he would still require the Congress to approve, and order a recission of the PNTR...and trigger the Smoot-Hawley tariff regime...which (while sadly neglected) is still on the books."

So sir, the gig is up. We have been truly sold down the tubes. Thank you for this very bad news.........really.
At least more of us now understand we are in the real deep
of it. Perhaps I can find a job in China town cleaning toilets. Interestingly, I bet if Big John Kerry had been elected he would not do a damn thing to try to pursuade congress to write a new bill to overriding the existing one.
There are just to many trillions of dollars involved to get a fairer trade policy going at this point. Surely it is now
beyond Clintons concerns about human rights, which was just a bunch of bull shit in my opinion. You don't try to bribe communists countries with commercial deals to stop human rights offenses. It was a lame excuse he and others used to begin with. Now they take over and still can throw their peasants an occasional fish head. Nothing changes in Washington. The jerks sold us out once more.

[Paul Ross]

I bet if Big John Kerry had been elected he would not do a damn thing to try to pursuade congress to write a new bill to overriding the existing one.

I don't think you could get anybody here to take that bet!

John Kerry's entire political career has been one detrimental to the peace and prosperity of the U.S. and one of communist-nation-currying self-aggrandizement. He is perhaps the biggest proponent of Globalization on the Hill.

Kerry was firmly backing all of the Xlinton schemes: The Xlinton-Altered NAFTA Language (an Albright cave-in to the Mexicans, highly adverse to the U.S.); Xlinton-Altered WTO language in its formation; Xlinton-cave-ins on U.S. interest in the Kyoto Treaty (which gives China extraordinarily disparate advantage, and although was not signed by the U.S. and would not pass the Senate...is now in force among many Western signatory countries...and may be a back door to a Global Governmental Tax Regime); Xlinton-concessions on Chinese being granted MFN-status with PNTR passage in 2000; and Xlinton-conessions on WTO-Admission, which GWB only slightly modified so as to require joint-admission of China and Taiwan which then happened on November 11th, 2001. In all of these, Kerry is not just on record as voting for these U.S.-endangering moves, he is a strong supporter. Globalism uber alles. Just like he wants United Nations control over our military.

And it is only too true the campaign rhetoric about Heniz 57 -- Heinz production being outsourced to 57 Countries. Kerry would demigogically pander against outsourcing, but then, do precisely the opposite of what is required to stop any outsourcing. His tax proposals were just tepid and silly...an puny corporate income tax incentive cannot countervail against a 5-fold production cost advantage in China. His next steps would have been equally inane Probably just create a federal regulatory bureaucracy...which would then chase out still more U.S. industry and investment. Typical Globalist Democrat thinking.

As far as the "gig" being up, well, there is still the possibility of

(a) Divine intervention (which we should be fervently praying for non-stop...and that the disinformer's mouths cease) and/or the

(b)"Nautilus Solution": i.e., a rogue "mad" USN attack-submarine captain who wipes out the Chinese-industrial-assault-force...its ENTIRE merchant marine brimming with junk-filled containers. It would take China a decade to recover...and allow the U.S. to do likewise in the interim.