[mysterio]

Cool. Deficit spend, keep those money printers rolling, and outsource those jobs. Party like it’s 1929.

[Clintonfatigued]

Another day, another free trade pact promoted with empty promises.

[E. Cartman]

While free trade agreements are unpopular in the US, with senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both criticising them on the campaign trail, the Bush administration has been highlighting the security components of the Colombia deal, portraying it as a way of bolstering President Alvaro Uribe against Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

And pushing the children of people who were once Reagan democrats further and further into the leftist camp...I guess that's something the First Simpleton has never considered or regards as of no consequence.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

FWIW, in Canada, it's anti-American leftists (left-leaning Liberals, big unionists, the socialist NDP, and anyone further to the left) who oppose free trade deals. Conservatives, and other free-enterprisers view free trade (in principle) as a logical extension of the principle of free enterprise, and free markets. While there's lots of room to debate the details — there's broad agreement that free trade creates wealth (as do free markets, in general).

[acoulterfan]

Remember this alleged rumor?

http://wonkette.com/politics/paraguay/state-dept-formally-denies-bushs-south-american-escape-plans-229144.php

They deny that the US military has ties but wasn’t the actual rumor regarding his own personal family compound or property? Didn’t his niece go down there when she was having all her drug problems, etc?

I vaguely remember what the circumstances were. Would like to know what is really factual.