[InterceptPoint]

A pretty good article and Free Republic itself is a small test tube of the much larger debate of TPA/FTA and TPP that the article describes. FR has its supporters and critics of the Trade Agreement and they perfectly mirror the groups described in the article. For example just read this paragraph from near the end that describes the groups opposing the Trade Bills:

"... Unlike the libertarian populism of the real, mainstream Tea Party movement, the Obamatrade campaign is fueled by a form of economic nationalism better associated with Pat Buchanan and Phyllis Schlafly, whose writings and videos are featured prominently on the group’s website. That website is hosted by the American Jobs Alliance, a retrograde organization that advocates using industrial policy and high tariffs to “bring back” American jobs that were “shipped overseas” by “global corporations” (cue ominous music). These folks are full-throated protectionists who believe in cutting off the United States from the global economy. Such archaic, misguided economic views echo the views of U.S. labor unions and the far, far Left, not grassroots conservatives."

I happen to agree with this characterization. We are seeing right here on FR an alliance of the isolationist Pat Buchanan and Rand Paul supporters with, whodathunkit, the Labor Unions and the Far, Far, Far Left.

The Anti-Trade Protectionist Coalition.

Strange Bedfellows for sure. Maybe it is time for these people to reexamine their basic premises.

[SoConPubbie]

Strange Bedfellows for sure. Maybe it is time for these people to reexamine their basic premises.

Well, the only way that is going to happen is if you, me, and everyone else who dares to get themselves informed hit them up-side the head (rhetorically speaking) with the truth early and often!