Sirotablog

David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.

  • October 5, 2007 2:44 PM

    Solidarity

    This is what's known as solidarity:

    "Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representatives Raúl M. Grijalva and Linda Sánchez today announced plans to introduce legislation to make permanent trade benefits for nearly two dozen countries, including Costa Rica. This announcement comes at the culmination of a nearly two year campaign by the Bush administration to use the false threat of trade preference expiration to pressure Costa Rica into ratifying the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Bush’s trade representative, Susan Schwab, made this threat again on Wednesday – the last day before a three-day media blackout in Costa Rica ahead of Sunday’s referendum on CAFTA."

    Great news. This is how Democrats should be acting - they shouldn't be running from Bush, they should be running at him and going to bat for the progressive movement like Grijalva and Sanchez.

    Posted by David Sirota
    Permalink | Comments (1) | del.icio.us | digg
    Tags: free trade, progressive infrastructure, success stories

Discussion

  • GrantBurkeVT [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    You'll never get this kind of bravery from xenophobes such as TAN-CREEP-O, SenseLESSbrenner, ROARING-FUCKER, etc ... In fact, most of these xenophobe pols are happy as hell to quietly eliminate the borders through as many "free" trades as it takes.

    Posted on October 5, 2007 3:42 PM

Join the Discussion

Post a comment