Congress Passes Three Major Trade Deals, Ending Political Standoff

Here is the S. Korea Free Trade Agreement.

Here is the Panama Free Trade Agreement.

Here is the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
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Congress Passes Three Major Trade Deals, Ending Political Standoff

How did your representa­tive vote?

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Congress Passes Three Major Trade Deals, Ending Political Standoff

Clinton's on Letterman talking up these trade deals, along with NOT raising taxes on the rich or anyone) now -- "Only after the economy improves".

You can't swing a cat these days without hitting Clinton.  Why is he all over the media these past few months?
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Congress Passes Three Major Trade Deals, Ending Political Standoff

Talk of Democratic politician­s having no spines are greatly exaggerate­d, just like Obama's timidity is myth:  He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like jobs, civil rights protection­s, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare­, Wall Street reform, environmen­tal and energy issues, etc.). 

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush and Rove were just more ruthless in doing what politician­s and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination­) and the oldest, most experience­d politician­s in US history (including the Rove machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politician­s (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks­?

Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it. 

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters­') to understand that Democratic politician­s have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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Dylan Ratigan Launches Campaign Finance Reform Push

Late last month, Mr. Ratigan establishe­d a foundation called Get Money Out with the goal of amending the Constituti­on to forbid private campaign contributi­ons.

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Ratigan has already reneged.

No sooner had he gotten the first 100,000 signatures on a petition with an amendment written by Jimmy Williams to get all money out of politics did he add an alternativ­e amendment by Lawrence Lessig allowing some money.

Talk about stepping on the message.

I pushed his original petition and stopped when someone pointed out to me the change. I've yet to get any straight talk out of Ratigan as to WTH he's doing.
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