House will pass CAFTA tonight: DeLay

[no_to_war_economy]

"It will be a tough vote but we'll pass CAFTA tonight," DeLay told reporters after a meeting between President Bush and House Republicans. "We will honor our commitments to the south, we will protect our national security and will do it all with very few Democrats."

http://reuters.myway.com//article/20050727/2005-07-27T151146Z_01_WBTOO3540_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-TRADE-CAFTA-REPUBLICANS-DC.html

[dogday]

1. Just remember you said that Tom

when the shit starts flying about this program.

[DemsUnite]

17. Can we rename it SHAFTA?

:grr:

[jsamuel]

2. Maybe the will do what they did in Texas...

[Double T]

3. Put another check mark in the win column for corporate america.....

our own elected officials selling out the people that elected them and then lowering the standard of living in this country another several notches. The dismantling of america continues.

[Rose Siding]

4. House will pass CAFTA tonight: DeLay

Republicans in the House of Representatives will approve a new free trade agreement with Central America late on Wednesday with the help of a few Democrats, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said.

"It will be a tough vote but we'll pass CAFTA tonight," DeLay told reporters after a meeting between President Bush and House Republicans. "We will honor our commitments to the south, we will protect our national security and will do it all with very few Democrats."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072700966.html

[Sal316]

5. Good... when jobs go south...

...remind them that the GOP did it.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Labor tells Dems: Vote for CAFTA at your peril

July 27, 2005


Labor tells Dems: Vote for CAFTA at your peril
By Josephine Hearn


Labor groups put aside their differences for a moment Monday to draw a line in the sand on the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), telling House Democrats that unions would not support any Democrat who voted in favor of the pivotal trade pact.

“Simply put, there must be real and measurable consequences for opposing labor on this issue. The stakes are too high for the workers of America. We cannot and we will not give any Democrat a pass on CAFTA,” wrote the presidents of the International Association of Fire Fighters, the AFL-CIO Building and Trades Department, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Teamsters and nearly every other large, politically active labor union in a strongly worded letter to House Democratic leaders.

In particular, the union chiefs took issue with three Democrats — Reps. Melissa Bean (Ill.), Jim Matheson (Utah) and Dennis Moore (Kan.) — all part of the party’s Frontline program, which aids vulnerable incumbents.
(snip)

But on Friday, Bean became the sixth Democrat to announce publicly her support for the agreement, and unions said that Matheson and Moore may be leaning toward a yes vote.
(snip/...)

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/072705/labor.html

[katsy]

7. Part of the Frontline Program...

vulnerable incumbents? Remind me again why they are vulnerable and explain how being pro-CAFTA is going to help them with their base?

:banghead:

[jsamuel]

9. I know, It's like they think the more conservative they are, the more

likely the will get reelected...

Do they know nothing of beliefs?

[katsy]

14. There's one "belief" we can track:

My BELIEF that if they turn their backs on American workers and vote for CAFTA, they WILL lose in 2006 and deservedly so.

[cyberpj]

15. Who's afraid of not getting elected if BushCo says they will 'make it so'.

No worries there - no one's exposed election fraud YET.

[wli]

8. party line vote

Guess what that results in?

[no_to_war_economy]

10. good note from the Nation

One of the Democrats who has endorsed CAFTA is Illinois Representative Melissa Bean, who last year took the seat of Republican veteran Phil Crane.

Bean could come to regret her decision. She won her 2004 race with strong support from unions, which contributed $235,000 to the effort. And she will been courting labor support for her reelection bid in 2006, when she will face a strong GOP challenge in a traditionally Republican district. Bean's fund-raising efforts have been assisted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) -- headed by Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, a militant advocate for the North American Free Trade Agreement when he served as an aide to then-President Bill Clinton. The DCCC has designated her as one of its so-called "Frontline" candidates. The "Frontline" initiative seeks to fill the campaign coffers of the ten House incumbents who are likely to face the toughest challenges from Republicans next year.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=8601

[indypaul]

16. The Delay payback will be

NO support for her Republican opponent next year
even in a strong Republican district. The time to
oppose her should be in the primary and deny her
the nomination. Surely there is a strong labor
candidate that would fill the bill. When an office
holder ignores their base that base should position
themselves to instill that discipline as swiftly as
possible. The members of Congress that pull these
stunts generally have control of the party apparatus
back home or they cannot get away with it. This is
the lesson we voters must learn and act accordingly.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. I guess that also means they intend to hold the vote open

as long as they have to so BugBoy and his minions can twist arms until they get their desired result. Typical neocon Stealth Government. :puke:

[meganmonkey]

12. ...

:(

[Al-CIAda]

13. Rigged voting machines make such talk of accountability 'quaint'. nt

[StrafingMoose]

18. Isn't CAFTA suppose to totally open the south border...

and include bills that would give illegal aliens (and drug cartel hitmen) a citizenship?