Bush Scolds Congress on Colombia Trade Pact

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The Washington Post

President Bush today rebuked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for blocking a vote on a trade agreement with Colombia, saying the bill is "dead" unless a vote is scheduled and complaining that killing it would "stiff" an important U.S. ally.

In brief remarks to reporters after a Cabinet meeting, Bush renewed White House attacks on Pelosi for engineering a rule change in the House last week that effectively shelved the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Pelosi has charged that Bush submitted the accord before ironing out differences with Democratic leaders in Congress, and she has demanded that the administration accept additional domestic economic stimulus provisions before a vote on the pact. Democrats and union leaders who oppose the trade deal also have accused Colombian authorities of violently suppressing labor organizers.

Bush said today that there was "big disappointment around this table about the actions the speaker took on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement."

"This free trade agreement is good for American workers, and it's good for American consumers," he said. "And this free trade agreement is in our national interests. Yet that bill is dead unless the speaker schedules a definite vote."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041400991.html

[Acadia Blue]

1. Good for American workers. lol Good for American CEOs, Executives

and the "investor class."

[ut oh]

5. Prolly better for the CIA as well

easier to get all that coke across the border....

[Sal Minella]

9. That's what I was thinking.

[Ilsa]

2. I love it when he gets pouty and takes his ball home so no one else can play. nt

[Solly Mack]

3. a war criminal "scolds"

I scoff...

[Judi Lynn]

4. Maybe the next anthrax attacks will be on Democratic House members,rather than senators,like before.

No doubt someone will conclude it's time to shake up some more Democrats and neutralize them so _Bush will be able to sustain his reign of terror properly.

Not one peep from Republicans about their Colombian death squads torturing and assassinating Colombian union leaders to keep the remaining ones submissive. Instead we hear drooling idiots boasting about how much they adore having their bananas "wrapped."

They could use some "wrapping," all right.

[santamargarita]

6. This bastard has been a disappointment from birth!

K&R

[VP505]

7. "This free trade agreement is good for American workers, and it's good for American consumers"

So says the worst President in history, one with NO record of doing ANYTHING good for American workers or American consumers. That is unless you consider eliminating over site so that cheap junk loaded with lead and poison chemicals can be imported from China good for consumers.

[Arctic Dave]

8. "Stiff" an important US ally.

We can't overthrow Chavez and destabilize South Amereica without Colombia giving the CIA the use of their bases. Hey *, SUCK IT!!

[and-justice-for-all]

10. Let the prick cry himself to sleep....nt

[pleah]

11. Oh, poor baby. Maybe he will stamp his feet and hold

his breath until he turns blue and dies. I doubt we will be that lucky.

[bemildred]

12. He sure is becoming a whiner. Limp, quack, limp, quack ... nt

[Judi Lynn]

13. Pelosi says U.S. workers come ahead of Colombia pact

Pelosi says U.S. workers come ahead of Colombia pact
By Doug Palmer
2 hours, 33 minutes ago

Democrats will vote on a free trade agreement with Colombia only after the White House and Congress address urgent domestic economic concerns, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday.

"We still believe it is possible to bring the Colombia free trade agreement to the floor under the proper circumstances, but first we need to address the worsening economy," Pelosi told reporters.

Earlier, President George W. Bush said the pact was "dead" until Pelosi scheduled a vote.

"This has to be done in recognition not only of the concerns that we have about human rights violations of workers in Colombia, but based on the economic security of America's workers here in our country," the California Democrat said.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080414/pl_nm/usa_trade_colombia_dc