DeLay: House Will Pass CAFTA
According to House Republicans – today is the day for CAFTA. (Or rather, tonight. Wanting to miss the evening news?)
House will pass CAFTA tonight: DeLay
Jul 27, 11:11 AM (ET)
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) – 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 [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.”
Mr. DeLay hits on an important point – “very few Democrats” should be supporting CAFTA to begin with, especially Democrats from Iowa.
With fitting timing, Tom Frank commented on TPM Cafe about where Democrats (and progressives in general) should stand on economic issues:
We need to point out the massive contradiction between the cons’
populist, “family values” rhetoric and their free-market practice. When
conservatives talk about how Xtreme and revolutionary the laissez-faire
system is, we should agree with them—and then point out what exactly
this means: the destruction of the world you grew up in. If left to
itself, free-market capitalism would empty our towns and bid our wages
down to nothing and drill for oil in the Grand Canyon and hook us all
up to non-stop virtual-reality advertising goggles for the rest of our
days. It doesn’t give a damn about families or values or very much
else. This is why you once had so many liberals in this country:
liberals protected people from these forces. That’s what we were about.
Thus,
CAFTA should be a Republicans-only bill, passed in the name of the
“American People”, passed for the benefit of concentrated corporate
power.
There's still time to call Tom Latham!
Toll-free numbers to reach the Capitol switchboard:
866-340-9281, 866-340-9279, 877-762-8762
The vote on CAFTA is today. Tom Latham of Iowa is on the fence.
If Latham is your representative, call his office and let him know that
his health voters are looking very carefully at this vote, etc. ASK HIM TO VOTE AGAINST CAFTA.
As you know CAFTA has the CODEX-like agreement within it which would
impact access to our vitamins and supplements. We need an amazing
flurry of calls.
Washington DC Switchboard 202 224-3121
Ask for Mike Gruber in Cong. Latham's office and leave a message on his voice mail
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