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Originally posted by Spanky
I am not pissing on it. I love the DLC. They are the voice of sanity in the Democrat party. But T-Rex was trying to claim that the Dems had legitimate reasons to vote against this bill (Ellen Tauscher) in paticular. I think this letter shows that the only reason why the normally pro-free trade Dems are thinking about voting against it is not because the bill is bad, it is just because they don't like the Bush administration and they don't like siding with the administration regardless of what the bill says. If the DLC supports it I don't see how one can argue that it is a bad bill or that it is rigged so much against the environment that the Democrats can't support it. In other words, Ellen Taucher's reason for voting against the bill is really just sout grapes.
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Funny -- when you first posted about that, you claimed that Tauscher's vote was motivated by the "fact" that she was in the pocket of the unions -- a silly claim, given her generally pro-business stance. (Something I pointed out then, while also noting that her stance surprised and somewhat disappointed me.)
Now you are saying it was "sour grapes." That is certainly more likely than your first theory. OTOH, "alien mind-control" is more likely than the theory that Tauscher is the (always monolithic) unions' bitch.
Have you checked to see if Tauscher's office had a stated reason for opposing CAFTA?
