I don’t type as fast as Dan, so you get bonus coverage of the seemingly cozy relationship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MD) and the unabashedly Marxist-Leninist terrorists of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
That Pelosi was staking out “an alternative Democratic foreign policy†with respect to Syria and Iran was already known. These continuing revelations about the Dems’ contacts with FARC are news, but follow in the grand tradition of Congressional Dems cozying up to Communists to our south. Former Rep. Ron Dellums (D-CA) and current Rep. Barabara Lee (D-CA) were friendly with the Marxist regime in Grenada. US Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT), John F. Kerry (D-MA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) all liked to conduct freelance diplomacy with Sandanista thug Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua — as did House Speaker Jim Wright (D-TX), despite the fact that his predecessor Tip O’Neill (D-MA) was “embarrassed” when Ortega went off to the Soviet Union for aid after one such session. More recently, Reps. John Conyers (D-MI), William Delahunt (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) are among those wanting to get close to Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has advocated beefing up Chavez’s military. Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) was among those sticking his nose into the Columbian hostage situation and cozying up to Chavez in the process.ÂÂ
In the meantime, Pelosi keeps the Colombian free trade deal off the House floor on the ground that President ÃÂlvaro Uribe has not done enough to quell political violence in this country, particularly against unionists — though since Uribe took office, the murder rate among all Colombians is down 40% while the murder rate among union members – whom Pelosi seems singularly worried about – is down 87%. Apparently, sucking up to the protectionist labor unions is so important that Congressional Democrats — from Pelosi on down — are willing to cozy up with Communist thugs and terrorists to advance their agenda.
Update: HotAir-lanche!
union members – whom Pelosi seems singularly worried about
Unless, of course, they’re working in a tuna cannery in American Samoa.
SBP,
True, ‘dat.
Don’t think I don’t sense the snark, Karl. ;-P
In the meantime, Pelosi keeps the Colombian free trade deal off the House floor on the ground that President ÃÂlvaro Uribe has not done enough to quell political violence in this country
Interesting how that happens huh? From the WSJ article:
Pelosi is a racist like Baracky. Hispanic people really have to fall in line 100% and do what they’re fucking told if they want a trade deal. Baracky even wants to renegotiate old ones, cause the spics just aren’t behaving right the way he sees it. Baracky sure has a firm hand when it comes to those people.
Si se puede and I will tell you how, so listen up you stupid spics.
Dan,
You would not say that if you saw me hunting and pecking — and still ending up with typos (that last part you know about).
And that’s what’s so absofuckinglutely hilarious about the whole mess.
Colombian goods enter the United States freely, and have for years, since the last free-trade agreement.
The one before us now dismantles most of Colombia’s protectionism, allowing US goods to enter Colombia on pretty much the same basis as theirs enter the US.
For any country, the US included, more exports = more jobs, including Union jobs. Having the Democratic leadership shoot down the Colombian FTA thus reduces employment. No more jobs! Hip, hip, hooray! errr….
Regards,
Ric
Since when have the Democrats missed an opportunity to cave into/covertly aid Communist scum?
You’re assuming the Democrats actually care about jobs outside of the public sector.
Ric is right and really that fact should have been in the original post I think cause it bears repeating a lot and then some more. Democrats are not about creating private sector jobs. It’s just not what they do.
Well, to go further along that line, it could be noted that the main reason our economy is not currently in recession is the export sector, so you can see why Dems would be down on exports.
What is this Logan Act of which you speak?
I saw on the news there was a poll of whether we were in a recession or not. Seems we are.
Perception is reality, you silly fact-obsessed people.
For the Democrats in Congress it may have more to do with sucking up to tyrants of all stripes. Pelosi to Syria and remember Jim McDermott and David Bonior with Saddam.
A law that says when you’re 30 a crystal implanted in your palm starts blinking and you have to report to be executed.
Ah, the fiery ritual of Carousel.
This certainly explains why McCain got a briefing the night before the raid
Stop questioning their patriotism. They don’t have any.
Not “anti-war”; more like “on the other side.”
Renew! Renew! Renew!
Men are all hunter-peckers by nature.
Men are all hunter-peckers by nature.
Well, the Gleens and Andrew Sullivans of the world do reverse the order of that.
Ah, the fiery ritual of Carousel.
Yeah, those bulbs can get pretty hot. Mix that with the old nitrate-base stock, and your vacation show can be a little more exciting than you’d really planned on it being.
(the nishis on here are going “Huh? WTF is he talking about?”
We went wrong when we got rid of bakelite 78’s, let alone wax cylinders.
I like sedition with Mayo and a touch of salt.
Mayo thread’s down a few posts, dre.
“Well, the Gleens and Andrew Sullivans of the world do reverse the order of that.”
– Yeh, but then a stroke of gushing enthusiasm for a solution, and a strongly felt reach around, coupled with an end run, sliding any stiff resistance forcefully back into the balance of trade column.
(hows that for number of double entendres in one sentence?)
– Be nice to finish the sentence – “column, and you’ll have them eating out of your hand, and coming back over and over.”
BBH –
Keep that stuff up (:0) and things will go quantum. Then who can know where we will be in the end?
“Then who can know where we will be in the end?”
– Reaching critical ass, and overheating our fuel rods?
Once Shirley Jones sings, it’s over, man! It’s over!
(Being silly because when the hell were Congresspeople this evil before?)
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Mayo thread’s down a few posts, dre.”
Raw sedition tastes almost like caviar.
Vaguely OT: I’m watching Escape from NY now and that commie stewardess was talking…“Tell this to the workers when they ask where their leader went. We, the soldiers of The National Liberation Front of America, in the name of the workers and all the oppressed of this imperialist country, have struck a fatal blow to the fascist police state. What better revolutionary example than to let their president perish in the inhuman dungeon of his own imperialist prison.”
And we’re all like Haha, they still fkn talk like that….all she needed was a Code Pink outfit.
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Should be Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-Massachusetts), not Rep. Jim McGovern (MD – Maryland).
Maryland’s CongressCritters are a bad lot, but have yet (I hope) stooped to the malfeasant treachery
so common in the Massachusetts delegation.
I checked my copy of the Constitution and couldn’t find any of this sort of thing under any of the section involving Congress.
Perhaps, this sort of stuff should revert to the states.
Did I hear on the news this AM that Chávez has ties to Hizb’allah?
Doesn’t that hit the trifecta: Old-School Marxists (Castro) + U.S. Apologists + Muslim Terrorists?
This really frosts me, folks. I lived in Colombia for 15 months, and that country has been through enough what with the FARC and the militias and the drug lords, yo. I’d really like to see them prosper like crazy; so why people like Pelosi and her hordes want to undermine them is a real mystery. What’s in it for her? Seriously, what?
Union money.
Men are all hunter-
peckerspokers by nature.There. fixed that for you. Unles I screwed up the HTML again….
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Actually the National Liberation Front of America; who were waging a guerilla struggle in the midst of a rather tepid
war with the Russians;wouldn’t be that out of possibility in light of the Weathermen, Ayers and Rosenberg’s outfit
and the Symbionese Liberation Front, which were satirized in the borderline anarchic Network as the Ecumenical Liberation Front, which in the end, killed the Olbermannish Howard Beale because his downbeat ratings were dragging down ratings. The NLFA were a sideshow to Donald Sutherland’s would be fascist president; who turned Manhattan into Alcatraz, & militarized the National Police, in a get up out of THX 1138. The point ‘jumped the shark’ in the execrable sequel with Cliff Robertson’s manque of Pat Robertson, would be considered the greater enemy. The really eerie part of the film, from the vantage point of 2008; was that the WTC was Plissken’s landing site. The other odd part in the likes of Morford,
Marshall, Sheehan, et al; right as if they are writing from that parallel world, maybe they are, it would explain a lot.
Instapundit is a academic. Shoot now.
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“Colombian goods enter the United States freely, and have for years, since the last free-trade agreement.”
The tariff schedules and quotas on the USTR website don’t seem to describe the agreement this way.
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Did I hear on the news this AM that Chávez has ties to Hizb’allah?
Affirmative
Karl, the financial sector is writing down $1.5T. Home sales are at decades-old lows. Gas is at relative Carter-era highs. The govt lies about inflation — it’s three times higher than they say. We’re some $60T in combined debt. We’re the largest debtor nation in the history of history. Exports are shite, Karl.
Really, it’s time the right — us — got real about the Ponzi scheme called US monetary policy.
(Oh, and RONPAUL!! Just thought I’d get that out of the way.)
Anyway, as I say, we’re not exactly avoiding anything. Except accounting it truthfully.
“The govt lies about inflation  it’s three times higher than they say.”
Interesting. Got a link w/ more?
Drop “actual inflation government lies” into Google.
Let’s not forget the alcoholic woman killer either…
Kennedy Offered to Help Soviets Thwart U.S. Policies, KGB Papers Show
And don’t forget those Bilderbergers, either!
Yah, that’s an authoritative source.
“Yah, that’s an authoritative source.”
And one that tells me to basically ignore things like how the same money that buys you 500 gig hard drive bought many less gigs a year ago.
Well, with socialized medicine now said to be assured, Rob, I think there’s little taste round even these parts for talk of the biggest fraud in history: US monetary policy.
Far be it from me to argue that we only got what we wanted. Give it a couple years, tho.
So what part of $1,600,000,000,000 in credit writedowns in 18 months don’t you understand, pmann?
Damn Democrats done badmouthing the economy and all that…
“So what part of $1,600,000,000,000 in credit writedowns in 18 months don’t you understand, pmann?”
Whats to not understand? Shit blows. But that’s different than getting lied to about the price of hard drives.
Probably I miss your point, but filled my tank with hard drives today, I did.