Giraldo’s murder not only silenced an unexpected voice for free trade, it also jacked up union killings data to stoke the case in the U.S. against Colombia’s pact

Whenever a poll comes out that people on this blog don’t like, the knee-jerk reaction is to say “the sample is too small.” So IBD brings up one murder out of 2,200 mentioned in the Sweeney letter, and says that the inclusion of that murder “jacked up union killings data.”
I’m not a pollster, but I think a sample of one out of 2,200 is too small of a sample.

DakRoland on April 8, 2008 at 12:09 PM

right2bright on April 8, 2008 at 12:44 PM

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- The Cat

Amazing how our politicians sidle up to our enemies, and stab us in the back.

When exactly have Democrats not done this?

This is who Democrats are. When they aren’t selling out their country, they are stealing money by the truck load.

Democrats politicians are absolute scum, period. Else why would they be associated with the other Democrat party scum?

The difficulty in getting only about 30 House Democrats to provide the needed margin of victory reflects the Democratic Party’s abandonment of free trade over the past half-century. Less obvious, labor’s intense opposition shows that the AFL-CIO no longer leads the way against the far left throughout the world, as it did under George Meany and Lane Kirkland in bygone years. Their successors are not concerned with the prospect of Chavez, allied with communist Cuba, dominating the Western Hemisphere. …
A rare insight into what the Uribe regime really thinks is going on was provided me by Vice President Francisco Santos on one of the many trips to Washington by senior Colombian officials to court congressional support. Santos told me Chavez’s controlled labor unions in Venezuela are in close touch with Colombia’s leftist unions, who in turn influence the AFL-CIO. Thus, the labor intransigence in Washington can be traced to Caracas.

Amazing how our politicians sidle up to our enemies, and stab us in the back.

As a Canadian,of course, that’s not all bad…but it would be pretty shortsighted of the US Congress to penalize an ally whose economy grew 7.4% last year.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june08/tradepact_04-07.html

“Unions are more important than prosperity.”
“Why?”
“Because they foster prosperity.”

Wha?

Sign the damned thing, people. The “lands to the South” very clearly need a positive role model.

Did someone bust Hot Air? It’s not showing all the nice page layouts.

DakRoland on April 8, 2008 at 12:09 PM

That happened to me the other day, and everyone else said they had no problem. Today it looks fine to me.
When it happened to me, all of the ads were beneath the comments and the comments stretched across the whole page.

Instead of penalizing Colombia for their progress, the US should welcome Colombia into a free-trade agreement.

Heartily agreed.

Monica Showalter will be my guest on this afternoon’s Ed Morrissey Show at 3 pm ET.

Looking forward to hearing the podcast!