Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Here's a featurette: the AFL-CIA blog watch.

Item one:

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/11/10/report-fair-trade-a-winning-issue-nov-7

The effect of "free trade baiting" on Dem runs in socially conservative districts with job-loss hot spots. Example first among equals:

NC Demmer Heath Fooler, running hard as a "fair trader", whips job-exportin' CAFTA scumsuckin' repug stooge.

Item two:

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/11/22/new-congress-to-bring-fresh-wind-to-trade-issues/

More on fair trade and this November's ballot box. Notice, in this piece the farmer is thrown in with the factory worker, in typical pie-head cross-back lobby-scratchin' mishmash, quoting a Michigan pie chief in a think column for the Detroit News: "For the manufacturing worker it's "will my job be outsourced next?" For the farmer it's "will another trade agreement put yet another crop into worldwide price-cutting competition?" And for the rural small business person the worry is "when my customers suffer, how long before I am next?" My takeaway: support the agri lobby's phoney Farmer Brown front for expediency max, and widening out to the whole job nation.

What is to be done? According to the AFL, that is:

• Slow President Bush's rush to negotiate new bilateral free trade agreements.
• Review all current agreements.
• Reform the current trade regime so that we can renew our commitment to participating in a just global economy, one that works for working families and not just to boost the profits and power of multinational corporations

Quite a toothy attack plan by Generalissimo Pie-Critter, eh? How 'bout that "review all current agreements..."? I'd say, how about we attack the job killer number one -- the imperial dollar and its entourage of North currencies?

Item three :

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/11/21/afl-cio-calls-on-bush-to-shut-down-school-of-americas/

My favorite -- a spotlight on heros aqnd martyrs records the bold participation of a big face pie-card at an actual demostration somewhere not too far from the school for Latin American torture.

Why yer fave, Paine?

The post -- for balance, one suspects -- goes on to cite a "blistering" report on the academiy of manslaughter by nothing less then the brass hat school's old friend, and big labor's own winsome cold war mastodon, the AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center." Yes, that little shop of dirty foreign tricks, the nexus of nasty itself for all AFL-CIA class-backward interventions since Stalin wore argyles.

Ah, life's little ironies.