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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
This, more than anything else, is why I could never be Republican.* You have become the Party of the Sound Bite, incapable of considering whether any argument could possibly lie outside your tautology. I'm willing to bet that you don't have a clue what Tauscher or anyone else has to say about the environmental or labor issues, but you dismiss them out of hand because, in your tautology, Tauscher = Democrat = union whore = uniformly anti-free trade. (While Repub = Chamber of Commerce = goodness and light. I guess the sugar industry jumped off the bus somewhere, but whatever.)
Fact is, in many instances I agree with you -- I find your Ayn Rand, free trade will save the universe view pretty over the top, but I do generally support free trade (I disagree with you on the notion that dictatorships are good, or that they can possibly have free markets, but whatever). But, like so many Repubs -- even the generally rational ones -- you fall back on the sound bites. Dems are evil. Dems are in the pocket of Unions. It's the trial lawyers' fault. Liberal, liberal, liberal.
* Also the whole thing about being taken over by the fundamentalist Christians.
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You talk in absolutes which in politics is absurd. You are the one using sound bites. I don't talk in absolutes nor do I use soudbites. I defend every position I take. You may call them soundbites but every sentence after the Tauscher comment is true. I attacked Tauscher because the DLC supports the deal. I actually know Tauscher personally and have met her staff. If I am going to trust someone it will be the DLC over Tauscher.
And to say that the Republican party is caught up in a knee jerk tautology may have some validity but in my opinion the Dems are worse. The DLCs comments on CAFTA are proof. The fact that they have to tell their own people to get over their emotions and do what is right shows that. The Republicans may have hated Clinton but they gave him fast track authority and supported his free trade deals.
