{"id":26989,"date":"2011-10-13T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26989"},"modified":"2011-10-13T06:38:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:38:20","slug":"more-washington-post-electioneering-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26989","title":{"rendered":"More Washington Post electioneering BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My delicate eyes were assaulted by this headline in the business section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/obama-gets-win-as-congress-passes-free-trade-agreements\/2011\/10\/12\/gIQAGHeFgL_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> this morning;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Washington-Post-FOS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26990\" title=\"Washington Post FOS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Washington-Post-FOS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Washington-Post-FOS.png 822w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Washington-Post-FOS-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A win? Relly? The trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama were all negotiated under President Bush. They were stalled by Democrats during their reign in Congress for various left-wing reasons (they wanted fewer unionists killed in Colombia and they were angry that Martinelli, a conservative, was elected in Panama). Republicans in Congress have pushing for passage of these Free Trade Agreements for more than four years &#8211; so congratualations, Mr President, you get a &#8220;win&#8221; because the republicans took Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Given the famous political leanings of the Post, I&#8217;m sure if their archivs went back far enough, I could probably find instances of their opposition to the Bush Administration&#8217;s attemts at passing the FTAs with Colombia and Panama. I did however find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/21\/AR2007052101672_2.html\">Washington Post article from 2007<\/a> in which they report that Democrats were holding up the FTA with Colombia;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/waPo-Colombia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/waPo-Colombia.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"waPo Colombia\" width=\"500\" height=\"108\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26991\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lisa-haugaard\/the-uscolombia-fta-bad-deal_b_983780.html\">Huffington Post article<\/a> from just a few days ago which still opposes the Colombia FTA for leftist reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But, yeah, congats Mr Obama for getting the Republicans to vote the way they&#8217;ve wanted to vote for more than four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My delicate eyes were assaulted by this headline in the business section of the Washington Post &hellip; <a title=\"More Washington Post electioneering BS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26989\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Washington Post electioneering BS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}