The question is whether the President and his team will acquiesce to this demand to tie the futures of American workers to more corporate-written trade deals.

To be followed by some quality hippie-punching. Win-win!

A few years ago the House Committee on Oversight reported that the Trade Adjustment Assistance program was a failure, so the idea that this is being held hostage to the passage of several ill-considered free trade agreements doesn’t faze me at all.

Fuck it, this country is ungovernable. The psychotic Impoverish Everyone (Except Us) Faster and Faster Industrial Complex has irrevocably won.

Think I’ll move to Rio and be Glennzilla’s cool aging lesbo next-door neighbor.

I guess the Ds holding the passage of “several ill-considered free trade agreements” hostage to fixing the Trade Adjustment Assistance program would be too much to ask for? /s

Harry Reid Sez:

Now is not the time to roll back programs to help U.S. workers hurt by trade and outsourcing.”

But, darn it! If we have to kneecap US Workers to get a tripartisan agreement with my esteemed Republican Colleagues and my good friend Joe Lieberman, then by golly, we’ll do what we have to do.

President’s Trade Representative announced the most ambitious trade agenda for 2011 that we have seen in years. Now is not the time to roll back programs to help U.S. workers hurt by trade and outsourcing.”

In other words, the democratic president is sending more jobs overseas and that is all Harry says about that? The president’s plan is going to hurt “U>S>” workers because of trade and outsourcing and that is all Harry has to say?? WTF… I am so sick of these weak ass politicians who do not give a shit about the people of this country. and we are supposed to be pissed that the republicans will do nothing to protect American workers from the democratic president?

I have been worried about Glenn today, no article posted. After seeing that info about that spy co wanting to attack him, I am concerned. have you heard anything today?

Never saw that coming.
Fucking spineless Senate Vichy Democrats. Had a chance to reform the rules but instead made a “gentleman’s agreement” with people who have never been interested in being gentlemen.

He’s really scaring me…Bush pissed me off, but he never scared me. Barry is like a snake or something.

The first of many more to come Margaret.
Harry was a stooge to think that the Republics would work with him. They said whatever needed to be said at the time to kill the reform.

Nope. But I’m assuming he’s a) still somewhat under the weather, and b) not going to just dive into that crapola reactively. I’m sure he’ll address it as he sees fit, but in general he’s is the anti-Assange – i.e. doing everything he can to keep the spotlight off himself personally and on the tyranny complex itself.

Frankly I’ve been worried about his safety for a while now. It’s an evil, evil bunch of assholes in charge of this place.

The trade adjustment training programs are failures. This was simply window dressing to assuage Congressional and Presidential consciences (if they even have such) for knowingly destroying the U.S. work force. The data is there; the statistics are there; good, solid, jobs providing a living wage and human dignity have been permanently ripped asunder. For what occupation? For what job? Get real, you over paid, selfish, bag of lice…U.S. trade policy must radically change to restore the U.S. economy and the American worker and yesterday was already too late! Retraining my ass!

In the above, I was referring to U.S. Senate and U.S. House Members and the Executive Branch and US Trade Representative and staff and US Trade Development Authority when I said above, ‘you over paid, selfish, bag of lice’ as most if not all have never, ever actually worked at a salaried wage earner job an honest day in their lives and are clueless as to the role and value and solid contribution of the American worker and his/her job they so cavalierly destroy for their own agenda.

Republicans just broke the gentlemen’s agreement on getting bills to the floor to try and force the President to sign off on some corporate-written trade bills

Obama being forced to sign corporate-written bills – that’s more like his bread and butter where he’ll cut a deal in the nearest backroom to do it.

You really do need to give the man a break he just now noticed today that we were “witnessing history in the making” in Egypt.

I have always felt that way about obama, much better con man then bush ever was.

Redistribute The Poverty.

Joe Scarborough: “The real problem with America is that poor people have toomuch money”.

You really do need to give the man a break he just now noticed today that we were “witnessing history in the making” in Egypt.

And that we can’t go back.

Now is not the time to roll back programs to help U.S. workers hurt by trade and outsourcing

Damn shame that now can’t be the time to stop hurting US workers through trade and outsourcing, I hear there’s something of an unemployment problem. I guess that would be cutting a bit too close to the actual problem.

American workers will never be protected under these trade agreements, doesn’t matter what language is put into the agreement. Just don’t do them!

he data is there; the statistics are there; good, solid, jobs providing a living wage and human dignity have been permanently ripped asunder.

not only that, but the Mexican workers, (where the Nafta deal us jobs went) work in horrible conditions. so it’s a loss for the workers in the countries these jobs went/are going to.

I well remember those days, when factory owners just drove semi trucks and trailers up to factories, and simply shipped the entire production machinery off to Mexico.

I read that sometimes it was done literally overnight. don’t know if that’s true.

part of union breaking. any threat of a strike was met with plant closure.

Nice work clinton and the rest of them. He used a sledge hammer to get this done.

Yeah, but what bipartisan agreements on education??? Arrrggghhh!