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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Blue Crab Boulevard points out that the Democrats are willing to abandon their own principles to oppose President Bush:

When even the Washington Post has to scold the Democrats for their anti-trade policies, you know it has to be bad. They slam the intellectual dishonesty of the Democrats over the Colombian free trade deal pretty hard this morning.

There are two important countries at the north of South America. One, Colombia, has a democratic government that, with strong support from the Clinton and Bush administrations, has bravely sought to defeat brutal militias of the left and right and to safeguard human rights. The other, Venezuela, has a repressive government that has undermined media freedoms, forcibly nationalized industries, rallied opposition to the United States and, recent evidence suggests, supported terrorist groups inside Colombia. That U.S. unions, human rights groups and now Democrats would focus their criticism and advocacy on the former, to the benefit of the latter, shows how far they have departed from their own declared principles.

The Post points out that there has been real progress in Colombia in controlling violence by President Álvaro Uribe. Things are not by any means perfect there, but they are getting better. A free trade deal would go a long way toward recognizing and rewarding that progress.

Barack Obama has stated that he would meet - without preconditions - with thugs like Hugo Chavez while the Democrat-controlled Congress stonewalls an ally. What kind of a message is the world getting from these behaviors? Simple: it's better to be an enemy of the United States than it is to be a friend. That's pretty sad.

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