Daily Kos: The Free Trade Myth

by gjohnsit
Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 01:32:12 PM PST

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. - Michael Badnarik

The Washington Post had an article the other day that touched upon a very interesting result of the recent election.

Looking at the Democrats who picked up formerly Republican House seats, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch tallies 27 who defeated (or replaced resigning) free-trade Republicans and who campaigned against the kind of trade deals that Congress has ratified.

That's 27 out of the 29 Democratic pickups just a year after the GOP Congress passed CAFTA in a midnight vote.