It's vital to keep pounding your representatives in CONgress about the pending Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
Our sources are telling us that the vote will happen tonight, with republican traitor Tom Delay promising a midnight massacre. Those that are close to the scene in Washington are now telling us that the republican attitudes have become arrogant as they now believe they have enough votes for late-night passage of the CAFTA measure.
Earlier in the day, President George W. Bush addressed swaying republicans to whip them in line.
In a address to the Organization of American States, Bush actually had the audacity to call the CAFTA agreement a jobs program.
"Now I don't see how a member of Congress can go back to his or her district and say (the current law) is a good deal for America when our exports to Central America face hefty tariffs. By eliminating barriers to their exports from our country, CAFTA would help keep the U.S. economy growing. In other words, this is a jobs program. This will help jobs."
Majority leader Tom Delay admitted that the vote for CAFTA was a departure from the best interests of legislators' voting districts when he said, "we are here not only to represent our districts but to represent the nation".
Delay told Reuters, "It will be a tough vote but we'll pass CAFTA tonight. We will honor our commitments to the south, we will protect our national security and will do it all with very few Democrats."
The CAFTA vote, if it goes the way Delay predicts, will be what's become standard fare in American politics. While the rest of the nation is sleeping, they're bidding America goodbye.
