Well, I did. I said that Senate Democrats were just posing when they voted down the “Fast Track” trade bill, and now, a mere month later, I’ve been proven right. Well, if you wait long enough, almost any prediction will come true, so, by that standard, this one was almost instantaneous. As my last post…
Tag: Democratic populism
42 Democrats in search of a policy
I don’t know if the recent vote in the Senate by 42 Democratic senators that temporarily derailed President Obama’s Pacific trade package was purely for show, but I suspect that much of it was. Politics is a two-way street, after all, and a smart politician always works both sides when he can. But there’s no…