Now I know our leaders are supposed to read and study Bills before they vote on them. This is a practice that has been determined to be unnecessary as GATT, NAFTA and the USA PATRIOT ACT have proven. Were the Congressmen allowed their recent pay raise because they did not object to the USA PATRIOT ACT ? You tell me.
Bush must have known that PNTR would draw some fire from his own party. But he evidently decided to do it anyway. You've got to ask yourself why. Do we represent such a minority that our views can be ignored with impunity? Are there other interests competing with ours, that overshadow us? Does Bush truly believe all this "inclusionary" rhetoric that sounds so vacuous if you substitute "the Nazis" for "the Chinese"? Why are we showing such spine to one set of our enemies while caving like a leaky coal mine before an equally sinister cabal?