Without question, yesterday’s elections will bring change to this country. We don’t yet know exactly what kind of change, except that it won’t involve Donald Rumsfeld. Rummy’s going home.
Others are wondering about it too… especially in regard to trade policies. CanWest news service reports:
OTTAWA – Free trade between Canada and the U.S. could resurface as a thorny issue after the Democratic party won an influential swath of Washington’s political real estate Tuesday night, said a former ambassador to the United States and political adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Derek Burney, who was posted to Washington under Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney in 1989, said that on the issue of trade with Canada “there’s not much good news” that can come from the election result because Democrats are more likely to bring a “protectionist” bent to their work in Congress, as opposed to Republicans who bring a “freer-trade mentality.”
Hmmm. The Canadians tend to be a fairly liberal lot, and that’s fine — they can govern as they choose. There is just a touch of irony in the fact that they prefer the Dems’ ideology, but the Republicans’ way of doing business.
Russia’s a little worried about it too —
The Democratic takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday is likely to stall Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organization, lawmakers from both parties said Wednesday.
Doubts voiced by U.S. officials came on the same day that Russia’s top trade official, German Gref, declared the country was steadily moving closer to WTO accession.
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The candle in the corner? That’s for GAC. Today’s been a much better day.
“There is just a touch of irony in the fact that they prefer the Dems’ ideology, but the Republicans’ way of doing business.”
Heh.
There is more than just a touch of irony in your trying to pass off remarks from a representative of a conservative Canadian gov’t representative from 1989 as a representative of current Canadian political thinking.
Following on the heels of your over-reaction to the stock market, this further demonstrates your keen desire to invent harmful consequences for Tuesday’s repudiation of the Republicans. You are capable of better than this, netmom. Why not admit that your party has been taken over by extremists and as a result, has been repudiated?