From Deseret News archives:
CAFTA vote may have clinched win for Matheson
Southeastern Republican congressmen, sensitive to textile and sugar industries concerned with the pact, stalled the bill for almost a year. Wounded from failed Social Security reform efforts and dropping public confidence in the Iraq struggle, President Bush prioritized CAFTA this spring in order to demonstrate his relevancy. However, Bush & Company demonstrated their usual incompetence in garnering broad national support on anything, and CAFTA was doomed to fail. Smelling blood for an opportunity to embarrass the administration, Democratic leadership, labor unions and a variety of leftist organizations made CAFTA an ideological litmus test. Labor more than drew a line in the sand; it carved a canal and dared Democrats to cross. Even in the midst of the recent split at the Chicago convention last month, presidents of the 20 largest unions sent a letter to the Democratic national leaders threatening "real and measurable consequences" in opposing labor, and no Democrat member of Congress could receive a "pass on CAFTA."
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