Re: Fast track, Clinton, and bourgeois democracy

1997-11-11 Thread valis
Quoth John Gulick, re some NYT potherings: This is preposterous, pathetic, and hilarious all at the same time. Clinton touts "spreading the ideals of American democracy (sic)" as one of the virtues of FTA's, and then not only subverts it in practice in the U.S., but also philosophically

Fast track, Clinton, and bourgeois democracy

1997-11-07 Thread john gulick
From today's _NYT_, Clinton argued that if the House vote were taken in secret, "it would pass overwhelmingly," but that members of Congress were under intense pressure to vote against the measure, an oblique reference to the political clout of organized labor, which opposes it. He accused