Friday, March 20, 2009

How To Keep Our Attention

Rich Lowry, writing today in National Review Online:
Democrats profess to love our allies — unless they want to trade with us. Mexico joins South Korea and Colombia among friends we are stiffing on trade. Perhaps if they got together and started an illicit nuclear-weapons program, they would be treated with more solicitude.
The Mexican truck issue is not an easy one - but Obama has killed a study program, signaling "we're not even going to pretend to consider that."

At a time when we need to work closely with Mexico in order to avoid a breakdown of civil authority south of the border - we do this.