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Let the Portman trade bamboozlement begin...

modernesquire - Posted on 30 January 2009

(HT: Weapons of Mass Discussion)

So apparently one Ohio conservative blog reports that Portman is desparately trying to distance himself from former President Bush's free trade policies.   Which is a difficult thing to do when you happen to be former President Bush's former Trade Representative who lobbied Congress to support President Bush's free trade policies:

Recently, Rob Portman addressed his critic’s chief compliant. According to a source with knowledge of the conversation, Portman distanced himself from Bush Administration trade policy; specifically citing NAFTA related issues. Portman served as United States Trade Representative from 2005-2007.

I hate cryptic blog posts.  It's either cryptic on purpose, poorly sourced, poorly reported, or just poorly written.

Portman is distancing himself from Bush trade policy based on NAFTA??  That would be the same NAFTA that then Congressman Rob Portman voted for (and then Congresspersons Ted Strickland and Sherrod Brown voted against?)

I smell a politician trying to lay the groundwork to use the Goebbells defense of "I was just following orders."

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Another thought
Submitted by modernesquire on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 11:22am.
What does it say about Portman as a leader if he was willing to go with the flow and put his own name and reputation out there to get Congress to implement something he believed in his heart was bad policy? Frankly, I don't see how Portman runs from his past, and I think it's a mistake for him to even try. The struggle just make him look foolish.
Portman May Want To Read A Few History Books
Submitted by William Michael... on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 12:44pm.
I agree with Modern. Congressman Portman's attempts to distance himself from his own past will provide great street theater in the months ahead. I'm reminded of the last Republican politician who attempted to portray himself as being clueless while his colleagues were busily trashing the United States Constitution and the government of America...Richard Nixon. You may recall he did not finish his second term in office. As stated so eloquently by Ohio's own Bill Saxbe, he reminds me of ""the man who plays piano at a bawdy house for 20 years and says he doesn't know what's going on upstairs." Good luck Rob. As the late great Ann Richards of Texas would say: "You don't need to be from Waco to know that dog won't hunt." Bill Oneill
Bill O'Neill

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