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It's not perfect by any means, but it's good news that the Democrat-controlled congress and the administration have been able to work out a template for approving new bilateral Free Trade Agreements, with a minimum of labor and environmental restrictions layered on. The Left is yowling, though, because Big Labor doesn't want any new FTAs done at all, on any terms. Here's a sample of how the Leftist bloggers on Big Labor's payroll do their dirty work -- David Sirota's daily installment on what he keeps calling "the secret deal."

It is now five days since a handful of senior Democrats joined with the Bush administration to announce a new ?deal? on free trade, while refusing to release the actual legislative language of the deal. Today, environmental and health advocates have come out slamming the deal, noting like other grassroots groups that what the deal doesn?t cover says as much about its potential problems as does the secrecy the deal is shrouded in.

The technique here is to slander the bilateral trade template by calling it "secret," helping the faithful on the Left hate it before they even read the details. There's nothing "secret" about this -- no more "secret" than any political framework that gets worked out among numerous parties in interest, and then announced once it is done. And there is no "legislative language" that anyone's hiding, because this isn't legislation. It's just a framework that congressional leadership believes will get broad enough support for the FTA's on the agenda to pass the full House and Senate. The terms are available to any and all to read on the web site of the House Ways and Means Committee.

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