Tancredo from last night:

MODERATOR:  Congressman Tancredo, I want to go back to something that came up earlier that’s the issue of trade.  Governor Romney suggested that one reason our trade problems are so bad is that the negotiators for the Bush administration don’t understand business well enough.  Do you thing that’s part of the problem?

TANCREDO:  No, no.  The negotiators for the Bush administration – probably the worst vote I ever passed was the vote to give the president Fast Track.  I wish I’d have never done it, and I’ll tell you why – because everything I have seen subsequent to that time has been a package, a trade package that I certainly am concerned about from this standpoint – not necessarily just the trade issues that we’re involved in – I mean, you know, talking about the tariffs – CAFTA.  Here was a bill over a thousand pages long to what – to do what, to redcue tariffs between the six Central American countries and the United States?  That was about a paragraph, right?  But it’s over a thousand pages.

What worries me about what we’ve done in trade, what this administration has done in particular, is that we’ve included all kinds of things in there that had nothing to do with trade.

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