The initial reports, that Pelosi’s move to change to House Rules after Bush officially submitted the Columbia Free Trade Agreement, Pelosi will change the house rules, so they won’t be forced to vote in 90 days.

While everyone else was cheering, David Sirota thought that the celebration was premature. He thought that it might not be a way to kill the CFTA, but rather a way to save it.

Well, he has now seen references that the Democrats are actually using the delay to push it out past the elections, so that they can get more votes ( see here and here).

It looks like they are planning for a lame duck session to approve it:

Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) was confident that House leaders would schedule a vote on the trade pact in a post-election session, when wavering members would be more willing to support it. “I think there’ll be a vote in the latter part of November, or early December,” he said, adding it would likely be approved in those circumstances.

Let’s be clear on this. Columbia has been using its government to murder labor organizers, and under Uribe, it continues to do so.

This is not a government that we want to cut this deal with.