Some of them were vacuum-packed for the Americans to pick up – angling for the elevated box office, Oscars push, fast-track to global attention, the whole circus.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told reporters last week that it's "maddening" how much the administration has pushed fast-track on them.
In addition, the administration has used the attacks to justify a new push for "fast track" authority, which would allow trade agreements to be enacted with little Congressional oversight -- another measure long opposed by protesters and organized labor because it allows little debate.
President Obama and corporatist lackies in Congress in both parties are now pushing to fast track the TransPacific Partnership, a managed "trade" deal like NAFTA that will mean more outsourcing, more imports from poor countries with dollar-an-hour wages and more power for unelected bureaucrats to rewrite our laws in secret.
We've come to know Tim DeChristopher through his one courageous act of civil disobedience -- of disrupting an ill-conceived oil and gas auction on 150,000 acres of public lands in southern Utah that the George W. Bush administration pushed through fast track leasing during the last days of his presidency.
After the budget, Congress' will push to pass "fast track" legislation, to grease the skids for the TPP.
Republican leaders in the House are struggling to push through a "fast track" bill for trade agreements, which administration officials say is crucial to negotiating good ones.
They have also pushed for fast tracking the TPP, which would suppress opponents' capacity to negotiate an agreement that does not circumvent commonsense consumer safeguards.
The Bush administration is pushing hard for fast track, now renamed "trade-promotion authority".
President Obama, the Chamber of Commerce, and other corporate groups are pushing hard for fast track authority to pass these secret trade agreements while effectively bypassing oversight from Congress.
President Obama is pushing hard for "fast track" approval of his Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP") Agreement, calling for a simple up or down vote without the possibility of amendments or floor debate.
