Free trade is no panacea -- for Colombia to fully benefit from this deal it will need to accompany the agreement with sound economic policies that boost competitiveness. |
In the eight months he's been in office, he certainly has done a tremendous amount of work. He has mastered a very complex brief in an extraordinarily short period of time. |
It hasn't been handled very well. I would have thought the administration would have learned a lesson from the China National Offshore Oil Corp. of last year. |
Many of the bills that have been introduced are designed only to send a strong signal, both to our trading partners and to [the president]. Most are not designed to be implemented into law. |
So far so good, but he's got to bring home the bacon, and he's got a long way to go to do that. |
This record will likely remain unblemished in 2006. |