Could be that Obama might think getting Harper liquored up could work.

Of course, only three of the 219 Republicans in Congress voted for Porkulus, and Harper is more conservative than those three.

This and the odious “Buy American” provisions in the Porkulus bill are red meat to the unions, while threatening the entire trade regime we have been working upon since the first GATT in 1947.

Anyone else hear the echo of Smoot-Hawley and the results of the last international trade war we started with the foolish notion we could “protect” our economy by building walls against imaginary enemies?

Since Obama sent Churchill’s bust back, perhaps we should reflect upon the great man’s wisdom:

“We say that every man shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, whenever he chooses, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state . . . in pursuit of this simple plan there came last year into England from every land and people under the sun, millions worth of merchandise, so marvelously varied in its character that a whole volume would scarcely describe it. Why did it come? Was it to crush us, or to conquer us, or to starve us, or was it to nourish and enrich our country? It is a sober fact that every single time . . . however inconsiderable, all that vast catalogue of commodities came to our shores because some man desired it, paid for it, and meant to turn it to his comfort or profit.”

Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 1904