John Thune: “Is Trade Promotion Authority important to the administration's stated goal of doubling exports over the next 5 years?”

It's an economic frustration.

The only conclusion one can draw is that the Democrats have concluded that it is good politics for them not to allow the Republicans to ‘get a victory’ or the president to ‘get a victory’ in the middle of a political season.

It's a pretty simple measure, but an important way to ensure that members of Congress are held to the standards that America should be able to expect of their representatives.

Well, I think people are, there's voter fatigue with high gas prices and high diesel prices in my part of the world.