Can you say “hypocrite”? The same people who whine about their patriotism being questioned when they’re fighting for rights for terrorists and their sympathizers, are going to determine which companies are patriotic and which aren’t? Uh…

I’ve talked to Barack a lot about his Patriot Corporation Act, which is not trade per se, but it’s certainly part of the economic package around globalization. The Patriot Corporation Act has not gotten the attention that I would hope it would. But, basically it says that if you play by the rules, if you pay decent wages, health benefits, pension; do your production here; don’t resist unionization on neutral card check, then you will be designated a “Patriot Corporation” and you will get tax advantages and some [preference] on government contracts.

That’s Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). As the quote mentions, Brown is working with Obama on the legislation. Bryan writes:

Setting that aside, by defining some corporations as patriotic, you’re necessarily defining others as unpatriotic, and based on economic decisions they’re making and often being forced into making by the tax and legal environment that’s forced on them by the idiots in Washington.

What gives people like Obama and Brown the idea that they have the right to do this? Certainly not the Constitution.

The only thing Liberal politicians love more than taxes, is big government. They don’t mind determining (by law) which Americans companies are their definition of “patriotic”, but they’ll whine like a baby if you dare question their efforts to help terror suspects at Gitmo.