Truly, election season has arrived:
Many of the ideas being promoted by Democrats to stop the slide are hardly new. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) called the strategy “more meaningless than harmful” after voting for one Democratic proposal, a resolution to encourage packers of domestic fruits and vegetables to display the American flag on their labels. Another measure, which last week won final congressional approval and is awaiting Obama’s signature, would extend an array of existing tariff adjustments that benefit U.S. manufacturers. Previously known as the “Miscellaneous Tariff Bill,” Democrats rechristened it the “U.S. Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010.”
That’s American ingenuity for you.