Ron Paul throws Greenwald, WaPo's hype under a bus

[jakeXT]

13. I think he wasn't in Congress back then, the Democrat who voted for NAFTA in his 14th district

switched parties years later.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1993/h575

Paul also seemed to be on the wrong side of the debate over NAFTA, widely regarded in Texas as a boon to the state economy. "That may be changing," he suggests. "Mexico dumped their cattle on us, and now the U.S. government is giving them $100 million in aid to rebuild their herds." Nonetheless, the cattleman's association sponsored pro-Laughlin mailings.
http://www.ninomiya.org/libertarian/ronpaul_vs_laughlin.html

Rep. Tauzin, one of four representatives who resigned from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, discussed the background of Rep. Greg Laughlin’s (R-TX) switch to the Republican party in return for a seat on the Ways and Means Committee. He also chided the Democratic leadership for discriminating against more conservative Democrats.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/65981-1