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AT: FTA Links To Politics – CP popularKORUS FTA has support of the GOP Leon Hadar, 10 – research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute (July 9, “Washington an unlikely free-trade cheerleader”, http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/sub/views/story/0,4574,394134,00.html), Ironically, one of the reasons that Mr Obama and his aides are hoping to get the FTA with South Korea, and perhaps other trade pacts, approved after November has to do with the expectations that the Democrats could lose seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The more pro-business Republicans could prove to become Mr Obama's most important political allies as he tries to promote new trade initiatives. Indeed, former Democratic President Bill Clinton's success in winning Congressional support for very aggressive global trade liberalisation policies - ratifying North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) and inviting China to join it - was very much tied to the backing that he received from mostly pro-free trade Republican majorities in Congress that were able to counter the opposition from the more protectionist Democrats. Now Mr Obama and his aides are hoping that the growing ranks of Republican lawmakers after November - an electoral outcome achieved thanks to an effective campaign by Tea-Party activists - will strengthen the White House's hands on the global trade front. Farm lobbies support the KORUS FTA Hwang Doo-hyong, 10 – staff writer of Yonhap (7/9, “Farmers’ groups urge Congress to expedite Korea FTA’s ratification”, http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2010/07/09/65/0301000000AEN20100709000500315F.HTML) WASHINGTON, July 8 (Yonhap) -- A group of 42 agricultural and food organizations sent a letter to congressional leaders Thursday to call on them to cooperate with President Obama for the rapid ratification of the pending free trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. In the letter addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several other congressional leaders, the group welcomed Obama's announcement late last month of "his intention to set a November deadline for removing outstanding obstacles to the implementation of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement." Among the groups are the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Feed Industry Association, American Meat Institute, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, U.S. Apple Association, USA Poultry & Egg Export Council and Produce Marketing Association. "This is very welcome news for America's farmers, ranchers, food industry workers and exporters," the letter said. "Our organizations are grateful to the president for his new initiative, and we hope that you will work closely with him to ensure timely action on the implementing legislation." FTA Links To PoliticsObama would get the blame for the CP and it would cause a Democrat backlash The Nation, 10 (July 5, “Obama risks party rift on S Korea trade deal”, http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T9700926057&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T9700926060&cisb=22_T9700926059&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=220765&docNo=2), Washington US President Barack Obama is risking a revolt within his own party as he presses ahead on a free-trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, setting the stage for a showdown after November legislative elections. Organised labour, a critical support base for Obama's Democratic Party, and several Democrats have already vowed to fight the deal which, they say, would hurt workers. "To try and advance the Korean FTA when so many workers are still struggling to find work would simply move our economy backward," said Representative Louise Slaughter, a Democrat who leads the powerful Rules Committee. The deal would be the largest for the United States since the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with Canada and Mexico in 1994. The United States and South Korea completed painstaking negotiations in 2007 but neither nation's legislature has ratified it. Obama himself criticised the deal as a senator. But as president, Obama has found South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to be one of his closest allies and has said he is convinced of the benefits of boosting trade with Asia's fourth largest economy. "It will strengthen our commercial ties and create enormous potential economic benefits and create jobs here in the United States, which is my number one priority," Obama said in Toronto. Obama said he would send the agreement to Congress soon after November – the month of a Group of 20 summit in South Korea as well as congressional elections in which Democrats are seen as vulnerable to losses. Ironically, the rival Republican Party, while opposed to many of Obama's key priorities such as climate and immigration legislation, may offer greater support than Democrats on the South Korea FTA. "Before the midterm elections, he cannot submit this to Congress. It's impossible," said Anthony Kim, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank. Sabina Dewan, associate director of international economic policy at the left-leaning Centre for American Progress, said that any trade deal would be controversial at a time that the wobbly US economy is voters' top concern. But she noted that Obama has set a goal of doubling US exports as a way to fuel growth and that, in a globalised economy, the United States risked being left behind. Obama would get blame- he’s pushing it Kurlantzick, 7/12 [Joshua, fellow for southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, 2010, Newsweek How Obama Lost His Asian Friends, lexis] Obama tried to deliver some concrete results as well to demonstrate his focus on Asia. After a year of suggesting the administration might just scuttle the U.S.-South Korea free-trade deal signed during the Bush administration, in late June Obama announced that the White House would push for its ratification, which would create the most important American trade deal since the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed early in the Clinton administration. Obama also set a specific timetable, calling for the Korea deal to be completed by November. 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