Viva free trade!

The worst thing the United States could do right now is send a signal to the world that it is an unreliable partner or that it really doesn’t believe in free trade. Perhaps more than anything, the anti-trade tariffs approved during the Hoover administration led to the Great Depression.
So Congress needs to pass the Colombia free-trade agreement, and it needs to do so before giving way to the new administration in January.
You would expect me to say this, but how about the liberal New York Times editorial page? Here is their editorial today on the subject.
Clearly, this is something about which conservatives and liberals ought to agree. Holding up this agreement does no good. In fact, it does a lot of harm.