It’s a full-time job–actually, five full-time jobs–to keep track of how the economic elites screw working people. Just when everyone is excited–rightly so–about the demonstrations breaking out all over the country, in the back door slides more horror:

Congress prepared Wednesday to pass free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, showing unusual bipartisan resolve to put an end to more than four years of heated debate over the direction of U.S. trade policy.

The House and Senate were holding overlapping debate on the three pacts, with plans for quick sequential votes in the late afternoon and evening. Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate predicted all of the pacts would clear Congress.

   Almost makes me think for a second: those people trying to pass these awful deals must be smiling since the trade deals have gotten almost no attention while people clamor for change.