Mandate Watch: NAFTA Reform? Psych!

What do you do after a huge number of new swing-district Democrats [1] win office promising to reform NAFTA? Apparently, if you are D.C. Democrats, you do this [2]:

Obama May Delay Nafta Overhaul, in Victory for Caterpillar, GE

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama, who threatened during the presidential campaign to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement unless he could renegotiate it, may delay reworking the accord...

Nafta is a powerful symbol because of its unpopularity. More than half of American voters polled in June by Rasmussen Reports favored renegotiating the agreement...

“We saw more candidates campaigning on fair trade than in anytime in history,” said Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a critic of the Bush administration’s free-trade agenda. “It’s become a national priority.”

Obama joined Hillary Clinton in Ohio earlier this year in holding out the prospect of withdrawing from Nafta unless Canada and Mexico agreed to renegotiate...At a July campaign event, he described the changes he was looking for as “tweaks.”

I forget - is this 2008? Or did I accidentally turn on my flux capacitor and send myself back to 1992? Is this "Change We Can Believe In?" Because it seems like Changeiness.