George Will Argues for TPP Because After a Decade We Can Regain Half of the GDP Lost in the First Quarter

Yes folks, it's desperation time for the supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). To get this sucker through they will say anything, because hey, making stuff up for the cause always sells in official Washington.

In his Washington Post column George Will argued for the TPP because we need it to increase growth. He pointed to the 0.7 percent drop in GDP in the first quarter as illustrating the problem. (This decline was of course mostly due to the weather, but whatever.) If we view t...