"If Not Now, When? If Not You, Who?"

Coach is Right ^ | 6/15/15 | Peggy Ryan

[Oldpuppymax]

Shhh! Listen and you’ll hear the refrains of Obamacare echoing through the halls of Congress. It’s a trade bill instead of healthcare, backed by Republicans as well as Democrats, but at its core the bills are remarkably similar. Like Obamacare, the Trade bill is obscure (113 pages filled with caveats and reservations), it is secret and being hustled through Congress at breakneck speed to avoid scrutiny.

The 2014 election provided a mandate that Congress is choosing to ignore. It’s clear the American people reject the Obama agenda yet McConnell and Boehner are tripping over themselves to pass every bill Obama puts forth. They fought conservatives to fund Obamacare, fund illegal immigration and amnesty, increase the debt ceiling and help Obama obtain everything he wants.

Now its Obama’s fast track trade bill. The Republican leadership pushed hard for this bill and thought they had the votes. But on Friday, June 12th it was the Democrats who voted down the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill. Without that bill, the package can’t go to the President so the trade bill is dead. For now.

I say for now because Obama forces never stop just because they have experienced a loss. Pelosi has already said those brave Democrats who voted against their President can be bought with a highway bill. And the Republican leadership is working overtime to convince rogue members to change their votes. Obama supporters argue in favor of the “good” parts of this bill just as they did with Obamacare. But the ObamaCare fiasco taught us to be terrified of those bad parts we have yet to see.

But whatever the reasons of Obamatrade supporters to pass this bill, they don’t outweigh the reasons to defeat it. And among those reasons are the following:

1) It’s a secret. Didn’t we learn anything...

[marron]

In 2014, the American people voted to stop Obama, to end the Obama agenda, not support it.

Exactly.

It’s a secret. Didn’t we learn anything from Obamacare, from the millions who got pink slips and from the infringements on Constitutional protections that only surfaced once the law passed?

Exactly. People here keep saying, there have been many trade bills, this is just one more. No, this is Obamatrade. There is nothing here that can't wait until he is gone. We've learned from every other bill he has jammed through that there are time-bombs buried all through it, some of which only make sense when combined with similar time bombs buried in other bills. We sent these people to Washington to end his reign, not to facilitate it.

[RitaOK]

That’s what I think.

No one wants to address what you said. No one addresses the simple fact of TIMING, that it is TIMED to be in the hands of this president and not the next, for a period of a year and a half.

What could possibly so urgent about a trade bill, when we have sat by for a year watching now a quarter of a million Christians and others beheaded, children crucified, and banished from IRAQ?

Just where is the parallel between these two items for all the urgency? Hmmmm?

NO SALE.

[arthurus]

We do not have a fully elective legislature any more. We may vote to select which Representatives and Senators we wish whose mandate then is to to enact the Democrat Party’s objectives.

[arthurus]

There is nothing here that can't wait until he is gone

Which is why the Republican Party is anxious to get it passed NOW.

[philman_36]

Got sheep?

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Summary of U.S. Objectives
Specifically, in the TPP we are seeking:
A “yarn forward” rule of origin, which requires that textile and apparel products be made using U.S. or other TPP country yarns and fabrics to qualify for the benefits of the agreement, so as to ensure that non-qualifying textiles and apparel from non-TPP countries do not enjoy the benefits reserved for TPP countries;

Snip...Specifically, in the TPP we are seeking:
Requirements that support a single, global Internet, including ensuring cross-border data flows, consistent with governments’ legitimate interest in regulating for purposes of privacy protection;

We do have the objectives but not the final agreement.