Posted on 04/22/2015 7:11:45 PM PDT by Theoria
A full-fledged Democratic trade war has broken out.
"I love Elizabeth. We're allies on a whole host of issues, but she's wrong on this," President Obama said Tuesday night in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, referring to liberal Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Warren and the progressive left, scarred by trade deals past like the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, have launched a vocal fight against granting the president so-called "fast-track" authority to negotiate a 12-country Pacific trade deal.
"Are you ready to fight?" Warren said at a rally April 15 with labor leaders and Vermont liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders standing beside her. "No more secret deals. No more special deals for multi-national corporations. Are you ready to fight? Are you ready to fight any more deals that say we're going to help the rich get richer and leave everyone else behind? Are you ready to fight that?"
Senate Democrats' point man, Harry Reid – normally a staunch Obama ally — has joined the "Hell no" caucus on trade.
"I have never, ever ... supported a trade agreement, and I'm not going to start now," Reid said Tuesday. "So the answer is not only no, but hell no."
Obama says progressives have it all wrong. He said "understandably" that some in labor and on the left would be "suspicious" because of past problems with NAFTA.
"But my point is," Obama said on MSNBC, "don't fight the last war. Wait and see what we actually have in this deal before you make those judgments."
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That bitch is a communist. She is a total enemy of our country.
Zero vs. Squaw Spreading Bull. Whom to root for ?
Hey, her "ancestors" traded Manhattan Island for a handful of beads and trinkets.
Wow! Talk about having to read about an argument between an animated pile of dog excrement and a decaying pile of cat excrement...
One Doofus talking down to another Doofus.
*** DUELING COMMUNISTS ***
TPP ends sovereignty.
Perfect!
Nice to see the “progressive Left” in a duel with itself, and humorous to see them using Alinsky as their choice of weapon.
Obama vs Warren
Hillary vs Warren
Warren vs Obama\Hillary
O’Malley vs Hillary
And then comes the Newsweek story tonight on Kelly File that’s been buried for four days. Hillary can’t catch a break.
More leftist staged tactics designed to snooker white blue-collar and middle-class voters that Democrats have bled profusely from since Obama was immaculated.
Is this the same trade deal that calls for unlimited immigration for “workers”?
probably.
yes the one that Republicans support lock stock and barrel.
It’s the end of sovereignty for the US.
>> “but she’s wrong on this,” President Obama said
Reality momentarily influencing of his tongue. Or, it’s a trap!
She’s messing with Obama’s kickback.
Some people here agree with the far-left on protectionism.
But she’s right on these secret trade deals where Congress abdicates its congressional responsibilities.
Yep—the deal is a horror.
I didn’t think I agreed politically with Elizabeth Warren on anything!
Sure Harry... you've been the Democrat leader in the Senate for how long? If you 'opposed' these trade deals then why did they pass? Hmmm? We all know that the positions of Senate Majority (& sometimes Minority) leader are ideally suited to gumming up the works.
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