[Lakeshark]

I don’t understand why some here are supporting this TPP stuff, do you have any ideas?

[xzins]

There are multiple reasons: one of the most significant, as I’ve seen it, is that Cruz is supporting this. There is a type of person who, when choosing a candidate, thinks they’re choosing a messiah.

There is only one Messiah, so idolizing a politician is risky business, indeed.

If their ‘messiah’ is supporting it, it is against their very soul not to fight to explain away anything negative he actually does, so that their hopes in that person do not die.

[P-Marlowe]

I don’t understand why some here are supporting this TPP stuff, do you have any ideas?

Because Ted Cruz supported it.

[Servant of the Cross]

YOU'LL READ OBAMATRADE AFTER WE PASS IT!

Holy Shiite Batman! This is what completely confuses me. Even right-leaning Pubbies are sounding like Nancy Pelosi!

There has to be something good in this TPP stuff or you wouldn't have some of the very clear conservatives expressing some interest in its passage. But why does it need to be so secretive? My personal speculation is that there are provisions that the Left doesn't want their base to see.

Bottom line, it doesn't matter what the bill says, 0bama will just use executive order to make it mean whatever he wants it to and Congress won't call him on it. Say "NO" to any TPP while 0bama is in office ... imho.

[Erik Latranyi]

I don’t understand why some here are supporting this TPP stuff, do you have any ideas?

I support free trade. I do not support secret trade deals with congress giving up its authority to amend such deals and eliminating the need for a super majority.

I do not agree with Fast Track Authority. Passing inter-nation deals should be difficult and should require a very high bar of approval.

Fast Track is just a lazy person's way of saying "the constitutional way of doing things is too hard.:

[C. Edmund Wright]

maybe because the most radical of union thugs, Bernie Sanders, and Liz Warren oppose it?

As for me, I am withholding judgment, though I am extremely skeptical. There are the worst of the worst on both sides of the issue......

[firebrand]

There may be enough “good stuff” in it to ruin the careers of our “representatives” if they vote against it. Similar to defense bills, where despicable amendments are attached but no one dares vote against it because their political enemies will simplify their vote as being “against defense.”

The amendments that we and our “representatives” would suggest if they could are already outlawed by fast track.