No, it wasn’t a Catch-22, because nothing about the bill currently before Congress is being done in secret.
Yes, the trade agreement is being negotiated in secret, but when it comes before Congress it will be fully revealed and you will be able to read it “in its entirety” should you choose to do so.
And you’ll never see a one line free trade agreement, but free trade typically benefits all parties to the agreement, so hammering out details is worth the effort.
And, for the record, I don’t trust President Obama as a negotiator either, but any agreement he signs on to has to be approved by Congress. That severely limits his options for going off the reservation.
(Spare me the cynicism...I’ll do it for you....Congress....HAHAHAHA...okay?)
I don’t merely “not trust” Obama as a “negotiator,” because he is a Marxist, Communist, Muslim terrorist. He wants to end the United States.
The bill that will be voted on shortly will hand over authority to Obama to absolutely, definitively throw open—i.e., abolish—the borders. What Obama wants is literal armies of Mexicans and other leeches, and ISIS streaming into the former U.S. and exterminating Americans. White Americans, obviously, need to be exterminated. But I believe that Obama views American blacks as degenerate scum. All the ones Planned Parenthood has missed will be exterminated in short order.
So all the stories about a room in the basement of the Capitol into which nobody can take cell phones, cameras, paper, pens, or pencils, and a bill that nobody is allowed to talk about?--That's all made up? What's your definition of "secret"?