MoronsTraitors
The only reason for secrecy is THEY KNOW that We The People will not approve of it.
Posted on 05/13/2015 7:29:04 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Senate Democrats reached a deal with Republicans Wednesday to move forward on U.S. President Barack Obama’s fast-track trade agenda, one day after pro-trade Senators stalled the bill by blocking debate, according to Politico and Roll Call. In exchange for their support on a vote for the fast-track trade authority, Democrats will get separate votes on two related bills on currency manipulation and duty-free status to U.S. imports of goods from certain sub-Saharan African countries.
“We have to take some of these votes separately or we kill the underlying legislation,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., according to Politico. “It’s reasonable and I look forward to our colleagues from across the aisle joining with us.”
McConnell worked with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on the deal, which Reid called “fair,” according to Roll Call. The negotiations are seen as a victory for Obama, whose trade agenda was stalled on Tuesday after debate on a vote to give him fast-track authority was blocked by Democrats. The Trade Promotion Authority bill would give Obama greater freedoms in negotiation trade agreements with other countries since Congress would have limited debate and no ability to amend the terms of the pacts. That legislation is seen as key to approving the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal between the U.S. and 10 other countries in North America, South America and Asia.
The trade issue is one of the rare areas where Obama and Republicans are on board. McConnell was the only Senate GOP member to vote against the president when the bill came up for debate Tuesday, according to the New York Times.
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You can only see the holy document by special arrangement, in the cellar, you can not take notes, you can not speak of it to anyone.
Let’s “fast track it” - i.e. no debate, no amendments.
Do these idiots even see how they’re being demeaned? But they can’t wait to supplicate themselves before Obama.
The Uniparty MUST be destroyed.
Kabuki theater, act 2.
Republicans are selling us down the river folks.
Mail order bride scam. She can have property in the US but forget uS tax payer ability to hide assets over there buying up land.
The GOP is the most deceitful party in history
and has destroyed America for their Obama.
That they backstab their own voters and sic the IRS on them
will NEVER be forgotten.
I do not even know how this is constitutional representative government. But, as Justinia Roberta said, it is just a tax.
““These folks have been proven wrong time after time after time,” Sanders said in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday. “The TPP would force American workers to compete against desperate workers in Vietnam who make 56 cents an hour. We have got to do better than that.”
geez, my world is upside down. I’m agreeing with Sanders.
MoronsTraitors
The only reason for secrecy is THEY KNOW that We The People will not approve of it.
read this link and Chuckie Shummer glee about Fast track treaties !
Soros write a book on Globalization using Fastvtrack treaties to circumvent the US treaty laws folks.
Cruz that fraud along with Sessions and Paul and Lee are selling us to Soros fir there Billionaire pals and K street pals.
Cruz phony press release about an amending it !
The Fast track crap shot out by Orin Hatch prohibits any amendments !
Who was Cruz trying to fool here ?
It’s about immigration, or by-passing current immigration law. Why else would Barry want to keep it secret.
Same playbook as FCC net neutrality.
Congress should say there will be no vote until the agreement is public. (but they won’t)
I will work against ANY pubbie that votes for this. No more power for the dictator in chief!
Soros and his evil pals plotted away again. They need Obama term to be finishing up and midterms to be done and the entire GOP Senate bought off !
I mean every single one is owned by K street .
Soros wrote a book about using Fast track treaties to push globalization thru the halls of Congress and circumventing our laws !Feel free to read that evil masterpiece.
CORRECT!!
All hail the ruling elite!
It’s outrageous the bill (TPP) is a secret document. Shades of Congress offered very little time to read the 1600 page Patriot Act in 2001. Very few in Congress could read it, even if they wished to, because of the anthracs scare. How convenient. And look at the damage to the Constitution and We the People caused by that horrid piece of legislation.
Now, under Obama, secrecy is blatant and demanded with no excuse given. Lyin’ Barrry Obama is the most secretive president in history.
This speech from April 27, 1961, gives JFK’s thoughts on secrecy. Unlike Obama, JFK was not a cardboard cutout or a treacherous foreign agent of unknown origin.
Speech given by President John F. Kennedy
Topic: The President and the Press
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York, NY
April 27, 1961
“Ladies and gentlemen. The very word secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society. And we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago, that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which are cited to justify it.
Even today, there is little value in opposing the thread of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in assuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it’s in my control. And no official of my administration whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold from the press or the public the facts they deserve to know.
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.
It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. It’s mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding, and from that understanding comes support or opposition, and both are necessary.
I’m not asking your newspapers to support an administration. But I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers, I welcome it. This administration intends to be candid about its errors. For as a wise man once said, an error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors. And we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed, and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker, Solon, decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
That is why our press was protected by the First Amendment, the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution, not primarily to amuse and to entertain, not to emphasis the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply give the public what it wants, but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crisis and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
This means greater coverage and analysis of international news, for it is no longer far away and foreign, but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improve the understanding of the news as well as improve transmission. And it means finally that government at all levels must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security.
And so it is to the printing press, to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.”
Is there a list of the republicans that are selling USA workers down the river?
I want to make sure I never vote for one of them. That means all of them.
Okay Mitch, so tell me the reasons why we shouldn’t kill the bill?
Mitch is simply fu@king traitor scum. New World Order shill. Globalist lackey.
It’d be shorter to read the list that aren’t sellig us down the river.
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