Senate Narrowly Advances President Obama's Trade Bill: Here???s Why It Was So Close

abcnews.go.com ^ | 5/22/2015 | ARLETTE SAENZ

[rktman]

The Senate narrowly advanced a bill that would give President Obama the ???fast-track??? authority to negotiate trade deals with foreign partners. Sixty votes were needed to move forward with the measure, and the Senate voted 62 to 38 in favor of invoking cloture -- setting up a vote on final passage for this week before the Senate leaves for Memorial Day recess.

[rktman]

Holy Cow! Never saw this one coming. Oh, wait. Yes I did. How about a show of hands by those that thought we (s)elected folks that would represent us in d.c. Crickets? Besides, we already know the lyin' king "Don't need no steenkin' congress."

[Erik Latranyi]

I would like an explanation why Ted Cruz voted to give this authority to Obama when the details are still secret?

[Vendome]

Devil Worshiping, Satanic Inspired, Kommies...

[Logical me]

America has been and still is F-——. This Country will never recover King Obama’s second term much less the first.

Miss Romney yet? Keep voting in shi! and shi! is all we will get. Most of us hoped in 2012 King Obama would be stopped.

[Mariner]

"I would like an explanation why Ted Cruz voted to give this authority to Obama when the details are still secret?"

You will not get an honest explanation.

You'll get GOP platitudes about "free trade" being good for everyone.

Which is true, in the alternative universe where free trade actually exists.

But we live in the real world, this world, where "free trade" means "rape America".

[Fido969]

Holdouts just got fatter payoffs.

[freedomfiter2]

Romney would have been almost as bad and there would have been no GOP opposition with 5 more years to go.

[bonehead4freedom]

Voting Republican means voting to implement the Democratic agenda they just get in on the cash too. The Republican party as a vehicle to implement conservatism is dead.

[rktman]

Better yet, why even bother to vote. The lyin’ king could/would simply write an executive memo and do what he likes anyway. By doing a memo, he can’t be accused of writing too many executive orders. WTH?

[Vaduz]

Wonder if all found out what stocks will be hot?.

[kenmcg]

WE no longer have two major political parties, now we only have one....THE PUBRATS.

[DoughtyOne]

Narrowly...

What a bunch of horse stuff.

He gets what he wanted.

Any midair collision that doesn’t happen by a margin that doesn’t cause dameage, even if by inches, is still two aircraft perfectly safe.

Sadly, this is one that didn’t miss. This will wind up a crash and burn for us.