Posted on 05/22/2015 6:53:25 PM PDT by Beave Meister
President Obama won a big victory for his trade agenda Friday with the Senate’s approval of fast-track legislation that could make it easier for him to complete a wide-ranging trade deal that would include 11 Pacific Rim nations.
A coalition of nearly 50 Senate Republicans and more than 10 Democrats voted for Trade Promotion Authority late Friday, sending the legislation to the House for a difficult fight as Obama faces more entrenched opposition from Democrats.
The Senate coalition fought off several attempts by opponents to undermine the legislation, defeating amendments that were politically popular but potentially poisonous to Obama’s bid to secure the trade deal.
“This is an important bill, likely the most important bill we will pass this year. It’s important to President Obama,” Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and primary author of the bill, said at the close of debate.
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>Everyone, go to Ted’s Facebook page and ask him directly why he voted for this bill. Allow him to tell us why he did so. Do your research and get the facts first.<
Yeah you go ahead. I’m sick of hearing the pretzel - twisting excuses coming from the traitors of our Constitution, regardless of “party affiliation.”
Frankly, I am ashamed of my support for Ted Cruz right now. The vote to support Obama was revolting and nauseating. Bob
Not necessarily a Cruz supporter. Have known about his weak positions on legal and illegal immigration from the first. Mostly waiting to see how the candidates with a chance to win will address these issues once the debates start and more people are paying attention.
Once again our “elected representatives” have voted on a bill they have not seen or read because it is classified, so they now have an excuse.
Bill will reportedly give to China any remaining US military secrets and advance them some 30 years technically.
China is not a part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The nations included are Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, United States, Australia, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
Except for situations such as shoot - don’t shoot and how I want my eggs cooked, I have a 3 day rule.
In my view, there are no horses to change to. Once you get off this horse, you’re walking.
For me, this entire race is no longer about politics or differences of opinions, it’s about the survival of our way of life, the survival of our country and our Liberty - our Freedoms..... and very lives.
So, you are welcome to walk. I say again, I am disappointed, but I remain committed to the only horse worth riding, Ted Cruz.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~
I know the GOPe is not conservative, but this is too much, and I would think even for them, but I guess not. Evidently the new GOP cares nothing for the core Americans who once made up this once great country. Now they want to displace the very people who made this country great with rag tag turbin heads from the Middle East and illegals from south of the border.
I'm to the point where I wish I could buy a one way ticket out of the USA, but where would I go? There's no place left on Earth for decent law abiding people to go where an over-burdensome government doesn't exist.
Uh, no.
Did Vitter vote for it as well?
Which leads to an interesting question: how much more do you think I should pay for a Chevy truck in order to keep some other guy working? As opposed to myself.
The worst part is that this will be used to help Dems in 2016 (when they should be so vulnerable); those votes will be used to convince undecided voters that Repubs work for foreign businesses (and they deserve that characterization). If this trade bill is so bad, are the Dems opposed to it actually better than the Repubs supporting it?
Every pro-amnesty house Republican like Denham, Coffman, Balart-Diaz will vote for this TPP.
Obama is being selfish. He is a failed President, now he wants to pass anything, even bad legislation, to pretend he has a legacy.
But as it hands Obama more power the answer should have not only been 'no' but "HELL NO!!". Who in their right minds would do that?
This is just another feather to stuff in the illegal Kenyan bastard's royal crown and another boot to stuff up the backsides of real Americans.
But then, "real Americans" didn't get to vote - only the Washington Elites and their fat cat donors did. "Real Americans" can go pound sand, eat sh!t, and die.
Apparently Karl Marx had something there with that concept of "the dictatorship of the proletariat". Welcome to Proletown.
You're asking the wrong question.
The questions should be: Should the US worker have to compete with a Mexican worker who:
Gets paid $6/hr, has no mandatory...and in most cases no optional contributions for medical care
Welfare Queens, Social Security, Disability etc.
One whose employer has little or no costs associated with environmental stewardship While the US government mandates those protections on US industry?
No thinking person could support that.
Your glib response identifies you as a GOP do-or-die kinda guy. Perhaps just a Cruz sycophant.
“I’m to the point where I wish I could buy a one way ticket out of the USA, but where would I go? There’s no place left on Earth for decent law abiding people to go where an over-burdensome government doesn’t exist.”
That assumption is not true. There are places. You just have to tune in to what is happening.
Not the wrong question at all, genius. How much more should I pay? Answer it.
I think you don't understand that I, nor anyone else, gives a sh!t how much more you pay.
You'll buy what you can afford. If you can't afford a new truck, tough sh!t.
Find another means of funding yourself.
In other words, you want me to pay higher taxes based on your ideology. Stuff it. And stuff that.
unfortunately.
Name one
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