Ya'know...anytime Pelosi votes against Obama raises a large 
Posted on 06/12/2015 11:41:39 AM PDT by HomerBohn
See Trumka’s statement to the President?
“I would ask that you not mischaracterize our positions and views, even in the heat of legislative battle ... You have repeatedly isolated and marginalized labor and unions.”
Seems labor and the unions don’t like being the ones on the receiving end of Obama’s m.o. Looking forward to seeing Trumka and his buddies being labeled racists for opposing this.
‘HUMILIATING BLOW’?
I bet Bill Clinton is jealous
Though it could be wished that more conservatives would primary in a positive sense, i.e. they got someone they like, they will get off their sofas en masse to vote that person onto the ballot rather than just griping and moaning. Why does it take something they hate to get that kind of activity?
The picture of dealing “a blow” to Clown Prince nobama seems so “sinclairesque”.
For Bill, there’s no such thing as a “humiliatin’ blow”
Oh man, he’s actually WHINING. That’s what whipped bullies do.
And it’s HIS PET PARTY that sold him out.
And it was the rivals who were coming to try to soften the blow....
Might as well cause when he opens his mouth and speaks English he commits voter suicide.
“America that once knew it was a 500 lb. gorilla, now acting like a 5 lb. monkey desperate for attention.”
You realize, given what we have in the White Hut masquerading as our president, what you’ve said can be considered racist! In addition, legitimate monkeys are going to be upset as well.
I’m confused. if the trade agreement was to create more jobs, then who would be displaced by trade?
I have to confess that I have not been closely following this debate. Has somebody (reliable) distilled the issue down to an understandable essay/column?
He’s mine, too. I called his office this morning & thanked him for the ‘no’ vote yesterday & said keep on voting ‘no’. I don’t know about you, but I am still feeling excited about the dethroning of Cantor .... makes me smile every time I think about it. So far, no regrets about Brat. I’ve noticed he’s getting more of a “voice”, too (more interviews, people taking seriously what he’s saying & liking his economics degree).
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 363
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 228 | 17 | 1 | |
| Democratic | 12 | 173 | 3 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 240 | 190 | 4 |
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 362
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 191 | 54 | 1 | |
| Democratic | 28 | 157 | 3 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 219 | 211 | 4 |
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 361
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 86 | 158 | 2 | |
| Democratic | 40 | 144 | 4 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 126 | 302 | 6 |
Ya'know...anytime Pelosi votes against Obama raises a large
Basically, they passed fast track, but without the assistance package for displaced workers so the whole thing has to be voted on in the Senate again. Or they sweeten the deal and bring that back up in the House. The second one is my hunch.
No, opposition is getting stronger.
I need to watch out for getting hit by lightening for saying this but ... well done Dims!
Unlikely. The Senate doesn’t want to deal with it again.
Agreed!
Many posters seem to think that Obama was somehow victorious, that he conspired with Nancy Pelosi to get this result etc. Conspiracy theories of this sort are utter rubbish. I believe that Obama is not motivated as we will be told by the mainstream media by a need to burnish his legacy, although that no doubt would be gratifying to him, rather he is motivated by an extreme leftist ideology, an ideology which drives him to accomplish all of the goals of the far left which include destroying American sovereignty and substituting a one world socialist utopian government. The trade bill Obama is presently negotiating is as perfect a vehicle as Obamacare and environmental issues to accomplish that purpose.
So the trade agreement that was to be pushed through on fast-track contains hidden traps and snares for the unwary, the gullible and, in the case of Republicans, the greedy which will serve to parallel Obama's domestic rule and ruin strategy. Just as he has used executive orders to dodge the Constitution and the powers allocated under it to the other branches, just as he uses the bureaucracy to rule by decree, Obama wants a trade agreement to shove aside the Constitution and ultimately to destroy American sovereignty.
The Democrats who oppose this bill did not do so because they have been rebuffed by Obama and are miffed, rather they did this because they are shearing away from Obama and toward the siren of Elizabeth Warren and her populist movement. The House Democrats are thinking about the next election, not about Obama's legacy. They are very much in thrall with the populist aspects of Elizabeth Warren's message and they know this bill is repugnant to that message.
The Republicans are proving once again to be the stupid party. They should understand the power this message has with Rank-And-File Democrats in the House and they ought to question whether that power extends to the general electorate. I think it does. Donald Trump thinks it does but the rest of the Republican candidates, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker regrettably among them, apparently do not. Besides, the Republicans might latch on to an idea simply because it is right.
This is a pivotal issue for the election and the fact that this trade bill crashed on the issue should be instructive to Republicans. The issue is the reform of government policies which are hollowing out America, which have cost us our first place as the world's leading economy, and which now have extended to the extent that they are actually seriously undermining our national and therefore our personal safety and that of our children. To reform misguided government policies is a purely conservative undertaking and we ought not to be misled by characterizations that such reforms are not conservative because they echo Democrat talking points. They do not.
The Democrats will not use our labels, they will tell us they are seeking to cure income inequality but the Republicans must tell the world that inequality is caused by Democrat policies. These trade agreements, no less than unchecked rogue immigration and runaway regulations, are to blame for our present malaise afflicting the middle-class.
Wake up Republicans, seize the issue, win the election, and recover the erstwhile Reagan Democrats for a generation.
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