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.
