Posted on 06/19/2015 6:37:41 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA, better known as Fast Track) giving President Obama what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) admitted is “an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president.”
Following a week of high-pressure arm-twisting by President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the House passed the increasingly unpopular TPA bill by a vote of 218-208, with 28 Democrats jumping on the mostly-Republican pseudo “free trade” bandwagon.
This was the second time in less than a week that the House voted to approve the TPA bill that would give the president authority to rush his ObamaTrade trifecta of secret treaties — Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) — through Congress without the required checks and balances. On Friday, June 12, with a very similar bi-partisan coalition, the House voted 219-211 in favor of fast-track. However, on June 12, the House GOP leadership separated the TPA bill from another measure known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) that provides aid to those whose jobs are killed by trade. The latter was defeated.
Since the Senate had passed the TPA with the TAA attached, the House needed to pass both the TPA and TAA. House Democrats have historically favored TAA, but they joined with “rebel” Republicans on June 12 to vote down TAA in an attempt to kill Fast Track. Boehner and the GOP House leadership began taking immediate retribution against those Republican House members who had dared to cross Team Obama-Boehner by opposing the TPA and the secrecy that has exemplified the entire TPP/TTIP/TISA process.
Now the House version of the TPA must go back to the Senate, and President Obama and his Republican allies must convince enough Democrats to support a stand-alone TPA, with the promise that they will offer a TAA bill once TPA is passed. The political logrolling will now intensify, as Team Obama-McConnell turn up the heat to gain the votes they need. Undoubtedly, a lot of money will also exchange hands. As The New American reported the corporatist elites pushing the TPP/TTIP/TISA schemes, in essence, bought their Senate TPA votes with campaign donations, and most assuredly will duplicate those bribes, if needed, for a second TPA vote. A review of House campaign finance records will very likely show a similar pattern of bribery for the TPA votes.
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I have zero faith that any of them have America’s best interest in mind.
But...but...America has just been recently assured by many prominent Republicans that passing TPA would not give him any more power.
So who is lying now?
That’s the perplexing question, here, as well.
See reply 3.
Who needs Harry Reid when you’ve got McConnell doing the Obama’s dirty work?
GOP Leaders Set to Enable “ObamaTrade” With Fast Track for President 19 January 2015
Many Republican defenders of TPA are insisting that Fast Track is no big thing to make a fuss over, and that in no way should it be considered a transfer of power to Obama. However, in a January 6 press conference, the Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, committed the sin of candor and acknowledged what all sensible observers already knew to be the fact: that TPA is “an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president.”
"Yeah, we're in active discussion on TPA, trade promotion authority,” McConnell told reporters. “It's an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president, but that's how much we believe in trade as an important part of America's economy.”
In January?!
See 3 and 7.
We’re in deep $hit, America. I weep for my kids.
Trade promotion authority or fast track gives up the 66% Senate approval the Constitution requires to pass a trade bill. That is thrown away for a simple 51% up or down vote in Congress, no debate and no amendments. It also gives up amendments . What this equals is a an Obama dictatorship as treaties override U.S. laws.It makes these bills unstoppable as no amendments are now allowed and only 51% to pass .
so fast track = obama rewriting U.S. immigration laws, gun laws etc. = the end of America
so fast track = obama rewriting U.S. immigration laws, gun laws etc. = the end of America
Who is lying now? Anyone who supports this Obamatrade lying or is mad as it will destroy a free country, the greatest civilization America.
Screw the GOP =E
Freegards
LEX
With justice and if this nations is to survive, the answer is, "No."
A ping to all of you as well. See 3 and 7.
1985: Ronald Reagan articulated the goal of Western Hemisphere free trade
Reagan’s belief in the twin policies of deregulation and free market trade reinvigorated the American economy in the 1980s. Under Reagan’s leadership, we initiated a series of measures to ensure increased opportunities to sell American-made goods and services overseas, believing that exports equal jobs for Americans.
It was Reagan who first articulated a goal of free trade in the Western Hemisphere. America’s first free trade agreement with Israel, implemented in 1985, was a Reagan achievement. A US-Canada agreement followed. In 1986, Reagan launched the Uruguay Round, a series of talks aimed at the reduction of trade barriers among more than 60 nations. NAFTA, providing substantial trade benefits to US firms seeking to conduct business in Mexico and Canada—our best customers—was another initiative of the Reagan-Bush years.
Reagan’s faith in free trade principles was vindicated abroad by the crumbling of state-controlled, centrally directed communist economies.
Source: Agenda For America, by Haley Barbour, p.177-178 , Apr 25, 1996
With Ted Cruz and the rest of the so called leaders for it, who is left to save America??????
Palin
from post #7:
“We’re in active discussion on TPA,” said McConnell, adding, “It’s an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president, but that’s how much we believe in trade as an important part of America’s economy.”
Huffingtonpost.com 1/07/2015
It will be interesting to see how the Cruz supporters will snake around this one, but I predict they will.
Obama is not quite as trustworthy, as patriotic, as Reagan, don’t you think?
It's from...http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/21099-will-team-obama-boehner-mcconnell-get-tpa-through-congress...not Huffingtonpost.com.
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