https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUuKvuqrfnc
Regardless of the issue, in general, Obama does NOT NEED any more power TO ABUSE. He will if he gets it.
There is an ENORMOUS difference between Bush and Obama. Obama has proven time after time he hates America and IS DOING all he can possibly do to destroy the U.S. He should be given NO AUTHORITY to even buy toilet paper for the White House without it passing a National Security Scrutiny!
It ay be constitutional, or it may be a legal perversion of the founders intent, but I know one thing.
Obama badly wanted it. Obama has been trying to achieve something in TPP. Anything Obama is trying to achieve, I am against. I have never seen a single thing he has lead to pass that I agree with or is good for America.
That alone is enough reason to stop it at the earliest possible step of the process. Period.
A very interesting and convincing read.
Here is my objection to the CURRENT debate in four paragraphs:
The sitting occupant of the Oval Office is thoroughly and totally untrustworthy. I can imagine him (or, more rightly, the bureaucrats in the State and Commerce Departments) cutting a deal with nations that seem to be economically beneficial. Within those agreements, though, would be poison pills that harm the moral and social framework of our nation—or, perhaps, the other nation.
Then this current narcissist occupant of the Oval Office is joined by a chorus of media amplifiers who INSIST that the trade agreement MUST be approved because “it will lower the unemployment rate by 4 percentage points” or “top economists say it is a great plan” or “it will save the environment” or “it will lower insurance premiums by $2500 a year”!
And, given the weakness of the current Republican party to say NO to Obama, even after two mid-term elections where they were GIVEN THAT MANDATE, then we need not give Valerie’s man child such power.
The executive branch currently concocted has no respect for the separation of powers, and the current legislative branch has no testicular fortitude to reject bad propositions put forward by the executive.
So why pass TPA now?
I am not against TPA per se, but I am against Obama being given any further power to do anything at all.
And I further do not trust this secret legislation garbage associated with TPP.
I do not want any part of a government that operates that way, and I won’t vote for anyone that supports business being done that way.
Oh come on now, Ted Cruz and now the Heritage foundation is for the Trade Promotion Authority ?
They are a bunch of commie globalist sellouts working for Obama I tell ya !
That’s it !
The Heritage Foundation just lost my vote !
Sarcasm Irony.
THE CRUZ HATERS PROPAGANDIST REGURGITATORS HAVE BEEN OFFICALLY PUNKED BY BAGHDAD BOB CUTIS , A DEMOCRAT LIBERAL OPERATIVE !
YOU,VE BEEN PUNKED !
NOW GO CELEBRATE EGG ON FACE DAY CRUZ HATERS REGURGATATORS !
Politico is reporting that the second vote will not happen tomorrow.
I.e. The votes are not there.
In fact, it looks like the DC Elites including RINO’s and fake conservatives
are running for tall grass on Obamatrade.
It bad enough that the RINO’s and fake conservatives voted for Obamatrade once already.
But to have to vote yes again on Obamatrade.
No wonder they are running for tall grass.
The isn’t strictly about TPA. If Boehner and McConnell had a record of acting like an opposition, or if Obama didn’t ignore limits on Executive power, there would have been some grumbling, but this TPA would have passed without huge fanfare.
That said, here’s a more detailed explanation and history of the Constitutional issues in trade agreements:
http://constitution.findlaw.com/article2/annotation12.html
We as citizens have the right to try to convince our representatives to vote Yea or Nay on each trade deal that is negotiated by the president and comes before the congress.
It would be easier for us to make a recommendation if we were dealing with a single country that we felt was trading fairly or not.
I realize that sometimes regional trade pacts seem to make more sense, but it would be difficult or closer to impossible for any citizen to educate himself enough to know what to say to his representatives.
Even with nation-to-nation treaties it appears we got lied to with regard to our recent deal with South Korea. How much more screwed are we going to be by a TPP or TISA which involves over a dozen nations?
As legal as trusts and monopolies. Treaties are like gun control, they only engage those that believe in it
trade Promotion Authority is surely Constitutional. What Hussein will do with Trade Promotion Authority is surely Un, Non, and Anti COnstitutinal.eIf Cruz and the other gopes are intent on this Trade Promotional Authority bil why cannot they wait for a president in a year and a half who will use it to do Constitutional and efficacious things. The fact that they are trying to push it through knowing what sort of things Hussein will do with it and they then have no effective say in what goes down indicates that the gopes are all hunky dory with the emerging dictatorship and totalitarian clampdown.
Go pound salt. This administration hates the USA, it’s like comparing apples to vipers.