It is 1) a “secret” treaty that Obama wanted nobody to look at, and 2) all about outsourcing even more jobs to Asia.
good questions.
4. Why are the details of the agreement secret?
Interested also BTTT.
It is also rumored that it includes UN style Gun and ammunition control.
Democrats are more principled than Republicans — at leas the ones in the Senate now. They have wrong principles but they stick by them. Republicans I hate to think but...seem like they are for sale to the highest bidder. Or they have been blackmailed. Something is very wrong with them.
It is possible that the democrat defection is just drama to trick republicans into speaking out for something that will end up biting them in the behind. Are democrats that sneaky? I think so.
Overall it is crazy to trust Obama on this. Look where his passions lie. It can be nothing but bad. Why the secrecy?
It wasn’t far enough to the left for the democrats.
But republicans showed their true colors by supporting it.
They should have voted 100% against it.
In six months republicans have killed all the momentum that voters displayed during the last election.
Democrats don’t have to work hard to damage republicans in the senate - they just stand back and let the republicans self destruct.
A rapist usually blindfolds his victim.
Anytime the GOP vote with Obama it seems they are falling for a “rope a dope” strategy. I remember the original Sequester budget cuts were designed to get Republicans to approve yet another massive spending bill. They now get blamed for those “heartless budget cuts.” This latest debacle will not end well.
Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States. Japan knows Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States and understands the implications of an ineligible President assuming the Office of the President of the United States.
Japan must assume responsibility for defending itself militarily. America, as a constitutional republic, is being transformed. Obama is graciously offering to sell the military equipment Japan needs to defend itself. Since Obama is ineligible, any international agreements signed by Obama are subject to a challenge. If the challenge is successful, the agreement will be voided. Japan could spend billions on military equipment with no support or spare parts.
Japan is between a rock and a hard place. Japan needs the United States military hardware and will have to pay dearly for it. They could get stuck will obsolete equipment without future support if Obama’s ineligibility is exposed and his agreements are voided.
We don’t really know what’s in it, but everything I’ve heard is bad.
What’s really disconcerting is the Democrats in R jerseys are working harder for Obama on this than the real Democrats.
I have only read a summary of the Treaty, so I can't confirm that.
But, like the poster Piranha, my first thought was, “Why would Obama suddenly want an Asian free trade agreement?”
1. It outsources jobs to Asia and as part of the deal, it might include amnesty. Unfortunately the rot is so severe that essentially any bill that can be used will be used to push through amnesty.
2. It was a show vote, purely for propaganda. Both factions want a PFTA. The more it screws the middle class, the better. Wait a week or two and a “compromise” will be found.
3. You’re operating from a mistaken premise that there is even one scintilla of difference between the two factions. They both want the same thing: power and control. If they can further open the borders and destroy the existing middle class in the process, then all the better from their perspective.
The Deenocrats want $$ for they’re votes. Republicans want MORE $$ for theirs.
yes it’s all about money for them think kick backs nothing in D.C. moves unless it’s tide to money or power.
Perhaps because, from a geostrategic perspective, this trade agreement would bring the covered nations of southeast Asia into closer ties with the American sphere of influence, and away from the would-be hegemon, the increasingly aggressive China.
The Democrats hate this treaty, because organized Labor hates this treaty.
Just some thoughts....
Important point: the agreement has not failed. The vote was whether to put in on the so-called fast track.
Republicans support free trade, most democrats oppose it cause their union masters tell them to. This is not a secret, I’m surprised so many people here seem to not be aware of this.