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Malkin: Why America Hates the GOP-Obamatrade Deal
Creators Syndicate ^ | June 12, 2015 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 06/11/2015 5:08:44 PM PDT by jazusamo

Constitutional conservatives don't like it. Trade unions abhor it. Obama critics hate it. Environmentalists despise it.

Outside the Beltway bubble, a broad coalition of voters from the left, right and center opposes the mega-trade deal getting rammed through Congress this week by the Republican establishment on behalf of the White House. Here's why.

The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out American sovereignty. Their so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission will have sweeping authority over trade, immigration, environmental, labor and commerce regulations.

As alert watchdogs U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest and U.S. Rep Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., warn: "By adopting fast-track, Congress would be formally authorizing the President to finalize the creation of this Pacific Union and will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have agreed to give up its treaty powers. ... In effect, one of the most sweeping international agreements seen in years will be given less legislative scrutiny and process than a Post Office reform bill."

The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out legislative transparency. Boehner smugly asserts that so-called Trade Promotion Authority puts Congress in charge and promotes "more openness" on trade talks. Nonsense. Under the Boehner/Obama plan, Congress gives up its ability to amend any trade deals under fast track, severely limits the ability to debate and lowers the vote threshold in the Senate from 61 to 51. The 11 international parties negotiating with Obama on TPP refuse to sign their dotted lines until Congress agrees to pre-agree to behemoth global trade pacts — sight unseen.

(Excerpt) Read more at creators.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; boehner; gop; mcconnell; michellemalkin; obama; obamatrade; tpp
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To: Impy
Tariffs would off set income taxes. You're just a income tax loving commie at heart face it Comrade. Your red diapers are showing.

What is radical is what we are doing -no tariffs. Free traitors are like the guy helping the rapist, holding the victims wrists and telling them to just lay back and enjoy it.

61 posted on 06/12/2015 8:31:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Impy

“I believe having a special tax on foreign made products makes those products more expensive.”

Import tariffs protect American industry. The United States became the premier economy in the world because of tariffs. The Constitution, when written, specified that tariffs would support the government. If you don’t have a job and no money, it doesn’t matter how cheap something is. As the guy on the Remington commercials once said, the way things are moving with American manufacturing leaving the country, all that will be left is for us to start selling insurance policies to each other.


62 posted on 06/12/2015 8:37:50 AM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg
Free Traitors are members of a religious cult with fixed core beliefs which override any patriotic or pro American economic reasoning other than the bottom line. They do not view the USA like a patriot, but view the USA as an economic zone. Corporations are like NGO's and have no specific allegiance to anything unless it promotes a type of fascism to restrict any attempt to reign in their power. The middle class is their enemy.

The one thing that really gets me is that they think anyone that hates income taxes and promotes tariffs must be pro union. Well the factories we are shutting down, Ford not withstanding, are 90% non union and pay very reasonable wages.

63 posted on 06/12/2015 8:45:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

“They (free traders) do not view the USA like a patriot, but view the USA as an economic zone.”

Needs to be repeated.


64 posted on 06/12/2015 8:49:29 AM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

I guess I am just a silly jingoistic fool.


65 posted on 06/12/2015 8:51:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jazusamo

Excellent article.


66 posted on 06/12/2015 10:03:01 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Jacquerie

Yes, get rid of the administrative agency bureaucracy, or at least trim the staff to bare bones, and make the courts do their job of restricting their authority to the STATUTORY LANGUAGE.


67 posted on 06/12/2015 1:23:10 PM PDT by browniexyz
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To: jazusamo

And they should be hung.


68 posted on 06/12/2015 1:26:11 PM PDT by Fledermaus (NO RINO 2016 or I stay home. Shove it FR RINO lovers.)
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To: jazusamo
TOO MUCH SECRECY!

B T T T ! ! ! ©

69 posted on 06/12/2015 1:27:43 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: Impy

So the general public don’t care about shipping millions more jobs elsewhere? And you what don’t think 93 million Americans unable to find employment is a large enough number of unemployed Americans?


70 posted on 06/12/2015 3:44:56 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: odawg

I drive a Ford built in a plant about 2 miles away and work in a plant that supplies it. It has 40% Canadian and Mexican content (including a German transmission). God Bless NAFTA, and Ronald Reagan, who brought it to us.


71 posted on 06/12/2015 4:11:29 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law. Is the plant inside the USA?


72 posted on 06/12/2015 4:20:12 PM PDT by odawg
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To: 1rudeboy

Incidentally, NAFTA has cost the USA hundreds of thousands of American jobs.


73 posted on 06/12/2015 4:23:10 PM PDT by odawg
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To: dp0622

I already have family members who I no longer trust with anything..


74 posted on 06/12/2015 5:31:16 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: odawg

NAFTA was Reagan’s idea. It’s just that some protectionists have selective memories.


75 posted on 06/12/2015 7:19:50 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: odawg

That’s what the Democrats say.


76 posted on 06/12/2015 7:20:48 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
NAFTA was Reagan’s idea.

I don't think so.

77 posted on 06/12/2015 7:21:23 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: odawg

Both are in Wayne County, Michigan. Motown, if you will . . . .


78 posted on 06/12/2015 7:23:21 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: central_va

I’ve proven it to you countless times. You simply don’t think.


79 posted on 06/12/2015 7:24:35 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: central_va

While we’re at it, let’s thank Reagan for pushing the creation of the WTO over the goal line.


80 posted on 06/12/2015 7:27:00 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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