Posted on 06/12/2015 5:41:46 PM PDT by FR_addict
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warns:
It appears there will be another attempt by Tuesday to force through new executive powers for President Obama. A vote for TAA next week is a vote to send fast-track to the President’s desk and to grant him these broad new executive authorities. If that happens, it will empower the President to form a Pacific Union encompassing 40 percent of the world’s economy and 12 nations—each with one equal vote. ... Fast-track will not only apply to the Pacific Union, but can expedite an unlimited number of yet-unseen international compacts for six years. There are already plans to advance through fast-track the Trade in Services Agreement, the goal of which includes labor mobility among more than 50 nations, further eroding the ability of the American people to control their own affairs.
Americans do not want this, did not ask for it, and are pleading from their hearts for their lawmakers to stop it.
The same people projecting the benefits of leaping into a colossal new economic union could not even accurately predict the impact of a standalone agreement with South Korea. The latter deal, which promised to boost our exports to them $10 billion, instead only budged them less than $1 billion, while South Korea’s imports to us increased more than $12 billion, nearly doubling our trading deficit. This new agreement will only further increase our trading deficit: opening our markets to foreign imports while allowing our trading partners to continue their non-tariff barriers that close their markets to ours. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“All politicians have a conflict of interest. Sleeping with a managing partner of Goldman Sachs is a conflict of interest by Ted.”
Yeah. I haven’t wanted to go there, but that his wife works for goldman is a fact. I still don’t want to go there. No reason to.
Ted Cruz has probably already scuttled whatever chance he had at the nomination. He’s running number 6 in the polls. He’s spinning this issue a great deal, which would tell any reasonably astute observer that there is a reason for that. He’s probably watching his internals and fundraising take a nosedive. Why vote for Jeb’s ideological twin on immigration and trade when the real mccoy is running?
I’ll wait for the withdrawal announcement, but I believe Ted will go back to being being a backbencher in the senate soon enough.
Sad though he had promise. I remember when he was filibustering and saying that we were looking at a future president.
The Trade issue has been terribly confused and he might have managed it if he had gotten the message on it out soon enough and clearly enough.
I don’t like TPA in the first place because it circumvents the 2/3 vote necessary for treaties and indeed fast tracks the agreements with a simple 51% majority as I understand it. I can see the point that the up / down vote is necessary because the things might never get out of congress. If they are good for the country then a up / down vote should be fine.
I really don’t care that we have had TPA for 80 years or not. It got us too many crummy things like NAFTA. Dingy Harry voted it out for some reason.
They owned the Senate and the House.
Let's hope so!
“— it does take a certain I. Q. quotient.”
Oh, I know! It’s just too nuanced for some of us!
Becareful there are other Freepers whom will call you a troll because you do not support Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz. Been there and have been called a troll and a RINO, because i question Rafael “Ted” Cruz
Becareful because other freepers will call you a troll and RINo because you have questioned the annoitted one Rafael “Ted” Cruz
Lol....and commie and democrat supporter, too.
Keep calling me a commie and a democrat supporter. Because Lady I fought for you to be able to spout off at the mouth. i lost many a friend when the Barracks was bombed in Lebanon. So spout offf more about anyone who does not suck Cruz’s teat
I didn’t call you that. I’m saying that’s what we’re being called if we DON’T support this cr@p trade bill, or Sen Cruz’s support for it. I was called those things, earlier.
Sorry if I misunderstood you because I have received some pretty bear scat replies and accusations of being troll, RINO and unintelligent. The problem is many people are so versed into Rafael ted Cruz that they cannot see the trees through the forest. Blindly aligning oneself to cruz. Cruz has clay feet - free trade is not what is at stake. It is American sovereignity 12 nations to do trade with. The USA already does trade with Japan, Korea, Australia. What products do we get from Japan - Sony, Toyota, Lexus, Nissan, Honda, Acura, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Kubota, Panasonic. What products do we get from Korea, - Daewoo, Huyandi, KIA, and many others. China supplies the uS with Haier refrigeration Systems,VW and BMW parts. many of our manufacturers have fled to China to have products made Whirlpool, Dell, Hewlett packard/Compaq and endless other products. isolate the uS from China and basically cut out throats too. Corporate America has sold off America.
Answer build what we need here. produce our own oil and to hell with the rest of the world. prior to WWI Germany was America’s number one trade partner. germany is still a significant trade partner today, but it is being surpassed by China.
“Be Careful there are other Freepers whom will call you a troll because you do not support Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz. Been there and have been called a troll and a RINO, because i question Rafael “Ted” Cruz.”
No worries. I’ve been called worse on FR several times. Funny that you mention it. I don’t get called a troll much any more. After you accumulate 12,000 plus posts on FR, I guess the “troll” epithet rings pretty hollow.
This has been the most confusing subject for me. I am under the impression that TPA only fast tracks the vote to both houses of Congress for TPP. Am I correct in that or is there more to it? I am willing to wait to see how all the Republicans on TPP before holding them to judgment. I have read so many articles from both sides on this and I am still confused.
Quite the opposite actually. There are two ways to constitutionally get a trade deal: law or treaty. TPA makes the trade deals a federal law (originating in the House on to the senate and signed by the president), not a treaty (approved by 66 senators, no House involvement). Treaties, which is the route Sessions wants to take on trade deals, are what hand over sovereignty to international bureaucrats, not federal laws. TPA insures everything goes through both houses of congress. Treaties are dangerous.
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