Posted on 02/04/2016 7:16:15 PM PST by Amntn
President Obama's trade representative signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, one of the largest multinational trade agreements in history.
Following the signing of the agreement, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80% , who has been the fiercest GOP opponent in Congress of President Obama's globalist trade agenda, called upon every elected official and every Presidential candidate to reveal "where they stand on the TPP."
Sessions writes:
7,000 miles away, the President's trade representative just quietly signed a massive, 5,544 page trade deal, with little fanfare from its supporters. Only months ago Congress voted to 'fast-track' this deal, despite not knowing its contents.
Sessions suggests that the deal's "unpopularity with the American people" may perhaps "explain why we are not seeing politicians expressing support for this gargantuan agreement," despite the fact that many politicians voted to fast-track the deal- which helps to ensure not only the passage of TPP, but all subsequent trade pacts, which are now liberated from Senate filibuster, amendment process and constitutional treaty vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
After Obama Signs Trans-Pacific Partnership, Sessions Demands Candidates Reveal Their Position On Trade Deal
Thanks Ted and Rubio!
One is a rube and the other can’t be trusTED!
Best reason to elect Trump
AMEN to that!!!
The countries have 2 years to ratify it or will Obama just do it himself ?
Our “leaders” are traitors...and losers.
More from the article:
Sessions writes:
7,000 miles away, the President’s trade representative just quietly signed a massive, 5,544 page trade deal, with little fanfare from its supporters. Only months ago Congress voted to ‘fast-track’ this deal, despite not knowing its contents.
Sessions suggests that the deal’s “unpopularity with the American people” may perhaps “explain why we are not seeing politicians expressing support for this gargantuan agreement,” despite the fact that many politicians voted to fast-track the deal- which helps to ensure not only the passage of TPP, but all subsequent trade pacts, which are now liberated from Senate filibuster, amendment process and constitutional treaty vote.
Sessions declared: “Every elected official, every candidate must be crystal clear about where they stand on the TPP. The American people deserve no less.”
We Trumpets have more fun!
Leni
Thanks to Ted, Rubio and the rest of GOP RINO’s.
No wonder there was a huge opening for Trump.
Dear Lurk’in
Really?
You don’t seriously believe Billionaire long time New Yawk liberal Trump isn’t also a member of the elite hive?
Come on -
The fix is in.
We are toast Solely because we are apathetic and demoralized.
Like European men, we’ve lost our fight and grown comfortable with current corrupt mediocrity leftist gov’t.
Tell ya one thing, for sure.
The coming misery and pain of losing your free republic, far outweighs the fact 1% of Americans (3.3 million, out of 330 Million) don’t organize and take to state capitols and DC NOW.
We will all greatly regret our collective negligence to safeguard our liberty.
From your link:
Sen. Rand Paul is the only 2016 GOP presidential candidate who not only read TPP text before taking a concertedly clear public position on the matter, but also the only 2016 GOP presidential candidate in Congress who voted against the TPA.
They must!
Teddy was for it, against it, for it, against it, for it...
No matter what he says now it fits his and Heidi’s history.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/18/us/politics/immigration-document.html?_r=2
In order to place blame on Cruz for that vote you must be able to unequivocally establish several unprovable propositions:
1. That Ted Cruz knew or should have known that the provisions of the subsequent trade treaty (TPP) would be, on balance, negative for the American economy. You must be able to impute future knowledge to Ted Cruz at the time of the cloture vote on TPA.
2. You must be able to establish that proposition for a time in which no treaty had been negotiated.
3. That it was knowable at the time of the TPA cloture vote that foreign trade negotiators would consent to negotiate with the United States if our negotiators did not possess fast-track authority authorized by TPA even though they declared that they would not.
4. You must be able to prove that proposition when history unequivocally demonstrates the contrary.
5. If you concede the treaty negotiations would not have occurred in the absence of TPA, you must then unequivocally demonstrate that no treaty would be better for the American economy while other nations participated in a treaty arrangement, a treaty agreement which of course is unknowable and certainly unknown to Ted Cruz at the time of the cloture vote.
6. You must be able to establish unequivocally the proposition that TPP would have failed a two thirds majority in the Senate when it eventually arrived there for confirmation and you must impute that knowledge to Ted Cruz at the time of the cloture vote when no one has any idea what will be in that treaty. You must prove unequivocally that TPP would have been defeated by a two thirds vote.
7. If you can establish these propositions, you must then establish unequivocally the propositions that Donald Trump will somehow negotiate a better treaty deal, that Donald Trump would get fast track authority from Congress (or you must establish that other nations will deal with Trump without it), that Donald Trump will not start a trade war which tragically harms the American economy, that all of this and answers to all of these imponderables will have been known to Ted Cruz at the time he voted cloture on TPA.
Stop already with his mindless bashing of Cruz for perfectly a rational vote and a purely conservative vote in keeping with more than a century of American practice concerning the negotiation of treaties on trade and other issues.
Trump is the ONLY one who talks about fair trade agreements, the only one who is credible on illegal immigration, the only one who is credible on limiting H-1B visas, the only one who is honest about where he stands.
Rand Paul reads all bills before signing them. He is a hard worker. He is also a fiscal hawk. He needs to be more tough on criminals & drug users.
We had 2 million in DC on 9/12/2009 and it’s like it never happened.
Down the memory hole.
I really don’t think Trump is a globalist.
They seem pretty determined to keep him out.
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