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Senate Democrats block action on Obama's trade agenda
Yahoo/AP ^ | 5-12-15 | By CHARLES BABINGTON

Posted on 05/12/2015 2:50:09 PM PDT by kingattax

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats dealt President Barack Obama a stinging setback on trade Tuesday, blocking efforts to begin a full-blown debate on a top priority of his second term

The president's supporters said they will try again, possibly starting in the House. But they couldn't sugar-coat a solid rebuke from the president's own party, led by some who served with him in the Senate.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alibi; election2016; fasttrack; obamatrade; orrinhatch; tpa; tpp; utah
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To: Truth29
Dodging away
21 posted on 05/12/2015 5:40:20 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Democrat_media

Yes in Dallas .
Could care less.


22 posted on 05/12/2015 5:43:36 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: ColdOne

Feels really weird, I know.


23 posted on 05/12/2015 8:01:08 PM PDT by biff (Et Tu Boeh-ner)
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To: laplata

Who can we trust and support to stop Hillary in 2016? This is nuts they are all owned.


24 posted on 05/12/2015 10:29:52 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life

This is nuts they are all owned.


I have to agree.

Things are too far gone. There is no one who will be able to fix this disaster.

God is our only hope.


25 posted on 05/12/2015 10:45:13 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: kingattax

“Patriotic Unions join with Conservatives to deal a setback to Internationalist Socialists and Multinational Corporationists. The latter vow to redouble efforts to impoverish Americans and surrender American sovereignty to undemocratic international agencies.”


26 posted on 05/13/2015 5:44:00 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: ncalburt
Cruz had better get a convincing argument out to conservatives yesterday or he is just going to be another flash in the pan to be more easily buried by the establishment GOP even though they are gungho supporting Obama..
27 posted on 05/13/2015 5:46:13 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Democrat_media

I agree with you that there may be about a dozen good GOP senators. But ALL the present senators voted FOR this bilge, save Mitch for strategic reasons. Can’t anyone stand up and explain why every Obama idea and nomination is bad for America?


28 posted on 05/13/2015 10:37:19 AM PDT by alstewartfan (I've sailed my dreams like ships out on a sea. Some faced rocks and some faced mutiny. Al Stewart)
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To: alstewartfan

Republican Senator Jeff Sessions voted against giving Obama any more trade power and allowing Obama to flood the USA with more immigrants.


29 posted on 05/13/2015 11:21:32 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: Democrat_media

I heard that EVERY GOP Senator voted for this fresh empowerment of Chairman Maobama. Bob


30 posted on 05/13/2015 11:39:03 AM PDT by alstewartfan (I've sailed my dreams like ships out on a sea. Some faced rocks and some faced mutiny. Al Stewart)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Has Ted given a lame excuse for casting this deplorable vote?


31 posted on 05/13/2015 11:41:44 AM PDT by alstewartfan (I've sailed my dreams like ships out on a sea. Some faced rocks and some faced mutiny. Al Stewart)
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To: alstewartfan; All

That’s totally WRONG. Republican Senator Jeff Sessions voted against it and led the coalition to defeat Obama here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3289331/posts


32 posted on 05/13/2015 11:55:59 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: alstewartfan; All

That’s totally WRONG. Republican Senator Jeff Sessions voted against it and led the coalition to defeat Obama here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3289331/posts

“Yesterday, led by Alabama’s principled limited constitutional conservative Senator Jeff Sessions, a small band of the Senate’s “populist conservative” Republicans joined with Democrats to, temporarily at least, derail the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority bill (TPA) now working its way through Congress.”


33 posted on 05/13/2015 11:57:15 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: Democrat_media

Thank you very much. This worshipping at the altar of the “free trade” god makes me sick.


34 posted on 05/13/2015 2:02:08 PM PDT by alstewartfan (I've sailed my dreams like ships out on a sea. Some faced rocks and some faced mutiny. Al Stewart)
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To: Truth29

What big money donors has Ted been meeting with lately? I hope he is not becoming one who kowtows to the enemy for campaign cash. He has no idea how much people loathe these trade deals!


35 posted on 05/13/2015 2:17:09 PM PDT by alstewartfan (I've sailed my dreams like ships out on a sea. Some faced rocks and some faced mutiny. Al Stewart)
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To: Democrat_media

Whoa. The new thread about Rand Paul says that Sessions voted with all Republicans except Mitch to BACK Obama. Please explain. Thanks! Bob


36 posted on 05/13/2015 4:08:57 PM PDT by alstewartfan (I've sailed my dreams like ships out on a sea. Some faced rocks and some faced mutiny. Al Stewart)
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To: alstewartfan

Sessions is and always has been against passing of the TPP/TPA trade deal:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3289331/posts

Yesterday, led by Alabama’s principled limited constitutional conservative Senator Jeff Sessions, a small band of the Senate’s “populist conservative” Republicans joined with Democrats to, temporarily at least, derail the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority bill (TPA) now working its way through Congress.

The TPA bill is backed by a strange alliance of Big Business, establishment Republicans and, wait for it – Barack Obama.

Only one Democrat, Sen. Tom Carper, voted for the bill.

The Wall Street Journal attacked conservatives opposing the bill as “No-Growth Republicans,” but the clear winner in the battle so far has been Senator Sessions, who has deftly managed to build a coalition of conservatives and Democrats around the sensible idea that if the government is going to manage trade it should be managed in a way that benefits American workers, which it clearly hasn’t been for the past two decades in Sessions’ analysis.

The WSJ editorial board attacked Sessions’ recent and well-reasoned “critical alert” about the interconnected TPA and TPP deals, insulting him as an “Alabama tub-thumper” and “protectionist politician” who is “indulging in the classic tactic of the anti-trade movement: scare mongering.”

The Journal, without offering any facts to support its argument, wrote too that Sessions’ conservative economic populism “is no way to rebuild a conservative majority.”

But in our friend Matt Boyle’s analysis “It wasn’t until Sessions forcibly took control of the party message heading into the 2014 midterm elections that Republicans won big time, taking back the U.S. Senate and enlarging their House majority. That only came after a year plus of GOP infighting while Ryan, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush joined forces with Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), pushing open borders immigration policies coupled with amnesty via the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill.”

While the Senate passed the bill in a bloody process, noted Boyle, the House never took up the immigration bill—and the 113th Congress came and went without any amnesty passed into law.

Republicans won big as they railed against President Obama’s then-just-planned executive amnesty—which he went ahead and did anyway despite every inside-the-beltway political prognosticator being wrong about the necessity of Gang of Eight style “immigration reform” for the GOP’s survival as a political party Boyle concluded.

And Boyle is right – almost all of the Republican candidates for President have come out against all or part of the Big Business open borders agenda – the notable exceptions being Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.

From Scott Walker to Bobby Jindal to Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump Republican presidential candidates have been lining up to oppose TPA too – and those who have voiced some support for the concept – like Ted Cruz – who is good on the rest of the populist conservative agenda, quickly felt the heat.

No wonder The Wall Street Journal is on a rampage against Sessions.

The “donor class” of the Republican (and Democratic) Party that the Wall Street Journal editorial board represents—who Sessions calls the “Masters of the Universe”—are losing influence in a big way over the Republican Party says Matt Boyle.

Matt Boyle is right. While the Wall Street – Washington – Silicon Valley Axis still clearly has a stranglehold over most of the congressional GOP leadership, on the campaign trail—especially the Republican presidential nomination contest—they’re losing control while Sessions’ populism is taking over. No matter what polls you look at it, it’s a similar situation. So it’s quite clear, for now, Sessions is winning his war against the “Masters of the Universe.” That’s why Wall Street, and its journal, are trembling.

To read Matt Boyle’s detailed analysis of the rise of the Jeff Sessions brand of conservative populism in “JEFF SESSIONS RISING: WALL STREET LOSING CONTROL OVER REPUBLICAN PARTY HEADING INTO 2016” click the link.


37 posted on 05/13/2015 4:17:17 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: Democrat_media

Thank you very much, but I confess that I don’t understand the YEA vote of guys like Cruz, Lee and Sessions at all. Bob


38 posted on 05/14/2015 4:55:06 AM PDT by alstewartfan (I've sailed my dreams like ships out on a sea. Some faced rocks and some faced mutiny. Al Stewart)
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