[SoConPubbie]

I am willing to wait and hear this be defended, or understand it better, hopefully he can do so. I have to say, I'm not happy with his vote or position on this issue right now.

So am I. That being said, what I have read, so far, about this, all the naysayers notwithstanding, seems to show that TPA and TPP not only is constitutional and long standing process, only being refused to Richard Nixon, but the current TPA drastically improves the process by making it more open and more restrictive on the President. Add in the amendments that are being offered by Ryan and Cruz (Illegal Immigration and Global Warming) and I have to support it.

I believe a lot of what is being posted is by political operatives of one stripe or another or by supporters of Rand Paul, etc.

I also normally despise Paul Ryan for being the Mitt Romney Mini-Me that he is, but his amendments to the process are a good thing.

[cripplecreek]

I think it was Steve Scalise who says that TPA actually excludes China as a means of weakening their control of smaller Pacific rim nations.

Bobby Jindal’s trade mission to Asia a while back seems to back that up with his concentration on nations outside China like Malaysia and the Philippines. At that time he called it an encouraging sign for TPP but I don’t think TPA was on the radar at that point.