This House vote sure separated the GOP from the GOPe, otherwise known as the Obama water-carriers or Obama fans.
Word for next week: SUNSHINE.
Let's see ALL of the secret legislation, before the VOTE!
We can actually read.
The thing is, as I understand it, that all trade agreements have always been secret and must be kept secret because of all the horse trading that is happening inside the trade deal, right up to show time, when the agreement is finally stilled by signatures.
All those moving parts change, as Partner A responds to Partner B, which therefore might alter the course for Partner C, and so on.
It makes sense up to a point, because in the past everybody could understand horse trading, from the farm to the city, and could understand that a good outcome would require secrecy above all, until they heard the auctioneer finally say, SOLD!
But in the past there was TRUST. That’s dead now, I’d say, under this president, so if Obama is Partner C, he’s in the drivers seat, not Congress. Not anymore. Circumventing Congress is what Obama eats for breakfast, so what does it matter that there may be some innocuous “guarantee” for Congress written in the final agreement?
Boehner can be depended upon to reverse nothing. lol!