Posted on 06/23/2015 4:29:02 AM PDT by Leto
As a general matter, I agree (as did Ronald Reagan) that free trade is good for America; when we open up foreign markets, it helps American farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers. But TPA in this Congress has become enmeshed in corrupt Washington backroom deal-making, along with serious concerns that it would open up the potential for sweeping changes in our laws that trade agreements typically do not include. Since the Senate first voted on TPA, there have been two material changes. First, WikiLeaks subsequently revealed new troubling information regarding the Trade in Services Agreement, or TiSA, one of the trade deals being negotiated by Obama. Despite the administration’s public assurances that it was not negotiating on immigration, several chapters of the TiSA draft posted online explicitly contained potential changes in federal immigration law. TPA would cover TiSA, and therefore these changes would presumably be subject to be fast-track. When TPA last came up for a vote, both Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80% and I introduced amendments that would have barred fast-track treatment for any trade agreement that attempted to impact immigration law. Two other Republican senators objected, and we were both denied votes on our amendments. Instead, the House inserted substantially weaker language in related legislation.
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I re-read your post. I overreacted and I hope you’ll accept my apology.
“Defending Obamatrade”
Can you even read? Go back to the post you’re responding to. I called out you Cruz bashers for yelling about him before and now after.
I haven’t mentioned Obamatrade. Now, what was that you said earlier about a “bunch of lies?”
Yes, that seems to be one of the main arguments of Trump supporters for his candidacy....he'd be an improvement over Obama/our current administration.
Dude, you have LOW standards. Aim higher.
Another moronic response from a mouth breather that apparently can’t read. As I previously articulated a COW would be an improvement over ANY politician whether it be an (R) or a (D). I’m not limiting this to Obozo.
If you are happy with with how things have gone over the past 25+ years, and are willing promote someone that is already screwing up the country, you are part of the low information crowd thus part of the problem. Honestly you are making an idiot of yourself without even knowing it.
Thanks for proving my point while being too simple-minded to recognize it.
Honestly I never expected an LIV like you to understand the error of your ways.
~ Cheers Paco
The Obamacare ruling today by the USSC was another point of proof that I offer up to you that there is zero difference between an (R) or a (D) politician. Roberts was a Bush appointee in case you didn’t know.
So a “cloture” vote is not voting FOR the bill itself, but for voting to continue or set a time limit for consideration of a bill.
We. all. know. this. Maybe I can explain to you why I am so disappointed in this vote.
We have a speaker of the house who punishes representatives who vote in accordance with representing their district.
We have a majority senate leader who cheats in primaries, and had this to say on Jan 7.
“We’re in active discussion on TPA,” said McConnell, adding, “It’s an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president, but that’s how much we believe in trade as an important part of America’s economy.”
We have a president, who is actively trying to destroy our country.
I voted for Cruz in the primary, the runoff and the general because I thought he got this. I thought he saw how corrupt our govt. had gotten, and would work to stop it.
The tpa besides starting a timer, also changes the necessary voting requirements to simple majority.
Why would anybody lower the threshold with these 3 people in power? I don’t care what amendments Cruz had in the bill. There is a 60 day window, this group of people change bills in the middle of the night and expect a vote in the a.m. As far as the dems being against it because of labor unions, yeah right. I am sure this administration would never go to them and say psst.... vote for this, and I will take care of the part about the unions after passage, because that has never happened before. /s
And at the end of the day, when all this is done, what will congress do about it? NOTHING.
Cruz should have never trusted that this group of people would not cheat, lie or steal, they will. it should have always been a no vote, no matter what was in it.
The problem with that idea, though, is that even if you walk away, others won’t....
They will influence what goes on in your life.
You are absolutely correct. There will always be those folks who think that they know how to better run your life, as well as those on our side who believe that “this time will be different” and that we can elect better kleptocrats. God Bless them. Let them spend their time, so long as they’re not wasting mine or ours.
What I’m proposing is more of an end run. Not with the goal of improving the kleptocrats, but with the goal of rendering them irrelevant.
That is good because I would rather be wrong here than see him wrong here.
In related news today, Nike reported a blow your socks off earnings statement. Earnings from slave shoe manufacturing in the Pacific Rim, so people on EBT cards and Obamaphones can pay $280.00 for a pair of sneakers made for $6.00 a pair in Cambodia or Maylasia.
Yes,and as I have posted on other threads
Apple watch basic Cost 85. Retail 350
Nike Air Jordan’s Cost 15 Retail 300
Savings for the American consumer is what it’s all about
Wait,What?
It sure made my machine faster! It might have been you who turned me on to it.
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