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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsmarym625
(17,997 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Truly.
marym625
(17,997 posts)That and I guess President Obama was rather insulting, which didn't help him
MADem
(135,425 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)tritsofme
(17,399 posts)Very very poor decision by Pelosi. This could not only scuttle the president's trade agenda, but permanently kill the TAA program. Republicans will not allow a vote on TAA that is not linked to TPA, this will kill it.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Why wouldn't we?
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)country who are part of this deal, have been opposing it from the beginning. Not so of course, the obscenely wealthy Corporate entities and their lobbyists with their bags of money to try to buy votes in the governments of all the nations involved.
The mystery of the century is why this president has aligned himself with this disaster.
Good for Pelosi, I was afraid she was going to cave.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Scandinavian favorites -- and more ready to sign these agreements when finalized? I guess every one -- some 40-50 governments -- have all been brainwashed by corporations. All of them must have leaders who are just stupid and planning on selling their citizens/working-people into slavery, destroying their health care systems, destroying their domestic corporations, etc..
The agreement will likely still go through, but we won't get all the countries to agree to some of the things that would make it better for us, and the world.
At best, opponents have hurt Obama/our chances of ensuring our future in a global word (whether we like it, or not), by acting like Nationalists, Sovereign Citizens, etc. That's the kind of stuff that starts wars.
cali
(114,904 posts)wherein she knows there are enough dem votes to pass it.
And sinking TPA is worth killing TAA.
tritsofme
(17,399 posts)Substantially more GOP votes for TAA are not likely.
But it is certainly a fast moving football this afternoon.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)thank dog it failed.
Omaha Steve
(99,727 posts)On my cell phone. Marta is getting her hair done. I'm with her.
Nancy was great!
I hate DUing my cell.
OS
Left coast liberal
(1,138 posts)I am relieved that she isn't tone deaf like my 2 Senators; Cantwell, Murry
ReallyIAmAnOptimist
(357 posts)Very disappointing!!!
[I'm in the 41st LD (Bellevue), past PCO.]
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)I just hope this isn't just show for base and BTS she works to help it pass like reid and schumur did in senate.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)her butt. We shall see. Right now, since I had read earlier this week that she was huddling with Dem, trying to see who would get hurt the least, I see this all as a kabuki play.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Worker re-training got defeated, but fast track passed "narrowly," much like the narrow vote that defeated Amash Conyers. Worst possibly result. If the minority leader really did not want that bill to pass, I don't think it would have passed.
Sorry, Japanese friends, but there's no kabuki like D.C. kabuki. Not as old as yours, but, oh, so subtle and hard to prove, yet sometimes, so obvious.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...funny how, for some, she can't do anything right. Apparently, this is just a ruse to satisfy the 'base' while others vote for the bill; as if the minority leader has perfect control over them.
cali
(114,904 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)If voting against TAA slows down (TPA), Im prepared to vote against TAA, she said, hammering the final nail into the bills coffin.
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/rebuffing-obama-pelosi-democrats-scuttle-trade-deal/
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)I guess we shall see what happens, very soon.