Ready for Round Two? GOP and Obama Scrambling to Revive TPP Fast Track

[99th_Monkey]

Obama's not only NOT "listening to Nancy Pelosi" on TPP, he's aggressively collaborating
with McConnell and Boehner.

Get Ready for Round Two: GOP and White House Work to Revive Fast Track

"Let's be clear, we do not need a 'do over' vote for Fast Track, we need an entire 'redo' of U.S. trade policy," says green group Friends of the Earth

by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer * 6/15/2015 * Common Dreams

Even as they celebrated last week's quasi-victory against clandestine, corporate trade deals, civil society groups warned the fight over Fast Track was not over.

They were right.

Indeed, Friday's defeat of Fast Track, or trade promotion authority, could be reversed as early as this week, with the U.S. House of Representatives reportedly considering a number of options for reviving the legislation. As Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger wrote in an op-ed published Monday at Common Dreams, Friday's vote was "only Round One."

"The unholy trio of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (who has vowed to keep any of Obama’s nominees from being confirmed), Speaker of the House John Boehner (who has thwarted just about every Democratic legislative proposal of the past several years), and President Obama (a Democrat, in case you are having trouble remembering) are as one in a desperate effort to rescue their Frankenstein-like creation," Moyers and Weisberger wrote.

Congressional rules required that the House approve both Fast Track and Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) in order for the overall trade package to move forward as it did in the Senate. Thus, Friday's overwhelming "No" vote on TAA—which went down 126-302—meant defeat for those angling to hand over trade negotiating power from Congress to President Barack Obama.

Many Democrats, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), voted against TAA in an express effort to derail Fast Track.

[villager]

1. He's certainly making it crystal clear what he, at last, is willing to fight for

n/t

[99th_Monkey]

4. And that he CAN fight, when he decides to. -nt-

[villager]

5. Powder not being kept dry!

[wolfie001]

13. I remember early on when he stacked his Economic Council....

....with anti-Labor Corporate hacks and diluted Progressives and Labor leaders. A far cry from his campaign rhetoric. This is early 2009 by the way. He showed his hand early.

[villager]

17. Yup. You knew from the cabinet appointments we'd been had...

n/t

[wolfie001]

22. Pisses me off because he must think we can't fucking read and follow up on this crap!

He was so on the sidelines during Occupy Wall Street........sigh..........

[frylock]

28. yeah, funny that we were forced to accept that he just didn't have the votes for a public option..

he was clearly unwilling to fight for those votes.

[pangaia]

2. Just the fact that the GOP, McConnell and Boehner

are for it is all the evidence anyone needs to be against it.

[wolfie001]

15. The jackasses that keep voting those two slugs in!!!!!!

[MannyGoldstein]

3. It almost seems like the TPP is an existential issue for Obama

Utterly mind boggling.

[Triana]

8. Here's why. His fellow Wall St crony US Trade Rep Michael Froman wants it to save bankster's asses

WHY POTUS and US Trade Rep want this SO bad: Fast Track Hands the Money Monopoly to Private Banks, Permanently

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31370-fast-track-hands-the-money-monopoly-to-private-banks-permanently

[pa28]

6. Pelosi made it clear in her statements that she was open for some horse trading.

She specifically mentioned highway funding. Anyone who thinks this is over needs to read a bit more closely.

Pelosi: Highway bill would 'greatly increase' trade prospects

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/244860-pelosi-highway-bill-would-greatly-increase-trade-prospects

[99th_Monkey]

10. Actually that's exactly what I'm afraid of ... Pelosi horse-trading

Ever since Hillary told Obama to "listen to Pelosi" .. that she (and Hillary by implication) are
ready to cave in a heart-beat once the price is right for them (not for We the People

This is why I posted this just yesterday:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026835856

I knew this would happen, rather than a clean "NO!" vote
on that steaming poisonous pile of shit called TPP

[marym625]

18. Sorry I missed that

Frankly, everyone should listen to Sanders on trade.

[99th_Monkey]

23. True dat

but as we're learning, very little of this is even about "trade".

It's like we need another word for these Frankenstein monsters called "trade deals"

[marym625]

25. Sure it is about trade.

We're trading our very livelihoods for a true corpocracy. And many of our our lawmakers have already traded their souls to the devil.

[99th_Monkey]

30. I see you have a point

I guess it's all in how you look at it.

[marym625]

31. LOL!

Well ya gotta make things work in this world. Adjustments man. Just follow their lead and they'll all be fine.

Us? Not so much.

[Triana]

7. CALL. YOUR. REPS. Demand that they vote AGAINST TPA and TPP!

DO NOT LET THEM DO THIS TO US.

It takes less than 5 minutes to call. DO IT!

http://www.house.gov/representatives/

[99th_Monkey]

9. Yep. calling tomorrow -nt-

[PADemD]

20. Called my Rep. today.

[marym625]

24. +1000

[BrotherIvan]

11. Don't forget Obama's and Hillary's favorite son, Paul Fucking Ryan

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/hillary-clinton-murray-ryan-budget-deal-115499.html#.VX9f6VVViko

Paul Fucking Ryan!!!!!!

[marym625]

16. Yeah, if that doesn't make,

Uhm, shall we say for conversations sake, Democrats, think about how bad this is, nothing will.

[wolfie001]

19. He really is a piece of ........what's the word?.........

.........oh yeah, SHIT!!!!!!

[WillyT]

12. Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[marym625]

14. called again today. Quigley plans on voting for it again

I KNOW his constituents are against it.

Smdh

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. Keep calling your Senators, Representatives and Whitehouse to oppose TPP and other "trade"

agreements. It is a corporate coup d'états.

Every call you make to your Reps, Sens and WH is worth 4,000 constituents voices, so call.

Whitehouse Comments: 202-456-1111

United States Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

[Phlem]

26. K&R! K&R! K&R! K&R!

Greed never sleeps. This is a prime example and a and a candid look at how vigilant we must be.

This is the new normal.

[Jack Rabbit]

27. You know, if Obama switched party affiliation, he'd still be a better president then Gee Dubya

And he'd be the best Republican president since Bill Clinton.

[cstanleytech]

29. Hey I dont have many objections to TPP passing.

As long as every single tax loophole that the rich and corporations are using to avoid paying taxes is closed first and no new ones can ever be opened for them and the tax on the extremely wealthy (10+ million) is raised up to atleast 50% and that includes taxing more income from stocks and other investments that whos value is more than 1 million dollars.