Not so fast, fellow Democrats!
For those who still trust our Democratic president when he says we should all look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement before we condemn it, we need to understand 3 out of 4 trade bills just passed Congress. The 'infamous' TAA and the passed but 'apocalyptic' TPA are part of the same Senate package bill, so they both have to be passed together to go to the president's desk for signature. TPA is done -- next week TAA may be reconsidered and voted on.
What next?
Game. Set ... What now?
Like Hulk Hogan in a headlock, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, quickly pulled off a bold, high-stakes legislative maneuver. His chief lieutenant, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., called for an immediate vote on "fast track" even without the job training sweetener intended to gain Democratic votes. It passed, 219-211.
That vote kept the trade package alive, but it still needs some form of trade adjustment assistance in order to win Senate support. Practically speaking, that needs to come next week, or it probably won't come at all. But when the congressional leadership and the president agree that when something must pass, it usually does — even if some arms are broken in the process.
Pelosi suggested one path out of the tangle: Tying passage of the trade deal to a job-creating highway bill that Democrats would support.
Could Nancy Pelosi have an endgame where President Obama remains vital and she gets us a job's bill for needed infrastructure?
We'll see...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/12/first-take-obama-trade-deal/71133464/
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Keep up, dammit!
(Do I need the 
thingy?)
logical question is if it's so "secret", how do they know what the hell is in it? If he disses us "average Americans", then surely he must be privy to some insider knowledge other than "commenters commenting", right?
Perhaps he's BettyEllening it ... Yep, pretty certain he's pulling a BettyEllen. 
I didn't get it when she was speaking but I realize now that the deal must have been hammered out before she said a peep and she knew exactly how it was going to go down. In fact she said something about the TAA coming back for reconsideration, like "they originally said they wouldn't allow a revote but now they've changed their mind." And that was before the vote was taken.
So I think what will happen now is, the TAA will get one or two adjustments, probably minor, and revoted on early next week, when it will pass with much fanfare and will be touted as a win for Dem critics, because by that time the media will have sold the story that Obama was brutally rebuked by Dems and his trade deal defeated, which is what every headline in Google News is still running with, weird. so it's like the Senate billl -- first they said no, then when nobody was looking they said yes.
p.s. who cares how the sausage was made as long it gets done! 
But the weirdest moment was probably when Debbie Dingle, also of MI, got up after being warmly introduced by Levin and proceeded to trash the Korea FTA right in front of him.
If the OP mentioned is referring to the original article, try to find a positive article about Obama anywhere! This article at least points out a possible salvage to the complete abandonment of the House Democrats of key legislation President Obama has been asking for.
Believe me, unequivocally supporting President Obama on this legislation is a very lonely enterprise for only his staunchest supporters! 
MBS!On several occasions, President Obama has been incredulous that his own Democratic friends and colleagues believe he would support something that could be what they have condemned with such ginned-up extremist babble - and they know better!
He has pointed out they are all merely politicians...
The lack of interest in facts is appalling! Everywhere, opinion and general perception are the be all and end all. Argument and presentation of facts just draws a double-down in wrong-headed blind bubble-thinking.
I used to think 'we' were the smart team... 
Democratic leaders were dispensing unbelievable (in my opinion) misinformation. 
One in particular said she refused to read the TPP draft available to Congresspersons. If she read it, she would not be able to do these broad criticisms -- in case they were true (or not true?) and then she would have to maintain secrecy! Ignorance is bliss?
Someone read a section of TPA pointing out how this legislation specifically bans any trade agreement outcomes overriding our US laws. He was accused by the same Democratic Congressperson of violating confidentiality by citing sections of the agreement! He had to point out - to a Congressperson! - anyone can go on-line and read the entire proposal - TPA is not confidential and never has been!
The big meme today - by Democrats! - was how could we do deals with a communist country like Vietnam, when not so long ago we were sending our young men and women to fight and die...
Now, why would President Obama be accused of anger and "peevishness"? 
I swear...
