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In reply to the discussion: The Ed Show Just Handed Obamas A$$ back to him on TPP [View all]sendero
(28,552 posts)91. Exactly..
.... he is working for his post-term wealth, which is the system we have set up and everyone in the presidency plays it well.
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What does this Party STAND FOR, anymore??? Seems all our "leadership" are 1980's Republicans.
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2014
#2
I also wonder that, what is the Dem. Plan? and Vision? Seems we're clearly not involved or as I saw
appalachiablue
Dec 2014
#7
In this day of politics as a team sport (PATS-I'm going to start using that) they don't need
cui bono
Dec 2014
#80
After watching Ed in Wisconsin supporting the teachers I have always understood that if I needed
jwirr
Dec 2014
#18
I just saw this TPP piece by Ed Schultz with VT Peter Defazio, Mark Pochan, Leo Gerard Steelworkers.
appalachiablue
Dec 2014
#5
Exactly. And that's why the apologists listing PBO's social progress are missing the big picture.
cui bono
Dec 2014
#81
FDR must have been one of them. He and Truman were the ones that designed the post-war trading
pampango
Dec 2014
#29
FDR favored multinaitonal trade agreements provided they would not lower the standard of
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#46
Your quote is from FDR in 1933. His commitment to multilateral trade agreements evolved later.
pampango
Dec 2014
#47
We've already entered the post-human era I think. A dilemma as I'm big on humans.
appalachiablue
Dec 2014
#60
Well isn't that nice. We were also told we were going to get a public option before the actual
cui bono
Dec 2014
#84
Obama has never fought for labor, neither has Hillary. And it has been decades since
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2014
#8
"NAFTA on steroids"? How can you argue with that level of analysis? Good going, TV host Ed!
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#16
Even TPP's critics know that it has little to do with reducing tariffs like NAFTA did.
pampango
Dec 2014
#33
TPP will allow corporations to become self aware. And that's not good for anybody.
Initech
Dec 2014
#27
Are "Washington DC Democrats" those ""rich out-of-touch east coast open-borders globalist liberals"
pampango
Dec 2014
#36
Ed should invite Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as regular guests at least on his radio show
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#42
Krugman thinks the TPP is "no big deal". I doubt that you or many others think the same of NAFTA.
pampango
Dec 2014
#65
If "no big deal" is a defense, so be it. And it is really not that much effort.
pampango
Dec 2014
#72
Don't forget, Ed raged about why the Keystone Pipeline was IMPORTANT to America....
George II
Dec 2014
#57
He didn't change his tune when it suited him. He changed his tune when he was clued in on truth.
Enthusiast
Dec 2014
#70