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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReady for Round Two? GOP and Obama Scrambling to Revive TPP Fast Track
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 Obamas 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 TAAwhich went down 126-302meant 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
(26,001 posts)n/t
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)wolfie001
(2,270 posts)....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
(26,001 posts)n/t
wolfie001
(2,270 posts)He was so on the sidelines during Occupy Wall Street........sigh..........
frylock
(34,825 posts)he was clearly unwilling to fight for those votes.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)are for it is all the evidence anyone needs to be against it.
wolfie001
(2,270 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Utterly mind boggling.
Triana
(22,666 posts)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
(6,145 posts)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
(19,326 posts)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
(17,997 posts)Frankly, everyone should listen to Sanders on trade.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)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
(17,997 posts)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
(19,326 posts)I guess it's all in how you look at it.
marym625
(17,997 posts)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
(22,666 posts)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
(19,326 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Uhm, shall we say for conversations sake, Democrats, think about how bad this is, nothing will.
wolfie001
(2,270 posts).........oh yeah, SHIT!!!!!!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)I KNOW his constituents are against it.
Smdh
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)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
(6,323 posts)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
(45,984 posts)And he'd be the best Republican president since Bill Clinton.
cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)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.