The President's Unseemly Attacks On Progressives DEFY LOGIC

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165. Only the Senate Resolution of the draft is available. It's in a link in this article:

Elizabeth Warren is Not Telling the Truth About The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal

...When Senator Warren calls TPP a “top secret” deal, she’s not telling you the truth. Any member of Congress can see it now, and before Congress votes on it, the final deal will be posted online for 60 days. What we can see now is the USTR summary of the deal, which, granted, isn’t the deal, but it isn’t nothing.

Finally, when Senator Warren says that the TPA bill leaves us “virtually no ability to stop it from the Senate or the House,” or concern-trolls about “fixing” a final deal through an amendments process that TPA shuts off, she’s not telling you the truth. The final deal, after its 60-day public review period, will receive an up-or-down vote, which means Congress can quite easily stop the deal. It just means that a minority in Congress can’t obstruct the deal. Ditto the amendments, which would not be a way to “fix” a final deal since the other 11 nations involved would also insist on that authority, irreparably gumming up the negotiations. Amendments, in this case, are a way to obstruct a final deal. See “nuclear deal, Iran” once again.

So, Elizabeth Warren may be right, TPP could end up being a horrible deal, and she’s right not to trust Republican majorities in both chambers to put a stop to a bad deal, but what she’s doing right now is eroding any trust Democrats ought to have in her. President Obama, on the other hand, has been open and honest about what he expects to be in the final deal, which we will all get to see and verify before anyone votes on it.

In the end, though, it boils down to trust. There will be a TPP with or without us*, and if you’re going to trust anyone to get us a good deal, it should be the person who is telling you the truth now, not the one who is nakedly deceiving you.

When ones goes to the link I underlined in the first paragraph I posted here, USTR summary of the deal it automatically uploads a 113 page PDF to your computer. Don't worry, it's not a virus or anything:

http://thedailybanter.com/2015/04/elizabeth-warren-is-not-telling-the-truth-about-the-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal/

*Because the other nations have been working on this for dozen years. It's like the Iran treaty the GOP tried to scuttle, where the UK, China, Russia, France and the rest were going to have that deal no matter what. And make us look like idiots.

It also goes into the start of the bogus little 'he's a sexist meme' going around and since being expanded upon. It comes from MSM, owned by billionaires, and RFing, like Death, never takes a holiday.

Hey, there an election to steal, and 'manufactured consent' by putting out outrages, one after another, gives the GOP an alternative reality to push that whoever our candidates in 2016, Democrats hated them, so that means the GOP really will win the presidency in 2016.

Hasn't Obama invaded Texas yet? That one didn't have much staying power. But it was cool while it lasted.

Crashed the Economy? Well, not yet, but you know he wants to.

Declared WW3 or declared thermonuclear war on Russia? Well, apparently not.

Deported all the Muslims or jailed all the Patriots? Sure he'll get around to it.

Signed KXL? Well, no, and after stalling for his entire term of office under grave political threats, he vetoed it when it came up to his dek, but don't let that get in the way of a damned good shit storm. Go, drama!

Thrown grandma off a cliff? Uh, no, that's Paul Ryan's gig.

Stolen the right to vote? Uh, that's not his deal, either.

Made being gay and owning guns illegal? Any day now, folks, any day. It's a-coming.

And privatized Social Security? Well no, and hell no.

Let the entire government shut down just for the hell of it? See Cruz, Paul, Cornyn. Even if you make a scrabble word of their names, still won't spell Obama.

Oh, well, there's always the next poutrage du jour!





(BTW, thanks for the update, I am just blown away. I bow to you, Sir, I bow! And you know I say that sincerely.)