Only two Senate Republicans from the entire conference of 54 members have admitted they read the details of President Barack Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal as of this time.
With the first votes on the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track TPP just days away, it’s looking like Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expects Americans to accept former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)’s Obamacare logic for the trade deal: you have to pass it to find out what’s in it.
“If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door,” Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere wrote earlier this week. “If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving. And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.”
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Does Rosetta Stone have a Learn to speak Chinese package?... these sellouts are carving up what is left
ReplyDeleteCorporate Coup d'Etat
ReplyDeleteCongress has the responsibility to ratify treaties but they're not protesting too hard about not being able to read this one. Their corporate masters must be proud.
The fact that this 'trade agreement' is so secretive should be reason enough for ANY people's representative to vote against it. Yet, I fear the GOP is going to pass it., that will be the end of free America.
ReplyDeleteThis 'treaty' will absolutely cripple the ordinary family here in the USA.
"If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs."
And, that's from just ONE of the multiple chapters contained in this death certificate for America.
Andy Harris, have you read it? We can't expect Cardin or Mikulski to do anything but sniff Obama's butthole on this, but I would hope we Marylanders would have at least one critical eye on the package?
ReplyDeleteWhat say you?