List of the Republican ‘Democrats’ Who Fight For Obama's Secret Trade Deals & Wall Street

[KoKo]

A group of Republican "Democrats," who have organized themselves under the moniker "New Democrat Coalition," are trying to salvage the two secret international trade deals -- one with the Pacific countries, and the other with the Atlantic countries -- that President Obama (through former Citibank executive and now Obama's U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman) has tried to negotiate on behalf of international mega-corporations so as to override the laws of the U.S. and the other participating nations.

Republicans in Congress want these deals to be passed, and so are staying quiet about the matter, but most Democrats oppose the deals. As The New York Times headlined about the issue, on January 31st, "Obama and G.O.P. Facing Opposition to Trade Pacts."

Now that President Obama no longer needs to pretend to be a progressive in order to retain his Democratic voting base for another election (since he has already had his last election, in 2012), he can finally afford to be more forward about his actual conservatism, and so he is increasingly allying publicly with Republicans on Capitol Hill, against Democrats there. They don’t like it.

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Democrats in Congress are quietly appalled. Might the TPP agreement end up being passed by a “Democratic” President, with Republicans in Congress, and against almost solid opposition from congressional Democrats?

By now, this storyline seems grimly familiar. Rawstory.com bannered “U.S. Trade Proposal Would Let Corporations Overrule Laws,” and Stephen C. Webster noted that the draft language that Obama’s man Kirk had been hiding from lawmakers “proposes an independent dispute arbitration process that would be empowered to supersede domestic laws or regulatory actions in member states.” Public Citizen bannered “Controversial Trade Pact Text Leaked,” and reported that, “U.S. negotiators are alone in seeking to expand this extra-judicial enforcement system.” None of the other member-states wanted the extreme subordination of national sovereignty to international corporations that Obama was pushing for on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other Republican interest-groups.

Among the leaders in the New Democrat Coalition is Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the friend of Hillary Clinton whom President Obama made the head of the Democratic National Committee. If one looks at the membership of the NDC, it's very close to being the same list as the members of Congress who are owned by Wall Street.

Here, then, are the Democrats in the House who are not just Members of the NDC, but owned by Wall Street (listed alphabetically by state):

Terri Sewell, Ron Barber, Ami Bera, Loretta Sanchez, Juan Vargas, Scott Peters, Jared Polis, Ed Perlmutter, James Himes, Elizabeth Esty, John Carney, Patrick Murphy, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Garcia, John Barrow, David Scott, Colleen Hanabusa, Mike Quigley, Brad Schneider, Bill Foster, Cedric Richmond, John Delaney, Gary Peters, Greg Meeks, Eliot Engel, Sean Maloney, Carolyn McCarthy, Bill Owens, Dan Maffei, Mike McIntyre, Jim Clyburn, Jim Cooper, Jim Moran, Gerald Connolly, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Denny Heck, Ron Kind.

Here are the Republicans in the House who are not owned by Wall Street:

Tom Massie, Walter Jones, and John Duncan. That’s all, just 3.

If your representative in Congress is a Democrat who is not on that list, the person is probably honest. If your representative is a Republican other than the three who were listed, he or she is clearly dishonest, for the reason indicated.

Regarding the U.S. Senate, the sellout-to-Wall-Street bill, H.R. 992, passed with almost solid Republican support in the House, but Harry Reid refused even to bring it up in the Democratically controlled Senate. Probably the only Democratic Senators who would have voted for it were Max Baucus and Dianne Feinstein, but we'll never get to know, since there was no vote on it.


Published on Thursday, February 13, 2014 by Common Dreams
A List of the Republican ‘Democrats’ Who Fight For Obama's Secret Trade Deals, And For Wall Street
by Eric Zuesse

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[Mass]

1. The three republicans listed here may not be owned by Wall Street (though this is debatable), but

they are EXTREMELY dangerous to American workers. They do not believe that the government should intervene in anything: no food stamps, no healthcare, no unemployment insurance at all, ....

So, it is BEYOND ridiculous to use them as good example of anything. I take any of the list that is sold to Wall Street as my congressman way before I take THOSE THREE DANGEROUS INDIVIDUALS,

I disagree with TPP, but seriously, this analysis should discredit Zuesse forever.

[Armstead]

3. Its the actions not the labels that matter

I don't know -- or really care about those three Republicans.

It's the corporate Trojan Horse Democrats that bother me. We already have one party that's bought and sold by Big Money. Do we really need two?

[Mass]

5. Using their names is stupid. They do not believe in government, so they certainly disagree with

treaties. Think Rand Paul in worse.

So, you may not care, but the fact that the author either does not know or chooses to ignore this tells me all I have to know. Not interested in what he thinks.

For the rest, I agree, but this will not prevent me to say what I think of this person.

[Armstead]

8. Well we all know what Republicans are

I think it's also important to know who Democrats are too, for better and worse.

One way is to know who's backing them financially, and what policies they support and why.

Feel free to not like that author, but I don't think it's good to shoot the messenger.

[JoePhilly]

2. "Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the friend of Hillary Clinton " ... GASP!!!!

And where is my ...

[Armstead]

4. Clever, but you avoud the point.

You think its good to have a Democratic Party that's on the Payroll?

[JoePhilly]

6. The news was so "grim" I almost lost the will to live.

I'm sorry, but I can't take commondreams seriously.

Every story they publish that makes it to DU is the end of the world ... brought on by the evil President Obama and his replublican-democrat minions. Bastards!!

I mean, any news story or article is going to have some silliness, I get that, you simply set that aside and try to find the real facts.

But commondreams piles such an endless stream of GASPY subjective elements into each story, its impossible to read without laughing.

And I really did laugh when I read the line about Schultz being friends with Hillary. Oh Nooo!!!!

Its hilarious.

[Armstead]

7. Have you ever thought of adopting Alfred E. Newman as your mascot?

"What Me Worry?"

[KoKo]

9. This Long Time DU'er Remembers when we Cared about our Environment

and we could discuss and give differing reports but those reports never seemed like they were from FAUX NEW...but, Peer Reviewed Scientists reporting findings that in decades past..would have caused Attention from the Public.

Interesting times these days. One has to wade through so much disinfo that by the time one has done that there's almost a "defeatist" atmosphere.

Whatever... There are those of us who still try to read Science and note the latest reports and try to keep posting in ways we can to wake folks up.

Just saying......