Fast track backlash / TPP

[Panich52]

Fast-Track Backlash

Left livid at Sen. Ron Wyden for striking deal on fast-track.

Politico: "Wyden has been hounded at home by union groups and other opponents of the trade bill ... Why has Wyden put up with all the heat? His home state is heavily dependent on exports, particularly to Asia ... Hatch did ultimately agree to many of Wyden's 'smart track' proposals [including] a new requirement that the White House publish the full text of trade pact 60 days before signing it ... But critics remain unsatisfied. They say the final provision for potentially stripping fast track from a trade agreement was too weak to make a significant difference."
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/how-ron-wyden-became-the-scourge-of-the-left-on-trade-117101.html?hp=b1_c1


NY AG argues TPP will "gut state laws" in Politico Magazine:

"One provision of TPP would create an entirely separate system of justice: special tribunals to hear and decide claims by foreign investors that their corporate interests are being harmed by a nation that is part of the agreement ... it is particularly worrisome to those of us in states, such as New York, with robust laws that protect the public welfare ..."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/trans-pacific-partnership-state-laws-117127.html?hp=m1#.VTRSVmTBzGc


MORNING MESSAGE
Dave Johnson
A Look At The Fast Track Bill Shows It’s The Wrong Thing To Do

Though it was announced that this year’s fast track bill was the result of a “deal” between Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) the 2015 bill is nearly identical to the 2014 bill that died in Congress without support for a vote. ... It is unclear from this comparison why the “negotiations” between Hatch and Wyden took so long, and what Wyden got that enabled him to put his name on it, enabling the bill to be sold as “bipartisan.” ... If you don't want to get mired in the wording and details of the fast track bill, here is a shortcut to deciding if you are for it or against it.

http://ourfuture.org/20150420/a-look-at-the-fast-track-bill-shows-its-the-wrong-thing-to-do?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak

[GoneFishin]

1. "...requirement that the White House publish the full text of trade pact 60 days before signing it "

Big goddamned deal. How does that give the public any chance to affect the outcome?

They are trying to tweak this TPP turd hoping that we won't notice that it is still a turd.

Manipulative assholes.

[Populist_Prole]

3. Unreal, isn't it?

It's clear that they know it won't pass if it's examined the way it should be.

Anybody pushing anything that desperately and quickly has to be suspect.

[GoneFishin]

6. I have seen that "hurry, there's no time to read the fine print, read it later" scam used in real

life. Anybody who isn't crapping their pants over TPP is either very rich or very dim.

[Populist_Prole]

7. Well put

"Anybody who isn't crapping their pants over TPP is either very rich or very dim."

Or irrationally loyal, or on the take.

[GoneFishin]

8. Yep.

[GoneFishin]

2. '... and what Wyden got that enabled him to put his name on it,

enabling the bill to be sold as “bipartisan.”'

I guess we will have to wait and see who he goes to work for when he leaves the Senate.

[KoKo]

4. Bloomberg Business Reporter said today in discussion that Wyden

despite facing protests in his home state, honestly feels that TPP will be good for the State of Oregon's trade with the Pacific Rim, but it was a difficult decision for him.

[GoneFishin]

5. He has to say something, no matter what he believes. So considering the results of NAFTA, I don't

believe him.