Third Way's Jim Kessler tweets Trade Deal back on floor in 7 to 10 days.

[madfloridian]

He tweets it over and over. Here is his tweet to the National Journal.

Jim Kessler @ThirdWayKessler · 20h 20 hours ago

.@nationaljournal This bill is back on the floor in 7 to 10 days. Dems trying to win concessions on must move legislation.

And he goes with the scare tactic about China which we have been hearing a lot.

Jim Kessler @ThirdWayKessler · 16h 16 hours ago

.@HorsleyScott @nprnews Well, China will be writing those rules if we don't pass #tpa

Kessler's the one who recently made his position clear about we the people of the party who are fighting back against the secretive trade deal.

The Trade Deal Tearing the Dems Apart

Obama continued his war on Warren through the weekend, reminding Democrats that she doesn’t walk on water, that she’s a politician. Warren, he insists, is fighting an old fight going back to NAFTA, a free trade agreement signed by President Clinton in 1994.

“He should have done this long ago,” says Jim Kessler, a founder of Third Way, a centrist Democratic group that is pro-trade. “He’s allowed Democrats to take a two-by-four to his signature economic achievement of his second term, which is to expand exports in the biggest market of the world, Asia. He needed to treat these attacks on it as though Ted Cruz were making them. Instead, he made it feel like if you’re a Democrat you can say anything and he’s not going to care.”

He's "allowed" us to do it? Catch that word allowed?

I am a Democrat, and I feel I don't need to run what I say by Third Way Kessler or the president.

And he's the one who says ISDS is no big deal at all.

ISDS allows companies to sue host countries in special ad hoc tribunes. Phillip Morris is currently using ISDS to challenge regulations in foreign countries on packaging cigarettes with prominent health warnings that might discourage sales. Corporations have won in other countries, but never in the United States. “The ISDS argument borders on silly,” says Kessler. “We’ve never lost a case and nothing will happen to Dodd-Frank.” Warren’s argument is “as off-base as death panels,” he says, a comparison that Obama also makes.

[Egnever]

1. He is right

It will be back on the floor in 7-10 days.

[think]

3. McConnell will make sure that it is....

[Robbins]

4. Reid and schumer will help him

the country is screwed except for 1%

[Robbins]

2. How about

we worry about the people in this country over what China may or may not do?

[Hoyt]

6. China actually has a lot to do with people in this country.

[leftofcool]

5. Guaranteed to be back soon and pass!

[RoccoR5955]

36. Put your money where your mouth is

and bet on it!

[octoberlib]

7. Here's an example of ISDS in action

Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals

A Salvadoran delegation is in Canada this week to warn of how investor provisions threaten democracy, public health, and environment


In a case illustrating the dangers of corporate-friendly provisions buried in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret tribunal is on the brink of issuing a ruling any day that that could force the Central American country of El Salvador to pay $301 million to a Canadian-Australian gold-mining firm.El Salvador's government says the mining company never complied with the minimum legal requirements for obtaining a permit. In addition, there are serious concerns about the social and environmental impacts of mining in a nation where more than 90 percent of the surface water supply is already contaminated, and more than 50 percent of the 6.3 million people depend on one fragile watershed for drinking water.


OceanaGold, which purchased the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining in 2013, is suing El Salvador—the most water-stressed country in the region—for an amount equivalent to 5 percent of its gross domestic product for refusing to grant it a permit to put a gold mine into operation.




But in the wake of the permit rejection—and after the first of three successive Salvadoran Presidents committed to an effective moratorium on new mining projects—Pacific Rim filed a lawsuit in 2009 before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a little-known World Bank-based tribunal.

Since purchasing Pacific Rim in 2013, Australia's OceanaGold has "stubbornly continued with the case," according to a press release from MiningWatch Canada. The company claims that under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, it has the right to sue the Salvadoran government for passing a law that threatens its bottom line. The ICSID is poised to issue its ruling sometime in 2015.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/11/amid-tpp-fight-el-salvador-mining-case-shows-danger-corporate-tribunals


"As the TTIP and TPP negotiations continue, Pacific Rim vs. El Salvador should remind us not to privilege foreign investors to the detriment of the national—or global—good."
—Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies

[Robbins]

8. same could happen here

if TPP is passed.

[octoberlib]

11. Of course. It's also happening in Canada and Australia.

[WillyT]

9. Thank You For That !!!

[octoberlib]

12. WillyT

[madfloridian]

16. Thanks for the link.

Kessler should not be saying we never lost and never will. One never knows.

[WillyT]

10. K & R !!!

[tritsofme]

13. Yesterday's Senate vote was only a road bump.

TPA will pass the Senate with broad bipartisan support. The real fight will be in the House.

[Robbins]

14. Bipartisan ha!

There is only one party anymore.The corporate party.

time we all stop falling for the public campagin with some exceptions there isn't any different between GOP and Dems anymore.

It took TPP to finally show me for sure that.I was complete sucker for supporting Obama.so was all the others against iraq as well
as unions since he is going to help kill unions with TPP.

[L0oniX]

24. Omnipartisan?

[nationalize the fed]

26. Buy-Partisan

[Enthusiast]

31. Exactly.

[madfloridian]

15. What Kessler really means: Silly old Democrats, they think they actually matter.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. Abusing government office to ram-rod programs that undermine individual rights

has a long tradition. One that progressives would like to break, and I guess it begins by calling Kessler out for his dismissive attitude. It's all too common around my local area. Once they get into office they think they have the right to breach their fiduciary responsibilities if they can come up with an elevator pitch that ends with the words, "for the good of the community." And it never, never fails that those shadow programs always benefit the same people, and undermine the rights of everyone else.

[madfloridian]

18. If I had any doubt at all about what TPP means to average people...Kessler's remarks

just clarified it all.

Like how dare we question, how dare the president "allow" us to speak out against Third Way plans.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. Exactly. That dismissive, arrogant, narcissitic attitude should sound off alarms to any

thinking person.

[rhett o rick]

27. I think Pres Obama's remarks sealed it. We know who Kessler is, but a

Democratic president deriding the progressives of our party. Not that it's a surprise.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. He erected the China bogeyman to back up his attack on the liberal Democrats.

What next? Is he going to claim the opponents are on Beijing's payroll?

[madfloridian]

20. Yep, just follow the talking points back to the policy maker think tanks.

They love to bait those of us who don't fall in line. They have been doing it since the late 80s, and they don't care if it angers us.

Maybe they really really don't need us anymore.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Or, vice-versa.

[marym625]

22. Same scare tactics as used for NAFTA

Money honey. And none for the bottom 90%

[L0oniX]

23. Follow the money - Mike Gravel

[kentuck]

28. Democrats can look for a fair deal?

Keep us informed.

[madfloridian]

29. Dead wrong, Jim. It only took one day.

Done deal.

[Enthusiast]

30. Kicked and recommended! Third Way is not centrist.

[blackspade]

32. Kessler is an idiot.

A bought one.

[appalachiablue]

33. K & R

[Octafish]

34. Pete Peterson Wins!

Again.

[madfloridian]

35. Of course he does. I think we have all known it was a done deal from the start.

Guess the hell who runs our country now? Not us, for sure.

[sabrina 1]

37. Third Way Kessler used that same kind of condescending language towards Elizabeth Warren

when he made the mistake of co-authoring his now infamous attack on her in the WSJ.

He needed to treat these attacks on it as though Ted Cruz were making them.

This is where all the attacks on the Left of the party have been coming from.

Starting around 2004 was when I first noticed them on 'liberal' forums.

'Reality based world'
'ponies'
'pet issues' (meaning minority rights and women's rights, which 'they' were not going to allow to cause them to lose)
'extreme left'
'Professional Left' - that's one of their favorites.

Their goal is to demean democrats, to take over this party to push their Wall St agenda and get rid of those in the party who are a threat to those plans.

Watch for the talking points, they are not hard to find.

[bullwinkle428]

38. Will the smoking gun come in the form of a financial mushroom cloud?