Showing posts with label ObamaTrade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ObamaTrade. Show all posts

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S.—and the West as a whole—has lost the diplomatic touch. These countries began to negotiate for symbolism, not substance. From the Kyoto Protocol to the U.N.’s human rights agreements, negotiation became about looking good, not doing good.



Like unhappy families, bad agreements are each bad in their own way. And of course there are degrees of badness: no trade deal, no matter how implausibly dreadful, could be worse than a nuclear deal gone wrong. But bad agreements do have a few features in common.

The major postwar agreements—from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the North Atlantic Treaty that created NATO—stood the test of time because they were good deals that met real needs. They were serious, clear, and substantial, and they benefited everyone....

It might be that all of this is just a case of bad diplomacy producing bad agreements, of which there have been many since 1989. But note the final thing that these agreements have in common: they will tie the hands of the U.S. (and the U.K.) long after Obama has left office.
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

House grants Obama fast-track powers in re-do of last week's failed vote









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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Top Democrat: Obama has 'abandoned' effort to get Dems on trade deal...



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45 times Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes







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Friday, June 12, 2015

Why America hates the GOP-Obamatrade deal

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Constitutional conservatives don’t like it. Trade unions abhor it. Obama critics hate it. Environmentalists despise it.

Outside the Beltway bubble, a broad coalition of voters from the left, right and center opposes the mega-trade deal getting rammed through Congress this week by the Republican establishment on behalf of the White House. Here’s why.

The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out American sovereignty. Their so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission will have sweeping authority over trade, immigration, environmental, labor and commerce regulations.

As alert watchdogs U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest and U.S. Rep Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., warn: “By adopting fast-track, Congress would be formally authorizing the President to finalize the creation of this Pacific Union and will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have agreed to give up its treaty powers. … In effect, one of the most sweeping international agreements seen in years will be given less legislative scrutiny and process than a Post Office reform bill.”

The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out legislative transparency. ...



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Dems at the caucus today said Obama turned them off























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Paul Ryan: "Voting 'yes' on trade won't give Obama carte blanche"











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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Carly Fiorina blasts ObamaTrade secrecy











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US House Gearing up to Grant President Obama 'Fast-Track' Authority for Highly Secret Trade Deal

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Top Nine Myths About Trade Promotion Authority And The Trans-Pacific Partnership



The current debate over Trade Promotion Authority proves, once again, that the classic description of the anti-globalization movement—as “largely the well-intentioned but ill-informed being led around by the ill-intentioned and well informed”—still holds true. Despite the tireless efforts of trade policy experts to explain why TPA and the U.S. trade agreements it’s intended to facilitate are, while imperfect, not a secret corporatist plot to usurp the U.S. Constitution and install global government, myths and half-truths continue to infect traditional and social media outlets.

Because these myths—originating with the same old anti-trade bedfellows that have been with us for decades—have duped a lot of good folks who are otherwise predisposed to support liberty and free markets (including some in Congress), and because the House of Representatives is poised to vote on TPA in the coming days, here is one last debunking of the top nine myths about TPA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and U.S. free-trade agreements (FTAs) more broadly.

◼ Myth 1: TPA and U.S. FTAs are unconstitutional and undemocratic!
◼ Myth 2: TPA grants the president new and unlimited powers!
◼ Myth 3: TPA sets legally binding congressional rules for U.S. trade negotiations!
◼ Myth 4: Once TPA is approved, Congress will be powerless to stop TPP or other FTAs!
◼ Myth 5: TPP is being negotiated via a dangerous and unprecedented level of secrecy!
◼ Myth 6: FTAs, completed via TPA, undermine U.S. sovereignty!
◼ Myth 7: TPP is a secret backdoor for a parade of horribles (and TPA lets that happen)!
◼ Myth 8: FTAs (and free trade generally) benefit large corporations at the expense of working people!
◼ Myth 9: TPA doesn’t matter!

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

REPUBLICANS RUSH OBAMATRADE BEFORE PUBLIC READS IT





















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Obamatrade Support Falling Apart In House Despite Leadership Push

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