Tea Party Joins Liberals in Push Against Fast-Track Trade

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/tea-party-joins-liberals-in-push-against-fast-track-trade.html

U.S. lawmakers on opposite ends of the political spectrum are objecting to putting trade deals on a fast track for congressional approval, threatening one of the business community’s top priorities.

A group of House Democrats, led by Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and George Miller of California, today will announce their opposition to renewal of the president’s so-called fast-track trade negotiating authority that they say robs lawmakers of the power to alter deals. Yesterday, 22 House Republicans, including some aligned with the small-government Tea Party movement, sent President Barack Obama a letter saying they won’t give ground on being able to change trade pacts.

The bipartisan objections complicate the efforts of Obama who, with the backing of business groups such as the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is attempting to negotiate two of the largest trade deals in history with Europe and the Pacific region.

“We used to have a bipartisan coalition for free trade, but both parties now have robust elements that for different reasons challenge trade promotion authority, and it makes things complicated for those who want these trade deals,” said Stu Rothenberg, editor of the Washington-based nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report.

[scheming daemons]

1. if the Tea Party agreed with me, i would re-evaluate my position

Maybe liberals are wrong here.

[iemitsu]

2. Maybe Obama and those, who wish to further

erode our sovereignty are wrong.

[scheming daemons]

3. so the tea party is correct?

Like I said... if the tea party agrees with me, it is time to re evaluate my position.

[iemitsu]

4. That's your prerogative but just because you usually

disagree with someone or a group does not mean you'll always disagree.

[Oilwellian]

8. Really?

Can you direct us to any thread where you voiced opposition to this piece of shit trade deal? Thanks in advance!

[scheming daemons]

9. can you point to any thread where I supported?

Nope.

I haven't posted on the subject at all.

I don't have enough knowledge of it to comment one way or the other.

My general feeling is the TPP is not a good thing. But if the tea party hates it, maybe I need to learn more.

[Oilwellian]

10. I didn't think so n/t

[nxylas]

12. So you let Fox News do your thinking for you?

Just like a teabagger, except that instead of blindly agreeing with them, you blindly disagree.

[RedstDem]

13. a broken clock gets it right sometimes

who cares if they're tea bangers, if they can help stop this rip off.

[NuclearDem]

16. If my party leadership supports the biggest corporate coup d'état since Citizens United

The line between friend and foe would get a lot more blurry for me too.

[Myrina]

17. ^^ this ^^

n/t

[G_j]

5. I have heard that some of them

believe water is wet.

[Scuba]

6. They actually do agree with libs on lots of things, but they have been told otherwise.

Medicare and Social Security are just two examples.

[starroute]

11. These deals have something in them to offend everyone

The Tea Party types are unhappy because they violation national sovereignty. The liberals are unhappy because they do so in order to overturn environmental and labor rights. Comes out to the same thing in the end.

The real point may be that nobody benefits from these deals except the corporations -- and if they Tea Party is breaking ranks over that, it can only be a good thing.

[LuvNewcastle]

14. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.

[frylock]

18. fortunately, most people here are intelligent enough to not engage in such binary thinking

[Mass]

7. Something tells me that, this time., Boehner will not listen to the Tea Party.

[adavid]

15. Is this article .....

talking about the travesty known as the TPP, or Trans Pacific Partnership?