News flash: A pairing of the isolationistic far left and far right will not stop the TPP from being

[RB TexLa]

signed.

It will be signed and become reality.

But the opposition to it does provide something to laugh at.

[ret5hd]

1. I don't troll with you.

[polichick]

2. Is the agreement funny too - or just the idea that people could have an impact?

[laundry_queen]

19. I guess he also finds it funny all those people losing their jobs

hardy. har. har.

[Enrique]

3. what is funny about the opposition to TPP?

[Skip Intro]

4. My question also. OP?

[Lasher]

12. RB has resorted to a cryptic drive-by.

He's back after having licked his wounds from that drubbing last month.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023892015

[Rex]

14. Oh yeah that was a thing of beauty.

He should have left it unedited. Just reworded gibberish for the Far Left and the Far Right meeting in the Legion of Doom hallways to discuss the otherthrow of the country.




We must stop Obamacare! And world peace!

[JaneyVee]

5. Corporate control of our govt is rarely funny.

[DJ13]

6. Is it isolationism to oppose international fascism?

[salin]

7. Do tell, RB TexLa what you find to be so beneficial to people

who are not executives at large corporations, that we should align with them and laugh at all of those who publicly object?

[dionysus]

8. i don't be a heartless android with you.

[GoneOffShore]

9. 16K posts and still Borging.

[boomersense]

10. Yep. The only way the fascists on both sides of the aisle can stop money

drains without putting themselves in a bad light is to pass TPP and have it under the financial management section cut entitlements and other such things. Fast track may not pass but if it is done stealthily on slow track it will eventually win. The Neocons didn't come this far from 911 to be stopped by a little resistance. Be a whole different world. If it takes them until 2016 when they will crash the economy again, then that's what they'll do. Safe Harbors will be few and far between. And who will be TTP's greatest facillitator? Gee, I wonder.

[OnyxCollie]

11. Pragmatism on display.

AKA conservative bootlicking, neoliberal style

[Kali]

13. that is OK

I am sure there is chuckling at the shitty trolling that occurs around here too.

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. Here is a reality check: You're the fringe - not the American people

Like the advocates of "entitlement reform" cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits - The advocates of corporate trade agreements live in an alternative universe that seems to think that their agenda which is supported by only a tiny minority of the population is somehow or other the mainstream while the overwhelming majority of ordinary Americans are the fringe.

[Arcanetrance]

16. Newsflash: sitting back and taking it isn't an option

What you call the far left at one point was just considered the normal base of the Democratic party.

[PowerToThePeople]

17. Makes me want to dance

(Not really)

[liberal_at_heart]

18. trashing thread.

[BelgianMadCow]

20. thanks for pointing out the option

there's a first for everything

[solarhydrocan]

21. "isolationistic" for wanting to keep jobs and Sovereignty .

No one but the jobless seem to care anymore anyway.

"The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican...."

----Barack Obama

Isolationism does not mean what some want it to.

[KG]

22. why is a poster who never expresses a progressive notion still here after 10 years?

[Enrique]

33. a high-functioning troll

[treestar]

23. OK finally another side but also

low on detail.

What is the benefit of it?

[Fumesucker]

24. Much as it pains me to agree with you

I too think the TPP is a done deal.

[bemildred]

25. Yep, it's the outraged middle that will stop it. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

26. It's toast.

151 Democrats and some Republicans in the House have demanded that fast track status be removed. It's odds of succeeding without secrecy and fast track are nil.

[cali]

27. Good fucking grief.

Want to explain why you support the TPP?

[Brewinblue]

28. Why are you still alive on DU?

Shouldn't you be writing editorials for the WSJ?

[cali]

29. hit and run- as is the OP's habit.

[marmar]

30. Cryptic nonsense.

[Brickbat]

31. C'mon, you can do better than that.

You're getting lazy.

[pampango]

32. Have to disagree. The conservative base has always opposed trade and immigration. They still do.

The odds are high that the House will not pass fast track authority and no trade agreement has passed without it. Neither will TPP. The House barely approved fast track for Bush in 2002 when he was popular with his base and the House was republican.

The tea party effectively controls the House. They hate Obama and do not trust him (to put it mildly). They are afraid that provisions on environmental standards and labor rights will be included - two issues that are anathema to them. By denying Obama fast track, the House can delete any liberal provisions on labor and climate change - areas where corporate and tea party republicans can agree to hate.