Same Republicans who criticized Obama for lack of transparency now trying to push secretive TPP trade deal
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Politics in America often makes for strange bedfellows, and that is once again proving to be the case regarding the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, a “trade” deal that is a cornerstone of President Obama’s second term.
Enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact involving a dozen or so countries including the U.S., Mexico and Japan, in which liberal Democrats once aligned lock-step with Obama on most other issues now oppose him vehemently.
In their stead have stepped Republicans, believe it or not, who are now (mostly) in lock-step supporting Obama (some for the very first time) in his pursuit of fast-track trade authority so he can ram through TPP without senators or congressmen ever getting an opportunity to change or amend it in any way.
And they are being asked to support it essentially blindly, because the Obama Administration has refused to make details of the deal — which has been under negotiation now for about a decade — public.
Talk about strange bedfellows and irony: The last time this happened, it was Obama and Democrats — epitomized by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. — urging passage of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) without first knowing what was it in it.
“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,” was what Pelosi said at the time.
And now, so it is with TPP. But Obama doesn’t have his Democrats on board this time around.
Obama claiming high ground, but his record of dishonesty precedes him
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