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Scott Walker Pushes Obamatrade On Eve Of Vote
by Matthew Boyle 11 Jun 2015
Despite staying largely silent on the issue—he’s quietly supported it for weeks, but hasn’t said anything at all in quite a long time—Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker crossed most conservatives by coming out in support of Obamatrade on Thursday evening in an interview with Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin.

Walker, Bloomberg’s Halperin and John McCormick wrote, “expressed agreement with President Barack Obama on the pressing issue of fast-track trade legislation.”
“Walker said he supports giving Obama the authority to submit trade agreements to Congress for an expedited, up-or-down vote without amendments,” they wrote, before quoting Walker himself.
“If we don’t go down this path, we’re going to be at a competitive disadvantage, and so I think it just makes sense,” Walker said.

“At the same time, like many Republicans who support granting the trade authority recent past presidents have had, Walker said the deal would allow the Republican-controlled Congress to review Obama’s actions,” the Bloomberg reporters wrote.
“If this president were to give them a bad deal, they should hold him accountable and vote it down,” Walker added. “They have every right to do that under the proposal.”
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Walker didn’t in this interview—at least not in the part that Bloomberg published—discuss whether or not he believes it’s acceptable for the president to continue keeping the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) portion of Obamatrade that Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) would fast track hidden from the American people in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in a secret room.

Since Walker is not a member of Congress, there is no way he could have read the text of the deal before making these comments. He also didn’t discuss what he thinks about the fact that not even members of Congress are allowed to read the even-more-secretive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) or Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) deals, which are among the other deals that would be fast-tracked by Obamatrade if TPA passes the House of Representatives on Friday, despite the fact nobody—including Walker—knows what’s in those deals.

Pat Buchanan

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/patrick-j-buchanan/imperial-overstech/

But it was in the Middle East that the most costly blunders were committed. Believing liberal democracy to be the wave of the future, that all peoples, given the chance, would embrace it, we invaded Iraq, occupied Afghanistan and overthrew the dictator of Libya.

So doing, we unleashed the demons of Islamic fanaticism, tribalism, and a Sunni-Shiite sectarian war now raging from North Africa to the Near East.

Yet though America’s relative economic and military power today is not what it was in 1992, our commitments are greater.

We are now obligated to defend Eastern Europe and the Baltic republics against a resurgent Russia, South Korea against the North, Japan and the Philippines against a surging China. We bomb jihadists daily in Iraq and Syria, support a Saudi air war in Yemen, and sustain Kabul with 10,000 U.S. troops in its war with the Taliban. Our special forces are all over the Middle East and Africa.

And if the neocons get back into power in 2017, U.S. arms will start flowing to Kiev, that war will explode, and the Tomahawks and B-2s will be on the way to Iran.

I WAS a Cruz supporter. No longer.


DMc

I doubt that.

Is that akin to the pos that got elected in '08 that's bringin' the end of the USA?

That's what the libbies thought of Reagan too.. I'd take that over the quivering mass of jelly that we now have in DC..

Pacifists lose - period.. People (or a country) can get poked only so long before the poking comes back with relish..

Let's see, Bristoe AND SACharlie don't like him....

On this thread I have posted quotes from two politicians, Cruz and Walker, who support this legislation maybe without reading the bill.
There are both potential upsides and potential downsides, good and bad, in these trade agreements. Let the debates begin...out in the open, in full view of the voting public. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

Here are the words of a politician who wants them to first read the damn thing:
6/12/15 The secretive, hugely impacting Obamatrade deal is another behind-closed-doors fast-tracked D.C. deal that screams "don’t pass it ’til we know what’s in it!"
Yet politicians are going along to get along, supporting Obama’s pet project while ignoring the public’s right to know what’s in this monumental international trade deal.
This, despite the President’s track record proving he hasn’t got it in him to put American workers first.

If Congress hands this secretive deal to Obama on a silver platter, admitting to not even reading it first, then shame on us for letting another one slide.
This is fast-tracked, friends. Like Obamacare, when we sounded warning bells but too many were too busy to pressure their employees (your elected politicians) to do the right thing and learn it first.

Since when is Congress able to halt any bullying administration’s fast-track deals? They never have before. Didn’t we learn last time?
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– Sarah Palin

Exactly. Like nobody's ever seen bitsches that drive crazy. Then they try to pin everything on him and make a big deal out of it. Gimme a ph uggen break.

Go whaach yo baby momma when she comes plowin' into yo driveway with all the hit and run's hangin' off the side, azz clown.