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bigtree

(85,984 posts) Tue May 12, 2015, 03:52 PM May 2015

Martin O'Malley: TPP Stalled Today, "Thanks to Your Voice"

Martin O'Malley @GovernorOMalley · 4m 4 minutes ago

TPP did not move forward today thanks to your voice & the Senators who stood up. We must demand better & stop #TPP.

Working America ?@WorkingAmerica 4m4 minutes ago
BREAKING: Fast track procedural vote fails in Senate, 53-45. #StopFastTrack #TPP

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Martin O'Malley: TPP Stalled Today, "Thanks to Your Voice" (Original Post) bigtree May 2015 OP

Surprising HassleCat May 2015 #1

O'Malley has been against the TPP for a while now, but the main problem most people have with the FSogol May 2015 #2

Most of the problem people have with it is the details of what's been leaked. Marr May 2015 #5

+100000 I keep seeing this absurd talking point, woo me with science May 2015 #8

Yep. I guess it's because they've got an argument against that one. Marr May 2015 #11

» bigtree May 2015 #3

and thanks to O'Malley for speaking out (darn eloquently too) on this. cali May 2015 #4

both Sanders and O'Malley define our Democratic campaign for president bigtree May 2015 #6

Hillary's statement on the trade bill Ichingcarpenter May 2015 #7

Here's to the people, finally fighting back against liars and predators! woo me with science May 2015 #9

Kick! Enough is enough. woo me with science May 2015 #10

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)

1. Surprising

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2015, 03:55 PM

May 2015

Wow. There seems to be a little momentum against TPP. Maybe our Congress people are a little gun shy after NAFTA and all the jobs it never produced, and all the wonderful benefits we never saw.

FSogol

(45,468 posts)

2. O'Malley has been against the TPP for a while now, but the main problem most people have with the

Reply to HassleCat (Reply #1)

Tue May 12, 2015, 03:58 PM

May 2015

deal is the secrecy.

Marr

(20,317 posts)

5. Most of the problem people have with it is the details of what's been leaked.

Reply to FSogol (Reply #2)

Tue May 12, 2015, 06:47 PM

May 2015

But the secrecy from everyone but big business is a big problem, too.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

8. +100000 I keep seeing this absurd talking point,

Reply to Marr (Reply #5)

Wed May 13, 2015, 02:36 AM

May 2015

that it's ONLY about the secrecy. As though we haven't been subject to a parade of appalling revelations about the predatory details of this corporate bag of shit.

Marr

(20,317 posts)

11. Yep. I guess it's because they've got an argument against that one.

Reply to woo me with science (Reply #8)

Wed May 13, 2015, 09:23 AM

May 2015

That 'every president since Ford has had Fast Track authority' means they can frame it as though Obama is getting unusually unfair treatment. And I guess it's a necessary corollary to the whole 'we don't even know what's in it!' bullshit.

And they just keep repeating it, no matter how many times it's corrected.