How Bernie Sanders Can Kill the 1 Percent's TPP Trade Deal

[yuiyoshida]

The DC press says it's getting down to the wire on a possible vote in the House on fast track to substantially pre-approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other pending trade deals, with a vote possible as early as Thursday.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who was a close second in a recent straw poll of Wisconsin Democrats, has called for a "political revolution" to revitalize democracy in the United States.

Is Sanders ready to walk the walk?

There's a big difference between voting no on something and doing everything in your power to stop it. Senator Dick Durbin voted no on the Iraq war. So he's innocent, right? You can't blame him for the war; he was against it. But in April 2007, Durbin gave a remarkable speech on the Senate floor. He said that as a member of the Senate intelligence committee, he had known at the time that the American people were being misled into the Iraq war, that the classified intelligence being given to members of Congress didn't match the public rhetoric of the Bush administration about the supposed threat to the U.S. from Iraq. But, he said, he kept this information to himself because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/how-bernie-sanders-can-kill-the-tpp_b_7544032.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Bernie the Kamikaze pilot…(nt)

[Tobin S.]

2. That's actually an article criticizing Sanders.

The author claims that Sanders can legally publish the entire TPP deal for the public to see. I think he would have done it by now if he could have done it without getting into legal trouble. I wasn't aware that members of Congress have seen the deal yet.

[yuiyoshida]

3. oops..

it was on my twtter feed, guess I will read it again.

[Maedhros]

4. I think it's OK to analyze anti-Bernie articles.

Will help us better understand how to counter criticisms.

[sabrina 1]

7. Some have been allowed to go to a secret room, which is guarded and where they are not allowed to

touch it, take it home, show it to anyone, send their aides in when they are busy to make copies. So how on earth can anyone introduce it on the floor of the Senate?

How, since they can't even make copies are they supposed to get past the guards and take out thousands of pages without being stopped and arrested?

Ridiculous suggestion from someone who apparently has no clue about the anti-Constitutional restrictions that have been placed on members of Congress, and even this 'peek' they have been allowed, would not have happened had it not been for the public pressure which was so intense, they finally had to make a few teeny concessions.

The only way this could get to the floor of the house would be if some professional jewel thieves were to be hired, knock out the guards, and steal it. Then they would have to appear with it on the floor, where they would be instantly arrested, the text secured and taken to a vault somewhere, and they would probably join Chelsea Manning for 35 years, if they were lucky.

[hootinholler]

5. This is a bullshit hit piece

Sanders doesn't have the text to publish. He has been allowed to read it, but does not have a copy. THey weren't even allowed notes in the reading room.

It's typical of how far people have to go to offer criticism. The well informed know it for what it is. The less informed won't know the difference and might be influenced.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. If Bernie was truly a friend of the 99%

he'd memorize the entire thing. How hard would that be?

LOL! You Leftys are so gullible.

[sabrina 1]

8. Or he would dress up in a costume, black mask etc, arm himself and sneak in at night, take out any

guards he sees along the way, he would need some accomplices to help him carry it out, then hide somewhere in the Capital Bldg until Congress is in session.

He would jump from his hiding place, throw off his disguise, his accomplices would drag the thousands of pages of text to the floor where all of them would instantly be arrested, charged with treason, battery, etc etc, the text would be secured, and Bernie would spend the rest of his life in jail, if he wasn't shot first.

He definitely is no friend of the people if he isn't already planning this.