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pampango

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3. No. It means that some more conservative types don't like the TPP either.

Reply to djean111 (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 03:42 PM

Dec 2013

In that sense opposition to the TPP is different from a liberal policies like raising taxes on the rich, increasing regulation of corporations and Wall Street, enhancing the safety net or repealing Taft-Hartley and reinstating Glass-Steagal. Conservatives don't support any of those, at all.

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From the right: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Bigger and More Dangerous Than ObamaCare [View all] pampango Dec 2013 OP

So, if I agree that the TPP is indeed horrible, does that make me a Rightie? djean111 Dec 2013 #1

No. It means that some more conservative types don't like the TPP either. pampango Dec 2013 #3

The TPP seems a weird mash-up of right-wing disdain for regulations and 1% greed to me. djean111 Dec 2013 #4

It's not the GOP saying that. subterranean Dec 2013 #6

You are right. "The GOP" is split on this between the corporate and tea party wings. pampango Dec 2013 #8

I pretty much think of GOP as being right-wing, I guess. djean111 Dec 2013 #9

On this point I agree. TPP is bullshit and anyone selling it on the basis of being opposite of what Ed Suspicious Dec 2013 #2

This would indicate to me that there are actually a few bullwinkle428 Dec 2013 #5

I was wondering when someone on the Right would pipe up about TPP! KoKo Dec 2013 #7

From the right: ProSense Dec 2013 #10

In this case, the unconnected-to-reality attack on Obamacare serves to prove that the author is pampango Dec 2013 #11