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In reply to the discussion: How can a person who fights for the TPP be considered a friend of the 99%? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)No one is "holding a gun to our heads," but you know that. There are elements of this trade agreement that might well be useful, and the potential partners in it don't want to do their dealing in public. Governments often don't like to be seen as capitulating, even if all they're doing is horse-trading.
But you know that, too.
And of course, any opportunity to plump up George, you'll take it!
Since you're such a smart feller, you do know how treaties get ratified, don't you? Or do you think that King Barack is going to wave his scepter and "Make it so?" Or maybe HE will hold a gun to the heads of two thirds of the Senate, is that it? Since whatever King Barack wants, the GOP says "Hell to the NO" to, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Ain't that right, Charlie Brown?