Obama hopes to enlist GOP in push for trade pact, despite Democratic resistance

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37. Okay.

Complaint 1: Do you have any evidence that multinational trade deals have ever been negotiated in any other fashion, and any reasonable argument that they practically could be?

Complaint 2: Business interests are the ones who engage in trade. They obviously should have a seat at the table at a trade negotiation. But what specifically is your information that businesses are being included while other stakeholders are excluded?

Complaint 3: In other words, the draft proposals that have been leaked are the ones horrible enough to motivate someone to leak them, while those that aren't....aren't.

As for my "use of the dismissive phrase 'complaint du jour,' would you seriously deny that a large part of this is indeed "persistent whiners whose criticisms have no basis and who will beon to some other fancied grip tomorrow?" That doesn't have to preclude the legitimacy of serious complaints here - just acknowledge that this seems to have attracted the attention of a...dubious...contingent.

I'm not defending TPP, whatever it is (neither of us knows, since the leaks were of proposals). But I do demand that liberal politics be based on facts and not hysteria.