HRC was critical of TPP before it was cool

[Motown_Johnny]

75. Seriously? This has to be sarcasm.... right?

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-117249.html

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The 12-nation Pacific trade deal is the first major policy dilemma of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and she’s under pressure to cast aside her own past as a free-trade proponent and buck the current Democratic president in whose Cabinet she served.
Now, pressure is intensifying from Capitol Hill on the presumed Democratic standard-bearer.

Democratic lawmakers intent on preventing fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership are calling on Clinton to take a more definitive stance on the legislation, hoping that she can tip the scales against President Barack Obama’s position.



Merkley isn’t alone. A number of Democrats say their party’s front-runner should lay out her views and concerns with the so-called trade promotion authority bill that’s now dividing their party. The bill would give Obama the ability to finalize trade deals and Congress an up-or-down vote, essentially preventing lawmakers from making any changes.

That fast-track bill — which Clinton has yet to weigh in on — is a necessary first step for the administration to complete the largest trade agreement in American history. The TPP is an accord that could affect roughly 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. After a 20-6 vote in the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday night, the fast-track bill is expected to be approved by the full Senate within weeks. But the real question is whether enough House Democrats will join with Republicans to pass the measure.




http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-01/hillary-clinton-a-free-trader-or-not-depending-on-the-moment


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Three years ago Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised a proposed deal to reduce trade barriers among Pacific Rim nations as “the gold standard” for such pacts.

Now, the presidential candidate Clinton has nothing to say as President Barack Obama fights to win expanded negotiating authority to complete the agreement over furious opposition from organized labor and progressives in his own party.

Her silence on the premier economic issue dividing Democrats is consistent with a long history of wavering under pressure on trade. She has even alternately praised and criticized the landmark North American Free Trade Agreement signed by her husband in 1993, calling it good for America or a “mistake,” depending on the audience and circumstances.

Critics of the current deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are frustrated by Clinton’s ambiguous stance as she tries to hold together a political coalition that includes party activists on the left and major financial supporters from business and Wall Street.