A funny thing happened on the way to Mau-mauing Barack Obama

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65. it's a canard that fast track can be revoked in the current Congress

...anyone can count the votes which will have republicans overwhelming supporting TPP and a sufficient number of Democrats in support of the trade pact to ensure any opposition won't reach the 60 vote threshold negotiated in the TPA deal to revoke fast track. It's a cynical and insincere clause which is designed to make it appear there's a way to back out of fast track. The WH (and Sen. Hatch, who came up with this phony clause) knows well the votes aren't there to make that clause realistic.

PLUM LINE: Doesn’t the current framework allow for the revocation of fast track authority?

WARREN: The whole point about fast track is to grease the skids so that 51 votes will get it through…it takes a majority to get rid of fast track.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/11/elizabeth-warren-fires-back-at-obama-heres-what-theyre-really-fighting-about/