Obama Takes Unexpected Setback On Trade Agenda As Fast Track Passes Senate

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96. 90 days is nothing. They have had 10 years to plant land mines throughout the document. Even the

simplest verbiage can have unforeseen implications that come to light under challenge. But a behemoth document like TPP, crafted by large teams of lawyers, with no opposing balance is guaranteed to be fraught with deliberately planted secret trap doors that will be sprung when legal challenges are brought against TPP signatories.

They have had years to run through mock challenge scenarios, then craft language to defend against those challenges.

I wouldn't allow bank robbers to write laws governing bank robbery, or let pedophiles write laws governing child molestation. And hundreds of gigantic corporations have no business getting veto power over our labor, food safety, pollution and environmental regulations.

And don't tell that is not what TPP is about, because that is exactly what TPP is about. It is about losing our legislative sovereignty to a bunch of corporations who will gladly pollute the water our kids drink and the air that they breath if they can make another nickel from it.