Surprise! Hillary Clinton's Big Campaign Speech Didn't Mention The Trade Deal - HuffPo

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29. I wonder if she originally planned to talk about it when "it was too late" already on Saturday...

... when she and Obama had hoped that he would be able to sign it this weekend before things got "complicated" on Friday and it is going back to the Senate now. Since it isn't done, rather than her taking a stance on it now like perhaps she had earlier planned by having her speech on this weekend, she simply continued to do the strategy of avoiding talking about it.

This weekend was the perfect opportunity if she really wanted TPP to be stopped unless it had "good things" in it that Obama had promised to say it shouldn't be passed any more once the TAA provision was taken out of the bill that goes back before the Senate. Would have been a good excuse for her to have said the right thing and say, "the bill that is now before congress has now been made weaker and I can't support it any more". The timing offered the perfect opportunity to have her put her stamp on Democrats to stop it in congress now, which could ensure that TPA won't get passed. I'd be very thankful to her then if she were to have done that. Not commenting on it makes her appear to be more a part of the problem rather than the solution. She is just fueling more opposition from many of us that are concerned about this issue now. I'm also looking for newer candidates to primary Wyden in the Senate and Bonamici in the House too.

I might pull back from trying to get DeFazio to primary Wyden, if Wyden uses this opportunity to shut down the TPA in the Senate by using the same logic. That the TAA portion he fought to get put in the TPA bill has been removed in the version that is before him now, and that he and other senators can no longer support it. I think that might rescue him from facing a primary challenger in 2016.