If this was a Nuclear Arms Agreement (like with Iran), I'd be in complete agreement with "Negotiation Secrecy".
I deem what Tom Cotton and his 46 "Fellow Travelers" did in in writing that letter to the Iranian Ayatollahs and
attempting to throw Obama under the bus without even seeing what the negotiated multinational
NUCLEAR ARMS AGREEMENT was, as tantamount to Treason.
An International Trade Agreement is in NO WAY equivalent to a Nuclear Arms Agreement.
My objections are mainly based on the "bum rush" of the TPA. I can't offer knowledgable objections to the
contents of the TPP because I'm being kept ignorant of it's contents due to the SECRECY attached to it's contents.
THIS I vehemently object to.
How can my elected representatives reflect MY views on proposed TRADE legislation, when
my elected representatives are FORBIDDEN from discussing and disclosing the contents of the
proposed TRADE legislation to ME, his constituent??
I'm just supposed to just "trust" a secret process in a supposedly Open Society?
On a Trade Deal??
In a "Representative Democracy"???
After NAFTA???
Are you shitting me???
YES. Regular order through Congress!!! If the TPP does not pass through the gauntlet, tough shit.
At least everyone will know why. What's the big rush that it needs to bypass regular order?
Why can it not be openly debated and/or amended???
Bottom line:
When Wall Street, Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, the Chamber of Commerce,
companies like Nike and President Obama are on one side of a debate, and Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren,
Alan Grayson, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the Congressional Black Caucus are the other side of the debate,
I'll choose Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the Congressional Black Caucus
EVERYTIME.
You may want to reconsider who is throwing whom under the bus.
And by the way, where is Hillary on this???
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