2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton's opposition to the TPP is insulting [View all]yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Every member of Congress had access to the draft-in-work TPP document which is an international agreement. This is the process Congress determined would allow the executive branch the ability to negotiate simultaneously with a number of sovereign nations. If Congress were able to revise and change and throw out item after item, no country would ever agree to negotiate with an administration and 500 plus Congresspersons! It would be unworkable and a non-starter.
Now your argument is Congress should be in charge and no trade deals is the best deal! That, in fact, protectionism and isolation is our best option. Or simple little tariff deals - damn the consequences!
Congress may do just that!
TPA was the guidelines for what Congress wanted the administration to negotiate for. If our Congresspersons determine TPP did not meet their goals - or in the case of a number of Congresspersons, would never meet acceptable conditions ever - TPP will be rejected.
This simplistic notion of "corporatist buddy Democrats" is for simple-minded children. I hope this is just hyperbole and not your vision of the way the world really is. Unfortunately, I'm most certainly wrong on this point.
Go read TPP, follow the reasoning and structures, expand your knowledge! Understand the future and what is headed our way!