12 Responses to “GOP will lose seats in Congress and will lose a shot at presidency if GOP pushes TPP, aka Obamatrade”

1. Veritas
   June 16th, 2015 @ 9:22 am

   Trump, announcing candidacy, expressing strong opposition to TPP.

2. Rich
   June 16th, 2015 @ 10:07 am

   The GOP will lose seats and a chance for the Presidency if we keep making them the bad guy for what the DNC is doing. TPP has not and will not shut down this country. It has already been shut down by democrats. TPP is just another legislative ploy to blame it all on the GOP. Restraining trade does not hurt the unions. Corrupt leadership does because that kills the economy and jobs. Union jobs thrive under GOP leadership and go bankrupt under DNC leadership.

3. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
   June 16th, 2015 @ 10:13 am

   sorry Rich, you are completely off on TPP. Just as WTO-GATT and NAFTA were proven disasters, which depleted US of millions of jobs, so will TPP. Senator Jeff Sessions and all the conservative luminaries, such as Mark Levine, Rush Limbaugh, Savage, Malkin, Coulter agree with me. TPP is nothing but a push by a small group of billionaires to make billions by replacing American workers with cheap foreign labor

4. Larry
   June 16th, 2015 @ 11:11 am

   Orly the way I see it s they invest millions buying votes and receive billions off the backs of the people(by job lost or cheaper wages due to cheap competition) when deals like this get passed

5. Sandy Beach
   June 16th, 2015 @ 11:22 am

   *** push by a small group of billionaires***

   Industry vows: Trade pact will not die
   Business groups are expressing renewed determination to push trade legislation to President Obama’s desk, vowing to stop the House from writing the epitaph of a sweeping Asia-Pacific pact that was years in the making.

   From industry groups including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), to the various coalitions that have formed to press for trade promotion authority (TPA), the overwhelming response to Friday’s failure in the House is one of defiance.

   “Manufacturers will not back down in this fight for expanded trade, for the future of our industry and our country,” NAM said in a statement.
   Labor unions and other opponents of trade promotion authority, or fast-track, are equally determined to fight and are leaning on Democrats to hold firm.

   “We know that corporate interests that have been pushing fast-track … for years are not stopping,” said Neil Sroka, spokesman for the liberal Democracy for America. “So neither are we.”
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   The “path to enacting major
   legislation is never easy,” said Thomas Donohue, the president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, one of the nation’s largest business groups.

   “On trade, the unions and other groups that have railed against TPA face some sobering facts,” Donohue said. “If these trade bills are not approved, they’ll be stuck with the status quo they revile.”
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   Meanwhile, the Trade Benefits America Coalition, a group comprising more than 275 leading U.S. business and agricultural associations, took to Twitter and other social media websites to thank the lawmakers who voted for fast-track on Friday, including the 28 Democrats.
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   Unions took a similar tack, using online and print ads to praise Democratic lawmakers who voted against TAA and blocked Obama’s trade agenda for moving forward.
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   The White House repeatedly warned Democrats that opposing TAA, which expires at the end of the year, could kill the program. Republicans typically do not support TAA, and they could try to strip it from the package.

   Whatever path Republicans take, Bill Lane, director of global government affairs for Caterpillar, said he’s optimistic fast-track will soon be enacted.

   “We are befuddled as to why members of Congress who traditionally support Trade Adjustment Assistance choose to reject it in order to deny President Obama the opportunity to reduce foreign trade barriers and promote economic growth,” he said.

   Other groups supportive of the trade agenda cast the last-ditch effort by Democrats to hold up the package as shortsighted.

   The National Foreign Trade Council President Bill Reinsch called the House’s rejection of the TAA legislation “a historic mistake its members will come to regret.”

   “TAA is one of the few programs we have that helps our workers cope with the transition to a globally integrated economy, a transition that is going to continue regardless of Congress,” Reinsch said.

   https://thehill.com/policy/finance/trade/245064-business-groups-vow-trade-pact-will-not-die

6. Sandy Beach
   June 16th, 2015 @ 11:32 am

   ***Restraining trade does not hurt the unions.***
   Sorry, Rich.

   June 12, 2015
   A Big Win for Big Labor
   Unions successfully pressured House Democrats to vote against a bill they liked, in order to block a trade bill they hated.

   House Democrats may have cast the fatal votes that killed President Obama’s trade agenda on Friday morning, but the party responsible for its demise was a coalition whose numbers have diminished for decades and whose political clout has been questioned: the American labor movement.

   The Obama administration believed it had the votes necessary to pass the most-contentious piece of its trade legislation—Trade Promotion Authority—that would allow the president to finalize agreements with Pacific Rim nations and the European Union. But the labor movement was not prepared to give up. Instead, it caught the administration off guard by launching a surprise attack on legislation known as Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program designed to help workers displaced by trade and one which Democrats—and organized labor—have overwhelmingly supported in the past. Just 40 House Democrats—less than one-quarter of the caucus—voted for the bill, which fell in a landslide, 302-126. By defeating the aid measure, the labor movement rendered the administration’s careful work rounding up votes for Trade Promotion Authority largely irrelevant.

   [more at the link]
   https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/a-big-win-for-big-labor/395699/

7. Rich
   June 16th, 2015 @ 11:40 am

   Democrats bankrupt american business with entitlements that cannot be paid for by anyone. Nobody is noticing we are operating at a deficit. We can’t afford any jobs. GOP is not and has never been guilty of this policy. You are well aware of Obama’s ability to ignore the law with impunity. Blaming the lack of union jobs is the fault of Obama and the Unions he has corrupted. The GOP is left with the choices of bankruptcy or going overseas.The fact that democrats have shut the rest of the world down as well makes TPP MOOT except for blaming it on the greedy rich. And democrats know that. We can’t support any jobs in this country or anywhere else as long as democrats make oil energy illegal. Democrats have us side tracked and the media is responsible for that. Reagan never let that happen and that is why he won in two landslides.

8. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
   June 16th, 2015 @ 11:52 am

   absolutely, that is the name of the game: invest millions to get back billions from corrupt bought and paid for politicians

9. Sandy Beach
   June 16th, 2015 @ 12:13 pm

   06/16/15
   Boehner rips Republicans for ‘nonsense’

   Displaying a rare flash of anger, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday chastised the nearly three dozen Republicans who voted against a procedural rule that structured how a critical trade package was brought to the House floor.

   “I made it pretty clear to the members today I was not very happy about it,” Boehner told reporters after a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file members at the Capitol Hill Club. “You know, we’re a team. And we’ve worked hard to get the majority; we’ve worked hard to stay in the majority.

   “And I expect our team to act like a team, and frankly, I made it pretty clear I wasn’t very happy,” he added.

   In the meeting, Boehner told his fellow Republicans it was “nonsense” that some of them had voted against leadership, according to a GOP lawmaker in the room.

   His remarks, which sparked applause, are notable because GOP leaders for days have been highlighting Democrats’ “civil war” over trade.

   Boehner didn’t just give GOP rebels a tongue lashing. GOP leaders also booted three defectors — Reps. Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Steve Pearce (N.M.) and Trent Franks (Ariz.) — from the Republican whip team after they voted against the trade rule, National Journal reported.

   The large number of GOP defections on Friday’s rule vote nearly scuttled the trade package before it even reached the floor. Thirty-four Republicans, mostly conservatives, voted no, objecting to the way the package was put together.

   It wasn’t until a handful of pro-trade Democrats voted yes that the rule narrowly passed on a 217-212 vote.

   The rule split the Senate-passed trade package into parts, including separate votes on a bill to aid workers displaced by trade and another to grant President Obama fast-track authority to complete major trade deals.

   The fast-track bill, known as Trade Promotion Authority, narrowly cleared the House on a bipartisan vote. But because of the rule, it will not be sent to Obama’s desk because Democrats rallied to defeat the aid bill in order to derail the overall package.

   The House will vote on a new rule Tuesday that would allow GOP leaders to bring back the workers’ aid bill for another vote by July 30.

   Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), who was among the 34 Republicans who voted against the rule last week, said Boehner hasn’t spoken to him about his vote. He accused GOP leaders of catering too much to Democrats at the expense of losing support from conservatives.

   “This is the second or third time that they negotiated with Democrats and then Democrats go back on their word. And they still don’t come to the conservatives,” Labrador said at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation Tuesday morning. “We can help them with this process.”

   “Voting against the rule is almost like committing a capital crime here,” Labrador said of the leadership’s attitude.

   https://thehill.com/homenews/house/245110-boehner-rips-republicans-for-nonsense

10. Sandy Beach
    June 16th, 2015 @ 12:19 pm

    Three Booted From GOP Whip Team as Leaders Crack DownLummis, Pearce, and Franks punished for defying leaders on rule vote.

    House Republican leaders are cracking down on rebellious members after a near-disaster on a trade vote last week, but another imperiled rule coming to the House floor Tuesday is making it difficult to punish the members who leaders need to pass the measure.

    Reps. Cynthia Lummis, Steve Pearce, and Trent Franks have been removed from the whip team after they sided with GOP rebels to vote against a rule governing debate on a trade bill, according to sources close to the team.

    Lummis, a deputy whip and a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was perhaps the whip team’s highest-ranking bridge to the conference’s most intransigent members. Pearce and Franks are also very close to House conservatives.

    But House Majority Whip Steve Scalise had said earlier in the year that he would not tolerate members voting against rules and has already removed two other members close to the conservative movement.

    “In the beginning of the year,” Scalise spokesman Chris Bond said, “Whip Scalise reaffirmed the longstanding policy, also held by his predecessors, that while Whip team members are free to vote their conscience on underlying bills, they are expected to vote as a team on procedural matters such as last week’s rule vote.”

    A Lummis spokesman suggested his boss was taking the move in stride.

    “Cynthia knew going into the rule vote last week that being a member of the Whip Team has certain parameters,” said the spokesman, Joe Spiering. “She understands his decision and departs the Whip organization with nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Scalise and his entire organization.”

    The behind-the-scenes GOP infighting is playing out as Republicans place the blame on the failure to pass Trade Adjustment Assistance on President Barack Obama and House Democrats who abandoned him. But it makes clear that Republicans have problems of their own, which are continuing to hamper their ability to legislate.

    Those close to Speaker John Boehner have long pushed their leaders to drop the hammer on members who do not act as team players, a fight that has gone back to the beginning of the year when two dozen members voted against Boehner for speaker.

    But Boehner has by and large shied away from public displays of disunity, choosing instead to exact subtle retribution behind closed doors. Those members say they have found it harder to get their bills considered and have received less fundraising help from the party infrastructure.

    Nevertheless, Boehner publicly noted the frustration Tuesday morning. “I’m not very happy about it,” Boehner told repoters. “And I made it pretty clear to the members today I was not very happy. We’re a team and we’ve worked hard to get the majority, we’ve worked hard to stay in the majority and I expect our team to act like a team. And I, frankly, made it pretty clear I wasn’t very happy.”

    In a private meeting preceding the press conference, Boehner gave his conference a “stern talking-to” about getting with the team, because the alternative is putting Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in charge, according to a member in the room.

    But conservative members are still fuming that Boehner negotiated with Pelosi rather than acquiescing to demands from the Freedom Caucus, who wanted some assurances on the trade-bill process and others relating to an upcoming vote on the Export-Import Bank in exchange for their votes on Trade Promotion Authority.
    [more at the link]
    ttp://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/three-booted-from-gop-whip-team-as-leaders-crack-down-20150616

11. The Unknown Patriot...
    June 16th, 2015 @ 1:56 pm

    Well, Mr Boehner, I agree with the 30+ Congressmen who voted against your psycho B.S. that goes on practically all the time!

    You are a pirrhana-(sp) in disguise!

    Wow! I applaud the conservatives!

12. Sandy Beach
    June 17th, 2015 @ 7:02 am

    Again Rich comments: ” make oil energy illegal”. Got a link for that?

    June 10, 2015
    U.S. Ousts Russia as Top World Oil, Gas Producer in BP Data

    The U.S. has taken Russia’s crown as the biggest oil and natural-gas producer in a demonstration of the seismic shifts in the world energy landscape emanating from America’s shale fields.

    U.S. oil production rose to a record last year, gaining 1.6 million barrels a day, according to BP Plc’s Statistical Review of World Energy released on Wednesday. Gas output also climbed, putting America ahead of Russia as a producer of the hydrocarbons combined.

    The data showing the U.S.’s emergence as the top driller confirms a trend that’s helped the world’s largest economy reduce imports, caused a slump in global energy prices and shifted the country’s foreign policy priorities.

    “We are truly witnessing a changing of the guard of global energy suppliers,” BP Chief Economist Spencer Dale said in a presentation. “The implications of the shale revolution for the U.S. are profound.”
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    Economic Change
    In the U.S., the boom in oil and gas production has started to change the economy profoundly. Cheap fuel has seen manufacturing return to the U.S. as the country produced about 90 percent of the energy it consumed last year.

    Last year, imports equaled 1 percent of GDP, according to BP’s data. In 2007, just before the financial crisis, U.S. energy imports accounted for about half of the current account deficit of 5 percent of GDP.

    Shale drillers from Exxon Mobil Corp. to Chesapeake Energy Corp. spent about $120 billion last year in the U.S., more than double the amount five years earlier. The surge in output and a slowdown in global demand have pushed crude oil prices down about 40 percent in the past year.
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    The U.S. increase in oil output last year, helping it to overtake Saudi Arabia as a crude producer, was the first time a country has raised production by at least 1 million barrels a day for three consecutive years, BP said.

    [more at the link]
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-ousts-russia-worlds-top-090118951.html

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