Pro-TPP Business group: Clinton will FLIP on trade after election

[JonLeibowitz]

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Speaking with reporters Tuesday, Business Roundtable president John Engler cited the Clintons' family history of changing their stances on trade deals, and downplayed the significance of Hillary Clinton's current opposition to the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by President Obama.

"There's history in the family, in the Clinton family, where President Clinton was opposed to NAFTA in its current form before the election and then was the champion … in the '90s," Engler said, referring to the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiated in the early 1990s and implemented by Bill Clinton.

"I think that there's nothing new about candidates running who are opposed to trade deals," Engler said, noting that Clinton has not spelled out specific objections to the TPP, a 12-nation trade deal.
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"What would be newsworthy is if after they were elected they held the same position," Engler concluded. "That's to be determined."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/business-group-clinton-will-flip-on-trade-after-election/article/2585866

Also from the article: "The Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs of large companies, has been among the top advocates for the Pacific-nation trade pact."

[Ferd Berfel]

1. Wonder if the Hillary supporters

will deny this?

The rest of us are sure this is what will will happen

[nichomachus]

4. Not today

Their meme today is that Sanders only ran as a Democrat to get publicity. They're using that one relentlessly, beating a stain on the sidewalk where there used to be a dead horse.

[nichomachus]

2. Those $200,000 checks weren't birthday presents

They were retainers

[shawn703]

3. John Engler, Michigan's former Republican governor during Clinton's presidency

Doesn't have a lot of credibility when it comes to criticizing Democrats. I support Sanders, but having been a constituent of Engler's, he's about as bad as they come.

[JonLeibowitz]

5. Is he criticizing her? He appears to be extolling her "flexibility" on free trade.

He appears to be thrilled that she is expected by the business community to flip, and betray American workers.

[earthshine]

6. Hillary on trade: Flip ... Flop ... after the election, the other shoe will drop

She cannot be trusted on most issues, but especially trade deals.

[arcane1]

7. In other news:

[Umbral18]

8. How would Sherrod Brown explain that flipflop?

I guess if he's the VP he wont give a shit.

[Ferd Berfel]

9. LIke Howard Dean, Brown has been bought

I'd take anything he said from here on, with a yuuge grain of salt

[amborin]

10. of course she will; just as she did w/ other FTAs that she promised to oppose; she lobbied for them