TPP Opponents Take Aim at Pelosi: Let's Build a Firewall of Resistance

[midnight]

"While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said to reporters Tuesday that passage of the TPP was unlikely during the lame duck session, the CREDO petition suggests otherwise, and explains how Pelosi could play a key role. It states:

The supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are gearing up for one last push to ram an unprecedented corporate power grab through Congress before President Obama leaves the White House. They are looking to pass the “NAFTA on steroids” after the November election this year during a lame-duck session when members are least accountable to their constituents. [...]

If Leader Pelosi uses her power and influence to encourage other Democrats to take a stand against a lame-duck vote on the TPP, that alone could strike a serious blow against the best chance our opponents have of passing the TPP. [...] But Democratic Leader Pelosi has been surprisingly quiet on this issue. And what she says will have enormous influence on whether Democrats in the House of Representatives band together to ensure there are not enough votes to attempt a lame-duck TPP vote. [...]

While Congress cannot amend or filibuster the TPP, they do still have to vote yes or no on it. Already, some Republicans have come out against this awful deal, so if we are able to confront the big money interests behind this treaty with an onslaught of grassroots opposition, convincing the Democrats in the House to build a firewall, we can win."

http://commondreams.org/news/2016/07/13/tpp-opponents-take-aim-pelosi-lets-build-firewall-resistance

[Doctor_J]

1. We're stuck with TPP, all of its corollaries, fracking, forever war, and the world's worst and

most expensive healthcare. No amount of pleading with the so-called dems is going to pry them loose from the multinationals, Big Oil, the MIC, and PHARMA. If you or I want to be a member of the party in its current form, that's part of what we need to like.

[JRLeft]

2. Right, the evidence is on this board.

[midnight]

3. I sure hope not...