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Mahalo for posting this, she.. This dustup with Sen Warren has been on my mind all day since I read this ..
Elizabeth Warren is Not Telling the Truth About The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal
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More precisely, President Obama is telling the truth about the deal, and Senator Warren is not. Since the TPP deal is still under negotiation, the merits of the final agreement are (or will be) debatable, but the deceptive rhetoric being employed by Warren is not.
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"This is not a new phenomenon, and one which Sen. Warren seems to understand in the context of the P5+1 talks. When she is shocked, SHOCKED that the TPP deal isnt available for public viewing while it is still being negotiated, she is not telling you the truth. She knows that the reason the deal isnt available while its being negotiated is, right or wrong, because public pressure could, at any point, derail a flawed but fixable agreement. The reason she gives, however, is quite literally unbelievable:
Seriously, Sen. Warren? People have given it to you? Way to narrow it down, because I was going to go away convinced youd been advised by hoot owls, who are notorious liars. Why the secrecy, though? If these people are so sure TPP is a horrible deal, why cant we talk to them? Can other people besides you see them?
Senator Warren calls TPP a top secret deal, shes not telling you the truth. Any member of Congress can see it now, and before Congress votes on it, the final deal will be posted online for 60 days. What we can see now is the USTR summary of the deal, which, granted, isnt the deal, but it isnt nothing.
Finally, when Senator Warren says that the TPA bill leaves us virtually no ability to stop it from the Senate or the House, or concern-trolls about fixing a final deal through an amendments process that TPA shuts off, shes not telling you the truth. The final deal, after its 60-day public review period, will receive an up-or-down vote, which means Congress can quite easily stop the deal. It just means that a minority in Congress cant obstruct the deal. Ditto the amendments, which would not be a way to fix a final deal since the other 11 nations involved would also insist on that authority, irreparably gumming up the negotiations. Amendments, in this case, are a way to obstruct a final deal. See nuclear deal, Iran once again."
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http://thedailybanter.com/2015/04/elizabeth-warren-is-not-telling-the-truth-about-the-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal/