Have read several commenters recently joking calling TPP "Obamatrade".
I never have liked calling ACA 'Obamacare' and I don't like this moniker either.
For me the President's selling of the TPP has been his final coming out of the neo-liberal closet. After years of widespread Democratic base opposition to another dead ender trade deal, he and other DLC Third Way/ Corpadems are waving the 'FU' finger, pushing , a secret deal which a draft exposed by Wikileaks shows on Investor-State Dispute Settlements which could give corporations even more freedom from national regulation than they already have, taking the world further toward rule by bad actor multinationals and their .01% owners. YMMV
Many Dems are opposed, and WaPo thinks that even HRC has deserted Mr. Obama on this, minutes ago publishing:
Hillary Clinton’s hedge on trade leaves Obama without political cover
Regardless it seems that most Congressional supporters are Republicans, and that's another sign that this deal is not good for the 99%.
"Obamatrade?" Really?
"Obamatrade" Label Is Gaining Traction w Rightwing (32+ / 0-)
according to participants on the Thom Hartmann radio show few minutes ago.
RW is starting to oppose it based on the Obam-opposite Rule that forbids them supporting even their own policies if he supports them.
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King "Beyond Vietnam"
by Gooserock on Tue May 12, 2015 at 12:41:27 PM MDT
I got curious after seeing the comment above earlier today and did some looking.
And whatdayuhknow, yep, there is a Obamatrade websiteAND a Obamatrade Facebookpage.
Credit: http://obamatrade.com/...
One could guess from the image this is a RW site, their little disclaimer at being non-partisan notwithstanding.
Who put it up? Well the American Jobs Alliance. Who? No wiki page I could find. But did
go to http://www.americanjobsalliance.com/... and discovered their Board of Advisors
American Jobs Alliance Board of Advisors
AJA Advisory Board
Buddy Roemer, former Governor of Louisiana, former U.S. Congressman
Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute, counselor to Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration
John “Rick” MacArthur, author, The Selling of Free Trade, publisher, Harper’s Magazine
Greg Autry, co-author, Death by China, Merage School of Management, UC-Irvine, Senior Economist AJA
Pat Mulloy, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Adjunct Professor of International Trade Law, Catholic University and George Mason University, former commissioner US China Economic and Security Commission
Meh. Yeah well, okay. Suggest that if you are interested to check them out just so you'll know what they are up to.
Website page : "Why No Obamatrade"
Here's a sampling:
Obamatrade aka the TransPacific Parthership (TPP) is misleadingly called a “trade agreement.” But only two of its 26 chapters actually cover trade issues such as tariffs and quotas. Obamatrade is really an expansive system of enforceable global government that the Obama administration is negotiating with eleven Pacific Rim nations: Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Canada, Mexico and Peru. Obamatrade would impose one-size-fits all international rules to which U.S. federal, state and local law would be forced to conform. It would also give preferential treatment to foreign banks and other firms operating here, exempting foreign companies in the US from financial, environmental and land use regulations that US businesses would still be required to obey. Obamatrade would subject the U.S. to the jurisdiction of two systems of foreign tribunals, including World Bank and United Nations tribunals. These foreign tribunals would be empowered to order payment of U.S. tax dollars to foreign firms if U.S. laws undermined the foreign firms’ new special privileges.
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Well well well.
But when you get to the site's home page they have posts centering on a whole host of stellar fellers like Trump, Sessions, and Lou Dobbs.
Check it out if you dare, and share your take on it with us.