Fast track would strip Congress of the ability to filibuster or amend whatever deal Obama eventually reaches. That block is also the basis for objections by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders’
I have learned to fear our system when the nut right and the well meaning left
seem tp agree. In the 0s the two sides agreed on mental health care .. close the hospitals, they said. The left wanted to do this because mental health hospitals infringed on the civil rights of patients. In part this was because the underfunded hospitals had become poor houses. The R’s, as usual, wanted to save money.
Now the Tea Party hates anything our Black President proposes and their leaders claim the President wants to undermine U.S. sovereignty. On the left, liberal critics and the unions argue it will exacerbate income inequality and empower foreign corporations to attack important U.S. regulations.
Here, from FACEBOOK, is an example of Tea Party think:
While you and your family were sleeping – Senate Republicans voted to give President Obama even more power by advancing his trade deal.
Critics believe the plan will send more American jobs overseas — and Sen. Ted Cruz was one of the Republicans who sided with the president — in the dark of night.
Matt Drudge called it “the night of the Republican suicide.”
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First the Republicans refuse to defend religious liberty and now they have betrayed the American working man.
Republicans campaign as conservatives but govern as Democrats. Todd Starnes