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House Kills Fast-Track Of Obamatrade After Pelosi-Led Democrat Rebellion
And just like that, President Obama's fast track of his "great job creation" bill is defeated in a 126-302 procedural vote which stumbled over what is known as the Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Following Pelosi's comments that "its defeat is the only way we will be able to slow down fast track," and "people would rather have a job than assistance", the defeat of a measure to provide aid to workers displaced by trade deals means the fast-tracking of the TPP is done (for now).
- *HOUSE HAS ENOUGH VOTES TO DEFEAT TRADE BILL
And with a whopping 302 votes against, House democrats just stunned the democrat president by ending the "fast-track" of the TPP and forcing it back to the drawing room table. As the NYT puts it:
House Democrats rebuffed a dramatic personal appeal from President Obama on Friday, torpedoing his ambitious push to expand his trade negotiating power — and, quite likely, his chance to secure a legacy-defining trade accord spanning the Pacific Ocean.
Of course this can all go back for another markup and another amendment but for now. TPP needs the passage of the TAA to send the bill back to Obama for his signature, which means we are back to square one.
In a remarkable rejection of a president they have resolutely backed, House Democrats voted to kill assistance to workers displaced by global trade, a program their party created and has stood by for four decades. By doing so, they brought down legislation granting the president trade promotion authority — the power to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended or filibustered by Congress — before it could even come to a final vote.
“We want a better deal for America’s workers,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader who has guided the president’s agenda for two terms and was personally lobbied by Mr. Obama until the last minute.
Republican leaders tried to muster support from their own party for trade adjustment assistance, a program they have long derided as an ineffective waste of money and sop to organized labor. But not enough Republicans were willing to save the program.
Republican leaders could still try to pass a stand-alone trade promotion bill, but that would force the Senate to take up a trade bill all over again. And without trade adjustment assistance alongside it, passing trade promotion authority in the Senate would be highly doubtful.
The vote was an extraordinary blow to Mr. Obama, who went to the Capitol on Friday morning to plead personally with Democrats to “play it straight” — to oppose trade promotion if they must but not to kill trade assistance, a move he cast as cynical. On Thursday night, he had made an unscheduled trip to the annual congressional baseball game to try to persuade Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the minority leader.
And, as expected, shortly after the failure to pass TAA the House passed the TPA...
- U.S. HOUSE VOTES FOR OBAMA'S FAST-TRACK TRADE NEGOTIATING BILL
... But it did not matter because:
- VOTE IS SYMBOLIC; TRADE BILL CAN'T GO TO OBAMA
Did the US public finally give big corporations, who have successfully purchased the US president long ago, the middle finger?
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"What'd we leave out?"
JFC, people this is fight club.
If that cunt Pelosi did something that benefits us, that is not the reason she did it.
Look in the mirror and if need be slap yourself as hard as you can in the forehead, they.. don't... do... anything..., for us. They do things to us. That is not the reason they got in politics. Wake the fuck up. It won't help, but wake the fuck up anyway.
We should be angling for the best job we can get in a FEMA camp. I'm thinking electric fence maintenance will be the sweet job, trading fresh rat meat for blowjobs. Everybody has to be good at something.
Pure political theater. If the oligarchs want this trade plan well then you can surely bet it will be passed.
Just in case you don't know who the real masters are.
The fact the Ratpublicans are pairing up with Obama on this secret trade deal shows how bad it must truly be.
The Democrats are playing hard ball to appease their voter based only to roll over at the last second.
What else would you expect from the most corrupt country on the face of the earth?
Sad days for Amerika.
"House Kills Fast-Track Of Obamatrade After Pelosi-Led Democrat Rebellion"
Just their way to say that they need higher bribes to pass this Zionist piece of shit.
Just like Obamacare, it will pass, after higher payoffs are paid.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
WHat motivates a man to want to destroy his own people? The people that voted him into office? I guess I know the answer: money. Imagine all the black people that voted for him thinking they were going to get a break in life. Obama is a trojan horse. Lucifer dropped out of him on the average American trying to stay alive.
His own? LOL
The really funny thing is that most of them are really BAD actors.
Sorry - but we are not 'his people'
Its called the "asset-stripping" of a country-usually by banks and corporations. . The guys enabling from within make out pretty well.
TPA/TPP/TAA/TISA/TTIP did not die today. Just as in horror movies, the villain is alive and well after what appeared to be a defeat. Don't listen to what the talking heads are saying -- they have no clue about the meaning of the words that they are reading, and the writers of those words are also clueless other than to parrot the words in press releases and press conferences.
On the contrary, by a vote of 219-211, the primary aspect of the TPA ("fast track") was passed in the House today. When more money is added to the TAA, the Dems will come around and the train will be running fine. Today was nothing more than a minor bump in the road -- just like with TARP, initial appearances mean nothing.
Or not. They will not need to when the rule requiring all bills be passed together is lifted. You will likely not hear about it when that happens.
BAD HEADLINE, DUDE. TPA PASSED.
It's the subsidiary and meaningless TAA that failed.
I don't know where that leaves things, but the basic headline here is WRONGO.
Correct!
It leaves the trade bills intact and awaiting removal of the procedural rule requiring TAA to be passed along with them. TAA is assistance to workers who lose their jobs because of TPA and TPP. (Got rid of that nasty ENTITLEMENT !?). TAA was the part that was killed!
http://rt.com/usa/266863-tpp-pass-house-obama/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/politics/obamas-trade-bills-face-to...
In a remarkable blow to a president they have backed so resolutely, House Democrats voted to end assistance to workers displaced by global trade, a program their party created and has supported for four decades. That move effectively scuttled legislation granting the president trade promotion authority — the power to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended or filibustered by Congress.
Republican leaders then passed, in a 219-to-211 vote, a stand-alone bill that would grant the president the trade negotiating authority he sought. But that measure cannot go to the president for his signature, because the Senate version of the legislative package combined both trade adjustment and trade promotion.
We are powerless to stop any of this shit. The federal government is sooooo far out of bounds that the only remedy left available is violent dissolution. And so it will be. Those paying attention should quietly prepare and do everything within their means to avoid participating in the system.
I've said it before and I will say it again:
At street-level, U.S. FEDGOV power is flexed by run-of-the-mill bureaucrats--millions of them--unionized, organized, lock-stepped. The biggest labor constituency under the AFLCIO umbrella? AFSCME: American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees. AFSCME, while boasting more than a million local-level bureaucratic membership, does not include hundreds of other small well organized government employee unions all members of which pay their dues to fund the election of candidates friendly to a Big Labor force in Big Government. Big Labor bureaucrats began taking over U.S. government in 1962 when JFK issued ExecOrder #10988 allowing the U.S. Civil Service to organize & bargain collectively. I have not yet discovered which union the grunt-work NSA employees must join but I'd bet hard money AFLCIO president Richard Trumka can get information from NSA with a back-channel phone call. Any "government" shadow or not needs a compliant bureaucracy to do its bidding.
Now I'm really afraid. What just happened? And why?
One of these bastards goes off-script and I get chills up my spine.
Between this and the Grexit. The lack of immediate capitulation by the Leftwingers have left me flummoxed too.
Off topic, but hit me like a train, my best mate called down for a few beers.
The home I live in faces west on the back side so I get the sun till the sun goes down. He called up for a couple of beers and we both just realized the Swallows have turned up, them beautiful little birds that fly thousands of miles each year to call my house their home. You know what he asked? I'm going to tell you.
He said, his words, 'That is the only creature I ever seen that didnt need money to do what it does'. He loves Swallows mind.
And I didnt miss a blink as I had nothing at all to add, what the fuck could I say to top that? Why dont Swallows need money and we do?
I am genuinely miffed??????
Is he right???????
And I could be pissed?
:-)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The swallows do it for sex.
Well, which is it? Spits or swallows?
Yup try explaining taxes to a honey Badger.
Whew. Ducked that Obamanation... for now.
So...the Dems made a show of fighting against this because it wasn't socialist enough? How are we to interpret this beyond to usual kabuki theater?
So do I have this right? TPP depends on TPA and TPA depends on TAA. The democrats like TAA but hate TPP so they voted against TAA because it stops TPA which stops TPP???? But I thought the house passed TPA? Does TPP depend on both TAA and TPA and voting one and not the other still kills TPP? WWWWTTTFFFFF!?!?! I seriously have no idea what the hell is going on.
What about populist Ted Cruz who was for the bill? Of course, the fact that his wife works for Goldman Sachs had nothing to do with his stance. Nothing.
Remember TARP.
Excellent reminder
Don't worry CONgress is still for sale - the price just went up.
Just BAU.
Corporate lobbyists lobby the government, and they get paid for it.
If you wrote or called your congressman about this issue and voiced your opinion, then you also exercised your right to lobby the government. The only difference is you didn't get paid for it.
If you did write or call your congressman? Then thank you very much for your effort, because by raising your voice and by doing your part by getting involved, you well may have been the reason this bill was killed.
Good for you, citizen. Actually were paid... with a tip of the hat.
my middle fingers been up since 08.
what can you say about Nancy Pelosi's face that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan?
...or iguanas.
Yeaaaaahh...nothing is stopping this. NOTHING. They started the Arab spring and overthrew the Ukrainian government because of these agreements. Nothing is going to stop them.
Farout.
Actually, this is all needlessly complicated
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/12/politics/white-house-tpp-trade-deal-congress/
"The House overwhelmingly rejected the first in a series of trade bills Friday, with Democrats voting against a program that aids displaced workers -- in large part because, under the chamber's procedures, its defeat meant the vote on the so-called "fast track" bill that followed was only symbolic, so the measure couldn't be sent to Obama's desk. "
But after some votes the story skips over, they did vote for trade promotion authority, the basic center of the bill that allows presentation and prevents amendment... but it was 'symbolic" in the sense that "procedural rules" required another bill to pass, and when it didn't, it meant the trade promotion authority bill - a totally separate bill - didn't count.
I mean, the fuckery and deception is just being used to cover up fuckery and deception.
The US Chamber of Commerce lobbying hard for fast track and the TPP should basically tell you how bad it is.
Wait. What trade bill was that? I thought it was a domestic (i.e., not trade) bill to compensate workers who lost jobs because of the TPA and TPP trade bills.
from the cnn story, I don't know and I'm too lazy to read more about it - I mean, its clear they will pass this thing in such a way they can say they both voted for it and against it later...
These simple, greedy, predictable whores.
It is remarkable, how bad a bill, how broad the support of the people's reps.
And in 2 years we could see another Bush or Clinton in the whitehouse?
Absurd.
Obama is one dumb fucker. Is it necessary to read anything about the stupid shit?
President Zero takes it in the ass again, and this time not by Reggie but by lezbo Piglosi...
Gold Jerry! Gold!
I smell a rat. I cannot see it yet, but I can smell it. This headline (misleading as to what was passed and what was not passed) wants me to believe Fast Track and TPP are "killed" and that is simply not true.
The two votes ended TAA = fail, Fast Track = pass. ("Fast Track" = "Secrecy")
The hinge in this is a procedural agreement ("a rule") that requires TAA and Fast Track to be passed together for TPA and TPP to proceed. Will we even hear of a vote to repeal that agreement, thereby allowing Fast Track, TPA, and TPP to move forward again unopposed and without TAA (pending an absurd agreed-to all or nothing final approval process, notoriously susceptible to media spin!)? What is the name of that procedural rule so we can look for it in the obituaries, at least?
Or, maybe as usual when it comes to super-interest big monies, I just dunno whazzup atall. But, that's the point, isn't it, with all this secrecy. Now we have the groundwork for a secret congressional vote to release a bill already passed, that got headlines saying it was killed. Media -- read it carefully and you know you are being seriously screwed somehow.
But wait, there's more!! Now the alleged "final" TPP vote is all-or-nothing, meaning when they "finally" tell us they are voting to approve or kill, ... WHAT will they say gets approved or gets killed? Babies? Endangered Lizards? Baseball? Taiwan? What?!!! Will we-the-people ever know what that bill says about our future?
Oh, and it also strikes me that defeating TAA really has the effect of simply killing that costly assistance to workers displaced by TPA and TPP when become law. BONUS!
IT IS ALL A TRICK. CARLIN WAS RIGHT.
When you get lawyers making the rules, main street has a bitch of a time making heads or tails of them. They do that intentionally to fleece us and to justify their so called 'higher' education.
The greatest leaders in history or even today are not attorneys.
die motherfuckers DIE!
take that you mofo backstabbing treasonous bastards. we have your names
Nancy - I'm officially removing the pins from your Voodoo Doll
(At least for the time being)
don't be too hasty
Don't worry - any back-sliding and they go straight back in... this time red hot!
Brilliant piece of subterfuge if you think about it. Now the same people that have been selling us down the river for decades are our 'friends'.
This is what probably happened today;
#1 Now the Democrats are for the 'average person' in America - LMFAO. Does anyone out there really believe that 'PeLOUSY' gives a rats ass about middle income America? - LMFAO. This will insure Hillary's presidency in 2016. She will probably re-introduce the bill anyway...........
#2 Key members of Congress just didn't get 'enough' kick backs to insure the bill's passage. After all, we are broke aren't we???
#3 This is just the usual Dog and Pony show that precedes everything this idiot does anyway - just to make it look good. The bill will be passed by 'executive decision'.
Like all his bills it will go through eventually - even if no one gets to read it - especially the 'little people' that it will affect the most to begin with.
America is done - the damage is irreversible. It's all downhill from here.....................
I sympathize with your pessimism. This whole thing stinks to high heaven just like it did back in 1776. Look what happened then. IMO the only things in this world that are irreversible are Death & the orbit and systems of the earth itself. When it comes to human affairs, anything can happen anywhere anytime.
Here is today's Clerk of The House official record http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx of proceedings surrounding this legislation. Those ol' boys have carved it up 8 ways from Sunday and there is no way to really tell what they are voting on unless you have a program. Like the man at the ball park says, "You can't tell who's playin if you don't have a program." The only ones who know what they are really voting on are the ones doing the voting. Out here on the hustings, the rest of us wait to see what the next FEDGOV horror will be. I say sell D.C. to Disney. Let'm make it a nice museum. Move the capitol to Olathe, Kansas. Yeah, that's the ticket.
I had no opinion about Paul Ryan until now.
Now I know that this secret deal ankle-grabbing treasonous fuck isn't fit to hold any office, including his current gig.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant in a republic, bitch.
Yep - that Ryan's a prize scumbag.. with a fancy haircut
"people would rather have a job than assistance"
nancy pelosi CLEARLY does not understand who she represents.
the hill is easier to follow on this stuff.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/244858-shaking-off-obama-pelosi-stuns-...
so they didn't pass it.
But.. they voted for it...
but the vote was just symbolic.
sigh.
fast forward 14 months when nancy pelosi will reintroduce the SAME bill, having renamed it to something like The American WOrker Dignity Restoration Act......
Grand Bargain: cuts to Soc Security in return for pork barrel "infrastructure" cash
How the fuck am I on the same side of anything as Nancy Pelosi??
No shit, what a mixed up crazy world.
TPA passed. it was the retraining bill that did not pass. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/12/1392707/-Fast-track-trade-bill-...
Yeshua Hamashiach hadam nasa!!!!!
They tossed the workers and any compensation for job losses due to the trade deal under the bus. The Kleptocracy is in the driver seat and is now backing over any remaining middle class survivors and all minimum wage workers.
imes.com/2015/06/13/us/politics/obamas-trade-bills-face-to...
In a remarkable blow to a president they have backed so resolutely, House Democrats voted to end assistance to workers displaced by global trade, a program their party created and has supported for four decades. That move effectively scuttled legislation granting the president trade promotion authority — the power to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended or filibustered by Congress.
Republican leaders then passed, in a 219-to-211 vote, a stand-alone bill that would grant the president the trade negotiating authority he sought. But that measure cannot go to the president for his signature, because the Senate version of the legislative package combined both trade adjustment and trade promotion.
Republicans=TRAITORS=OBAMA SUPPORTERS
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PELOSI IS BOUGHT BY CHINESE HOT MONEY.
IT ws the only thing geopolitcally which would have curtailed Chinas path.
OBAMA MUST REDO IT MINUS THE PORK.
That fucking bitch...she and another royal ass hole, Diane Feinstein. Scum of the earth.
They're chipping away at 'the boss' in order to make way for the next phase. Their contrived plans will eventually render them obsolete. You can't will ideology into existence. The game is already lost for the demiurge.
Who knew Pelosi could use a nail gun to commit suicide like that.
Damn, isn't Pelosi HOT? What a pic!
Who ever in News room choice that pic of Pelosi obviously is pro-TPP, pro-NeoLiberal, or got one last phone call from Murdoch.
nancy fuckin' pelosi is needed to demonstrate common sense now? west is east and east is west. bruce gender is normal. priests can both molest a kid and collect a pension. cops are sposeta be mean. nancy p needs to go back to being a mindless slug or my head is gonna splode.
Jenner's real sickness is always wanting to be in the spotlight. Much more corrosive than his weird sex hangups.
I love it when the communists go picnicking on each other.
Pelosi was NOT 'taking a stand for America' as the propagandists have put out. She wasn't getting anything outta the deal and so opposed it.
We need to shoot Congress. Every last damned on of 'em.
LMAO, not keeping up with the latest headlines?
Of course, everyone here knows you are referring to filming with a camera.
You know this means war! https://youtu.be/P9jHa-y24hM
So now Pissyosi is a goody guy? Mrs. "we have to pass it to see what's in it"? It's really hard to keep up with the motives of these sonofabitches, and to be frank, i'm tired of trying.
An exam the president couldn't cram for.
What an ass to leave it til the last minute.
I love Nance so much I'd give her Oral right now
I hope your Obamacare premium is paid up
You'll rot yer teeth out!
Here's what I gleaned from other stories:
Peace Prize went to the Dems and was very scolding and condescending
He said that voting out TAA to sabotage fast track was "playing politics" and reflected badly on their personal "integrity".
He was there for 20 minutes, scolded them for their perfidy and left without taking questions or comments
He overreached in how he handled himself. Made it easy for the Dems to vote no.
Pelousy had to cave. Obama made it i,possible to whip the weakling Progtards into compliance
Hussein's hissy fit must have been a sight to see.
So long Obamascam.
Read this hours ago on my phone but couldn't comment.
It appears that people are confused why Pelosi is doing something sensible and popular. That should be no reason for confusion. The DNC is merely pivoting because in the not too distant future there will be an election and Obama will no longer be president. If the establishment democrats go along with Obama's lame duck plans then the proverbial albatross will be hung from their necks come election time. If they delay TPP until (they hope) the next democrat president is elected then they have 3.5 years to manage the fallout by repeating "not a scandal" every time an obvious lie crops up (it's worked for a term and a half already).
tl;dr- don't be surprised to see the democrats and the media more critical of Obama in the coming year, it's all part of the game.
I never thought the day would come when I would have something good to say about Pelosi. I wonder whether they are ice skating in H3LL right now...
So Oompa Loompa is gonna call a House re-vote for Tuesday
Today was 102-302
So Pelousy and Boehner have to flip 101, give or take.
I bet at least 40 Dems cave or surrender to threat.
Can The R's peel off emough to make the differnce?
There is always time to bid 'em up!
My thinking exactly, they want bribe money for the next election. The pols are extorting cash for their campaigns with this vote.
Dems are hanging on TAA which has subsisies for displaced workers. A deal is in the works so the number that has to be flipped is probably just a couple or few. Gotta love that, cash for workers they allowed to be screwed in the first place. Protections? HAHAHAHA IMA fuck ya' but don't worry I gotta dollar for ya after
All they have to do is publish the entire treaties. I suppose there might be some good things in them. But since they tried to keep them secret I suppose that is too much to ask.
Odd. Usually, pretty much anything Pelousy is for, I'm generally against. Awkward to actually agree with her. But, I'm sure the ZWO has it's reasons for this. Maybe just their way of getting the ante upped for eventual passage.
Gonna make a prediction based on this. This is the end of Paul Ryan's national political career.
Why couldnt this set up the 'legal' framework to import rich Chinese who wish to take possession of that which they own on paper, as well as the rationale for exporting undesirables to one of those ghost cities in the smog cloud? And, no, I'm not taking about niggers. They are very desired here, and definately not welcome there.
The discipline of the Democrats as a voting block under the control of Pelosi and Reid is impressive.
Okay, I'll take one for the team. Tell Nancy to come on up to BDM's motor home and I'll rub her bunions and sand paper her corns.
I fully suspect this crap will PASS come next Tuesday.
The weekend will see moar brown envelopes stuffed with ferns passed out.
Tuesday we will get it up the ass again.
Since we do not know what's in it, we know it is of no good to Americans.
Vote only for Libertarians or other small independents.
Of course, the issues themselves are important but...
A reasonable narrative: Everyone is maneuvering for the next election. As desvatatingly unpopular as Obama's policies, even those that self-duped themselves into voting for him, Democrats need to go into the next election being able to say 'look we weren't rubber stamps, we opposed the president in many areas, even this big trade bill position we opposed."
Republicans will be able to say "we weren't against him on everything. We desperately tried to help him on trade."
Everyone's polishing their positions even though neither side really trusts this president. Obama's visit to Capitol Hill was the first in years.
Obama will be known as a generational mistake.
EPI Identifies Poisonous Immigration Acceleration Ingredients In Trade Agreement
What a theater.
Japanese are pasturing TTP by not allowing to destroy their most expensive in the world rice industry by removing tariffs. If they don't Vietnam and Philippines are out since they know that only reason for them to sing up is to open Japanese markets for their cheap foods.
TTIP is currently dead due to the same agricultural reasons. European parliament submit hundreds amendments to the agreement before they know what it really is, practically stopping it.
I do not mention the major reason of apprehension i.e. financial services agreement that would do away with any kind of sovereignty once for all.
I wish it was real or significant but it is all just a charade to let US and EU politicians pasturing before elections and present themselves as defenders of the freedom as meaninglessly as it sounds.
In the end they all will do what they are paid for namely bend over and submit to global oligarchs' perversions.
Short memories all around...
Historical fact:
When Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her re-election bid on Saturday it put Barack Obama in the record books as the two-term president with the most midterm losses for his party.
Major root cause: Obamacare. 58 Democratic Senators and two liberal Independents voted to pass Obamacare in 2009. 28 Democratic Senators Who Voted For Obamacare Are No Longer in Office.The record previously was held by Harry Truman.
Truman's Democratic Party lost 74 seats in 1946 and 1950, while under Obama the Democrats have lost a total of 75 seats in 2010 and 2014.
Standard Disclaimer: Perhaps some of the Democrats actually decided to read the TPP this go around, not to mention a strong desire not to lose their jobs in 2016.
Nice work, Tyler .... for Prez ... got everybody motivated
Peter Van Buren, a veteran of the State Department, points out here why the middle class is getting the raw end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fj_q0rga7w
There really is a war going on between the interests of the corporate, banking elite and the middle class and the people with the money are winning.
Just look at that photo of O and P. Identical make-up. Identical theater. Identical purpose.
What we got was differential spin to make us cheer the new big shaft. George Carlin growls in his grave.
Pelosi thinking like a conservative. Inconceivable.
Ummmmm, WOW! I can't stand Pelosi, but she did what I would do, but I disagree with her 100%, except in this case. Dang! I'm so confused! Help me, Spock! This is illogical. I, Mudd!
That is, Harcort Fenton Mudd.
Nancy never seems to object over the fact the trade deal is being kept a secret. She only objects it isn't "a good enough deal", so I'm not really impressed at all with the vote.