TREASON: Senate Republicans Give Obama Terrifying New Powers
There has been quite a bit of debate surrounding the so-called “free trade” deal with numerous Pacific Rim nations being put forward by President Barack Obama known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The trade agreement has raised opposition not only from staunch conservatives opposed to Obama’s globalist agenda, but also from most liberals who worry the agreement is dangerous for unions and favors massive multi-national corporations.
Sadly, most moderate Republicans, who favor those same corporations themselves, have supported Obama’s trade agreement, and some Senate Republicans just voted to give Obama virtually unlimited and undefined powers regarding negotiating its details.
Forty-eight Republicans joined with 14 Democrats on Friday to pass a bill known as the Trade Promotion Authority, which essentially fast-tracks Obama’s proposed trade agreement by cutting out debate and amendments in Congress, relegating them to a simple up-or-down vote on the final trade pact.
“This is an important bill, likely the most important bill we will pass this year. It’s important to President Obama,” said Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and author of the fast-track bill.
According to The Washington Post, the TPA bill will now go to the House, where it is expected to meet fierce resistance from both Republicans and Democrats.
Obama’s trade agenda now rests in the hands of unlikely allies like Speaker of the House John Boehner and Ways and Means Committee chair Paul Ryan, both of whom have been pushing the trade agreement for the benefit of their corporate masters.
Of course, conservatives and libertarians are not at all opposed to free trade, and if that were what this trade agreement was really about, then it would pass with overwhelming support.
Instead, this agreement is actually just part of a globalist agenda that seeks to undermine U.S. sovereignty and congressional oversight, includes a secret provision that allows the deal to be changed later without congressional input, increases the rate at which American jobs will bleed from the country to foreign competitors, and places American businesses at the mercy of international panels and regulations, instead of U.S. law.
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