Monday, April 27, 2015

Warren says President Obama, not her, is wrong on TPP. There's an easy way to find out who's right

[If there's nothing secret and dangerous in there, Mr. President, then why won't you let the public see it? Secrecy breeds distrust.]
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Rss@dailykos.com (meteor Blades) · Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 2:41 pm
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Bad news, but how bad can't be determined until we see the treaty.
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A day after President Obama said in a Hardball interview that Elizabeth Warren is wrong in her views about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Massachusetts senator fired back with a blog post on her campaign website that gets right to the heart of the matter:
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The Administration says I'm wrong-that there's nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment, and human rights. Promises-but people like you can't see the actual deal.
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For more than two years now, giant corporations have had an enormous amount of access to see the parts of the deal that might affect them and to give their views as negotiations progressed. But the doors stayed locked for the regular people whose jobs are on the line.
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Here's Obama in his Tuesday interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews:
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"I love Elizabeth. We're allies on a whole host of issues. But she's wrong on this," he said.
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"I would not be doing this trade deal if I did not think it was good for the middle class," Obama added. "And when you hear folks make a lot of suggestions about how bad this trade deal is, when you dig into the facts, they are wrong."

Somebody is definitely wrong. And that being the case, the rush to approve this treaty, this pig in a poke, is obscene.
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