FOLKS... I'M BEGGING YOU TO READ THIS... TO CALL YOUR
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS... CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE... CALL YOUR SENATORS...
* * *
"Americans have seen their sovereignty, economic position, and political power erode. They have seen that power transferred to an elite set who dream of writing rules in foreign capitals, unburdened by the concerns of the ordinary citizen. To read the trade agreement is to know that, if Congress adopts the fast-track, it will have pre-approved a vast delegation of sovereign authority to an international union, with growing powers over the lives of ordinary Americans. Like the Gang of Eight, like ObamaCare, and so much else — the goal is to get it approved before the American people know what’s in it."
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, is
issuing one final clarion call against ObamaTrade as the House readies to vote
on the matter on Friday.
* MAKE THAT RINO/OBAMA TRADE!
Sessions’ final “critical alert,” one of several he’s
issued throughout the ObamaTrade process, shows House Ways and Means Committee
chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been engaged in deception as he attempts to
guide ObamaTrade’s passage through the House.
* ...SHOWS PAUL RYAN HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN DECEPTION...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
“Promoters of fast-track executive authority have relied
on semantic obfuscation in an effort to deny the obvious: the President’s top
priority is obtaining fast-track authority because he knows it will expand his
powers and allow him to cement his legacy through the formation of a new
political and economic union,” Sessions said.
* SESSIONS CONTINUED...
"If, as promoters amazingly suggest, the President
had more powers without fast-track, he would veto it."
* DUH!
"The authority granted in “Trade Promotion
Authority” is authority transferred from Congress to the Executive and,
ultimately, to international bureaucrats."
* YEP...
"The entire purpose of fast-track is for Congress to
surrender its power to the Executive for six years."
* YEP...
Legislative concessions include: control over the content
of legislation, the power to fully consider that legislation on the floor, the
power to keep debate open until Senate cloture is invoked, and the
constitutional requirement that treaties receive a two-thirds vote. Legislation
cannot even be amended.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
It’s unclear what will happen when it does come up for a
vote today in the House, but one thing is absolutely certain: Pass or fail,
Ryan’s credibility on the Right is shot.
* HE... DOESN'T... CARE...! FOLKS... HOW MANY TIMES DO I
NEED TO SAY IT - THE MASK IS OFF!
What’s more, there’s likely to be a conservative
grassroots rebellion against Establishment Republicans in Washington that may
dwarf the one ObamaCare caused back in 2010.
* WE CAN ONLY PRAY...
(*NOD*)
Without granting Obama fast-track authority, Sessions
notes that Congress remains in charge of trade policy and negotiations.
Congress would keep the ability to amend trade deals and the Senate would still
have power to filibuster against them — but that’s only if the House shoots
down TPA on Friday. If the House passes TPA, there’s no telling what President
Obama might do with the new power Congress would be ceding to him.
* THE TRACK RECORD IS PRETTY CLEAR, THOUGH...
(*SIGH*)
“By contrast, without fast-track, Congress retains all of
its legislative powers, individual members retain all of their procedural
tools, and every single line, jot, and tittle of trade text is publicly
available before any congressional action is taken,” Sessions said.
* AS THE CONSTITUTION CALLS FOR!
* SESSIONS CONTINUED...
"Another obfuscation is the suggestion that TPP
doesn’t yet exist. To the contrary, it has been under negotiation for six years
and lawmakers can enter a closed-door, walled-off chamber to review it. A vote
for fast-track is a vote to authorize the President to ink the secret deal contained
in these pages—to affix his name on the Union and to therefore enter the United
States into it."
* "...SIX YEARS..."
* "...CLOSED-DOOR, WALLED-OFF CHAMBER..."
* FOLKS! ARE... YOU... READING... THIS...?!?!
“The so-called negotiating objectives in the fast-track
bill are merely for show,” Nucor Steel chairman emeritus Dan DiMicco says.
According to Sessions, “The President can and does sign
the agreement before Congress views or votes on it.” Sessions continued, "fast-track
authority is the action that empowers the President to put America’s name on
the deal sitting in that walled-off room — before a page of it has been shared
with the public.”
(*PURSED LIPS*)
From there, Sessions went straight after Ryan... noting
that... both on the House and Senate sides, amendments that would have
specified “Congress retains exclusive legislative authority, and to actively
prohibit foreign worker increases” were blocked by ObamaTrade promoters.
(Some, including Rep. Steve King (R-IA), have fallen
victim to a phony solution backed by Ryan that wouldn’t fix the problem because
it would be an amendment to future legislation that has no guarantees of ever
becoming law.)
“Fast-track supporters have tried to temper concerns
about the formation of this transnational union, and the subsequent
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trade in Services
Agreement (TiSA) that would also be pre-approved through fast-track, by adding
additional “negotiating objectives” via a separate customs bill,” Sessions
said.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* AS SESSIONS EXPLAINED, THOUGH:
"The negotiating objectives are not binding, are not
meaningfully enforceable, and no individual lawmaker can strike any provision
which violates them. Fast-track keeps what congressional authority is left in
the hands of the revenues and Rules committees. Under the Ways and Means
‘solution,’ TPP, TTIP, and TiSA could establish broad goals for labor mobility
(allowing Ways and Means to say the negotiating objectives about ‘requiring’ or
‘obligating’ certain changes has not been violated) and the President would
then implement those changes through executive action, or change our laws
through fast-track."
* FOLKS... BOTTOM LINE... RINOs AND OBAMA (WITH THE HELP
OF A FEW GENUINELY CONFUSED AND MISGUIDED INDIVIDUALS LIKE CONGRESSMAN STEVE
KING - USUALLY ONE OF THE "GOOD GUYS") ARE SEEKING TO AMEND THE
CONSTITUTION WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE AMENDMENT PROCESS.
Sessions noted next how Ryan’s so-called “negotiating
objectives” are useless.
“Negotiating objectives are, by design, not explicit or
realistically enforceable,” Sessions said.
* KINDA HARD TO ARGUE WITH THAT!
"They include such bromides as saying it must be the
goal of the White House “to ensure that trade agreements reflect and facilitate
the increasingly interrelated, multi-sectoral nature of trade and investment
activity,” and “to recognize the growing significance of the Internet as a
trading platform in international commerce.” It stretches the outer bounds of
logic to contend that a President who happily disregards the Constitution will
be bound to obey a series of broad “negotiating objectives” — especially when
those objectives come with a promised surrender of congressional power," Sessions
pointed out.
Sessions then cited DiMicco again, and argued that this ObamaTrade
deal is not free trade.
"Finally, it must be observed that this is not a
“free trade” deal. It is, as Daniel DiMicco explained, a ‘unilateral trade
disarmament’ and ‘the enablement of foreign mercantilism,’ whereby we open our
markets to new foreign imports and they keep their non-tariff barriers that
close their markets to ours. President Obama refuses to answer questions about
the impact on unemployment, wage stagnation, and trade deficits. He refuses
because the answer is all three will get worse. For instance, a study published
in the Wall Street Journal showed that — due to barriers to U.S. auto exports — the
deal would increase foreign transportation imports over our exports by nearly
four-fold."
(*SILENCE*)
Sessions closed his statement by arguing that this deal
would further erode American sovereignty and economic strength worldwide, and
that’s why Establishment Republicans in Washington are trying so hard to rush
it through to final passage before Americans know what’s in it.
He noted too that this is just like ObamaCare and the
Senate’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill all over again.
(*NOD*)
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