White House launches frantic campaign to save trade deal

politico.com ^ | 6/11/15 | Edward-Isaac Dovere

[cotton1706]

President Barack Obama and his aides launched a full-court press to save his trade package on Thursday, as House Democrats’ internal struggles pushed Obama’s top legislative priority perilously close to defeat.

As Obama made phone calls to reluctant Democrats from the White House, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Labor Secretary Tom Perez went face-to-face with trade opponents including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in a testy closed meeting on Capitol Hill.

It was unclear whether the White House was making any progress.

Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) asked McDonough whether the president could use his leverage with Republicans — who “desperately want” the legislation to pass — to push for changes that would make the bill more palatable for Democrats.

“McDonough just blew that off,” said Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) “So I got up and said, ‘You’re telling us we’ve got to facilitate your deal on this TAA — which is not a very good package — and the president can’t do anything. And I said, ‘That’s bullshit.’ And it is. It’s bullshit.”

While Obama’s push for a large-scale trade deal with the Pacific Rim cleared an important hurdle by a razor-thin margin on Thursday afternoon, the outcome of a Friday vote on TAA, a worker assistance program central to the larger trade debate, will likely still be a nail-biter.

[cotton1706]

It won't be a nail-biter. They'll hold the vote open until enough arms are twisted to push it over the top.

The only silver lining is that it's getting tougher and tougher to get these things through. They're being smoked out, being forced to show their hands, being forced to show who they really are and where their loyalties REALLY lie.

They're all one big cabal that pretend to be enemies.

[alstewartfan]

Absolutely. This “fight” is a done deal, and Americans get shafted again.

[servantboy777]

If the commie occupying the oval office is frantically attempting to save this deal....it’s a very bad deal.

[Sasparilla]

No secret deals. Never.

[Liz]

SCAM ALERT: Obama launches frantic campaign to save his (cough) "trade deal."

Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations. TPA and TPP--Obama's immigration suck-ups---his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN---are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two Foundations (two that we know of).

These entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in- wait for his share.

Just the other day--Obama proudly bragged that “today, once again, the US is the most respected country on earth.”

So it doesn’t matter Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine....

Or that China knows it can continue grabbing key sea areas, building vast artificial islands on which to plant its flag (and weapons). Or that Bashar al-Assad is back to using chemical weapons, because Obama won't enforce his own “red line.”

As for Iran: It’s already breaking the “interim” US nuclear deal by building enriched-uranium stockpiles far larger than it promised. Iraq? In the same town-hall, Obama talks of how “we were able to end two wars."

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Obama learned from the Clintons how to get a big payday for his two foundations: look on w/ approval even if countries invade and depopulate.....and never e-v-e-r utter a discouraging word e-v-e-r.

Maybe even shake hands w/ foreign tyrants to get mining permits and million dollar honorariums as Clinton did in Kazakhstan.

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How well Obama learned at the knee of Hillary when she was Obama's Secy of State. At that time the "State Dept Mission Statement" mentioned that it would "create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community."

(Well, profitable for the Clinton Foundation, anyway.)

Now it looks like that "prosperous world" is gonna happen, thanks to Obama's two foundations (/snix).

more below

[Liz]

THE OBAMAS GET READY FOR THE BIG FOUNDATION PAYDAY Obama isnt even out of office yet---and already has two foundations (that we know of).

(1) "The Obama Foundation" announced the location of its library in Chicago.....revving up the next ex-president's money machine.

(2) The second Obama foundation----The Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF)---(named after their dad), was fast-tracked by Lois Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status....for Malik Obama, Barack's half brother.

The BHOF is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.

As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.

The tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama.

The foundation’s mission statement is “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.

Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”

Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.

Malik spends most of his time in Kenya with his 12 wives while Obama finances his half brother, Malik, a major fundraiser for the Muslim Bortherhood.

MORE HERE http://shoebat.com/shoebat-foundation/obamas-wahhabist-fundraising-empire

Kenya-resident, Malik Obama in Muslim dress, holds up
photo of his half brother Obama in Muslim dress, taken
during an earlier visit.

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GOVERTNMENT FRAUD AT ITS FINEST--deposited in numbered accounts in offshore banks?

Obama's federal outlays (that we know of).:

<><> $2 billion funding to Malik's organization---the Muslim Brotherhood,

<><> $50 million to Malik/Barack's tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Kenya.

<><> While the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama (and Hillary) showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes.

<><> Obama gave $90 million US tax dollars to wealthy oil-rich African countries.

[Don Corleone]

There is so much Agenda 21 in that load of horse hockey that the stench alone would pollute everything west of the Potomac..

[Liz]

HOW MUCH $$$$ HAS BEEN WIRE-TRANSFERRED TO OBAMA'S TWO FOUNDATIONS?

Breitbart News---The Clinton Foundation's Swedish branch is hiding the names of secret foreign donors who contributed $5.4 million in 2011 and 2012 to the William J. Clinton Foundation…....in violation of Obama's conditions for giving Hillary the State Dept.

REALITY CHECK It's next to impossible to believe Obama knows nothing about the Clintons' buck-raking activities.

Remember, Hillary dropped out of the primary so he could forge ahead. A deal was made...undisclosed to the electorate. Looks to me like they divided up the US govt. She got the State Dept.

Hillary ran it like a shadow govt. Bill trotted the globe acting like a "good will" ambassador.....he devised hundreds of obscure programs to collect billions.....supposedly dispersed to "aid" endless "do-good" projects.

Obama's protecting the Clintons---they're his meal ticket. All of them are living happily ever after--getting rich on "tolerance and compassion." Better believe Obama gets a cut of every deal the Clintons make.

[Liz]

Obama's still in office and has two Foundations (that we know of)---ready to cash-in like the Clintons by selling out US interests.

TAXPAYERS DEMAND LAWS WHICH BAN ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS FROM FORMING FOUNDATIONS

CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

[mrs ippi]

I have been fighting all day. We won on amnesty and we can win again NOW. Call, fax email. Scream .!!

[RC one]

and it will only be about free trade, it won’t involve any ulterior leftist motives or anything.

[absalom01]

Right. It’s such a good idea it has to be kept secret.

Sheesh.

[ntnychik]

Schemes of my father.

[MtnClimber]

Lets hope and pray it fails hugely. Who knows what control freak provisions are in there for the ruling elites. And the politicians should FEAR the retribution they could face if they betray their constituents.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Obama didn’t call me but hope he eats shit and dies.

[Leaning Right]

Republicans — who “desperately want” the legislation to pass

Why would that be? Well, it can all be explained in one word: bribes.

International business groups want this bill to pass.

Vote for it, and your campaign contributions will increase. And after you leave Congress, they'll be big-money speech-making to be had. And maybe a seat on a couple of Boards of Directors. Each seat will pay tens of thousands of dollars for a couple of days work per year. And there will be consulting agreements.

Vote against it, and you'll get your pension, and a couple of thank-you letters from some poor folks. Can't buy a second summer home that way, no siree.

[Stentor]

And after you leave Congress, they'll be big-money speech-making to be had.

Maybe a future IMF job for your wife.

[LucyT]

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SCAM ALERT:

Obama launches frantic campaign to save his (cough) "trade deal."

Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations. TPA and TPP--Obama's immigration suck-ups---his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN---are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two Foundations (two that we know of).

These entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in- wait for his share.

Check out article, and comments # 1 through # 9.

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[Yosemitest]

Rep Dave Brat (R) Virginia told us WHAT TO DO !


" GLENN: All right. So Friday is the day.
The vote happens TOMORROW.
And, Dave, what should people do?
Should we call our congressmen?

DAVE: Yeah.
Right.
Ask your congressmen to explain to you
what they know about it.

And if they don’t tell you anything,
say,
I don’t trust the current regime.
And I want A NO VOTE out of you.
I mean, that’s what —
the phone calls coming into my district are 21 against.
And I’m voting my constituents and my principles.
And in a year, if we sort this thing out and it becomes transparent and everything’s fine, I’m a free trader, I’ll vote yes.
But right now — Obamacare, right, it was so — it was going to lower costs.
Read the first sentence of Obamacare.
Right?
It will provide insurance to more people, and it will lower costs.
Well, it didn’t lower the costs.
Everybody has the check in the mail now.
You learn the hard way.
And you have a $5,000 deductible.
Oops.
We didn’t know that going in, in our talking points
And I’m worried the same thing can happen in this trade deal.
Oops.
There’s a little deal in there, and we missed it.
Well, that’s not good governance. "



"DAVE: ... But in this day and age, THE FIRST FEW WORDS ARE THE KEY.

We’ll GIVE TRADE AUTHORITY TO President Obama.
And that’s the — that’s the big asterisk.
So we’re going to give more authority to a president who has already done a run around us on executive amnesty, on the IRF, and the list just goes down and down and down.
Breaking promises on Obamacare, EPA overreach, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Some guys are in districts where trade is huge, and they’re representing their people, which is their job.
And so, you know, different representatives really do have a tough votes (Phoenix) at times.
But in my view, THERE'S TOO MANY NOSES IN THIS THING. "

Here's a link to THEBLAZE TV if you have a subscription.
Start at 02:34:35 and go thru to 02:48:45 .

Glenn Beck Radio Program 06-11-2015 ( 2:59:50 )

But the whole 3 hour show, especially with Rabbi Daniel Lapin from the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, is well worth your time.

Now that sentence IMMEDIATELY makes me AGAINST THE BILL:

We’ll GIVE TRADE AUTHORITY TO President Obama.

As long as THAT FACT is in the bill, I will NEVER be for it, and will ALWAYS BE AGAINST THAT BILL !
But let's look at what else he made clear.

" DAVE: ... Well, you guys probably covered the doc fix.
And on that thing, our leadership can go to Democrat leadership and find 300 votes, and it’s a done deal.
And worse than that,
our guys have dug into it. Mick Mulvaney and Jim Jordan have done great work on this thing.
And there are actually FIVE (5) HIGH HURDLES TO STOPPING THIS THING.
So basically if we vote yes
the best way to think about this thing is just a locomotive train.
Right?
If we hit go, that train is going forward, AND THERE'S NO STOPPING IT.
...
DAVE: ... It’s a living document.
The scariest part of it is that
IT CREATES this Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission.
And that commission will likely HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO NOT ONLY CHANGE ITS MEMBERSHIP AND THE AGREEMENT ITSELF,
BUT TO ISSUE REGULATIONS RELATING TO IMMIGRATION,
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CURRENCY POLICY, LABOR POLICY.
It’s an open-ended commission.
And that’s why I was using that locomotive analogy.
Once you start that train down the road, IN ORDER TO STOP IT YOU HAVE TO GO TO "NOs" IN ORDER TO STOP IT FROM
Ways and Means,
the Rules Committee,
Senate Finance,
and the House,
and the Senate.
SO THERE'S FIVE VOTES YOU NEED TO STOP IT.
So our conservative group, the Freedom Caucus, with Jim Jordan and all these guys, we’re trying to change the direction of that thing
so that any member can stop it. "

NEVER LET THIS ABOMINATION (Obama-Nation) OF A BILL GET STARTED.

KILL IT NOW !

[Calpublican]

Call your congressperson. I did. if it’s after hours, you can leave a message. Let them know.