Posted on 06/18/2016 5:16:03 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
Rep. Randy Forbes, GOP establishment stalwart and longtime Obamatrade supporter from Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, will soon be unemployed. Voters rejected him in favor of his primary opponent Scott Taylor, who stridently opposed Obamatrade.
Taylor blasted Forbes for voting to give President Obama fast track authority to ram through Congress the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping 12-nation international regulatory pact that would merge our economy with some of the poorest and most repressive on earth.
This move was especially hypocritical for Forbes, chairman of the House Prayer Caucus. Obamatrade would give special economic privileges to countries that persecute Christians, including Vietnam, Malaysia and the Shariah-law regime of Brunei.
After his disastrous vote for fast track, Forbes tried to tap dance around the Constitution-shredding, religious-liberty-trampling Obamatrade agreement.
In a letter to constituents, Forbes recycled the party establishment’s globalist talking points, saying free trade is “crucial to our economy” and to “our future as a country.”
Then Forbes said he would support Obamatrade if it were amended, glossing over the fact that his vote for fast track surrendered Congress’ power to amend the agreement.
While Forbes played cute, former Navy SEAL Scott Taylor issued a clarion call against the misbegotten pact.
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Maybe this is what Nehlen needs to pound home to rid us of LYIN RYAN!!!!
It’s going too happen to more of them too.
Good riddance.
I'm pretty ambivalent about it because I see it as really just one big trade-off (either way) ... between a high standard of living (in the "free trade" scenario) and a large employment base (in a protectionist scenario).
It took a long time, but I finally recognized these trade agreements for what they really are: the American strategy for replacing the slave labor we lost after the Civil War.
Bye! Don’t come back, ya hear!
Ted Cruz voted FOR Obama’s one sided fast track scam too...But he voted FOR Obama’s one sided Iran nuclear deal too so no one should really be surprised.
The GOPe has their head so far up their butt they cannot tell there is a wind shift.
>> No, it didn’t <<
Please don’t confuse us with the facts.
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