Congress will flush TPP down the toilet, White House concedes

[millefleur 5,047]

Congress will flush TPP down the toilet, White House concedes

White House officials conceded on Friday that the president’s hard-fought-for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would not pass Congress, as lawmakers there prepared for the anti-global trade policies of President-elect Donald Trump.

Earlier this week, congressional leaders in both parties said they would not bring the trade deal forward during a lame-duck session of Congress, before the formal transition of power on 20 January.

The Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, who will be minority leader in the next Congress, told union leaders the trade deal would not pass. Senator Mitch McConnell, the chamber’s Republican majority leader, told reporters “no” when asked if Congress would consider the TPP.

The deal has supporters in both parties but became a campaign symbol for lost manufacturing jobs, especially in the rust belt states.

The TPP would have included the US and 11 countries in Asia, South America and the south Pacific, and was designed in large part to curb the growing economic influence of China.

But it was attacked almost daily by Trump, who called it "a continuing rape of our country” and argued that as a symbol of globalized manufacturing in general, it had sent jobs from the US to other countries and damaged the American economy.

via The Guardian

Edited November 12, 2016 by millefleur

[yuna628 9,736]

I would hope that the TIPP would be dead as well.

[MarkPerry 488]

Another failure by Obama

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Another failure by Obama

One of the best presidents ever lol. Well at least Jimmy Carter isn't the worst in my life anymore

[MarkPerry 488]

One of the best presidents ever lol. Well at least Jimmy Carter isn't the worst in my life anymore

That's funny, I have been saying that for years. History will prove this fact, just as it showed how poor and ineffective leader Carter was. They are like Dumb & Dumber

[Póg mo 1,749]

One of the best presidents ever lol. Well at least Jimmy Carter isn't the worst in my life anymore

Or Nixon who got himself impeached, or Bush who started wars,exploded the deficit and Trump...who probably will end getting himself impeached for lining his own pockets. But do go on, with your partisan claptrap.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Or Nixon who got himself impeached, or Bush who started wars,exploded the deficit and Trump...who probably will end getting himself impeached for lining his own pockets. But do go on, with your partisan claptrap.

Started wars and exploded the debt. Hmm sound oddly like Obummer

[MarkPerry 488]

Or Nixon who got himself impeached, or Bush who started wars,exploded the deficit and Trump...who probably will end getting himself impeached for lining his own pockets. But do go on, with your partisan claptrap.

Nixon was actually a very intelligent man, I can barely remember him in the whitehouse and he was never impeached.

Bill Clinton was impeached. But to go back to Carter he was a horrible President, he was in over his head, no leadership, we were bullied around by other countries, the American pride was gone when we was President, Much like today with Obama

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Nixon was actually a very intelligent man, I can barely remember him in the whitehouse and he was never impeached.

Bill Clinton was impeached. But to go back to Carter he was a horrible President, he was in over his head, no leadership, we were bullied around by other countries, the American pride was gone when we was President, Much like today with Obama

July 27, 1974. Look it up. Nixon resigned before the impeachment process was completed but he was impeached.

[yuna628 9,736]

Nixon was actually a very intelligent man, I can barely remember him in the whitehouse and he was never impeached.

Bill Clinton was impeached. But to go back to Carter he was a horrible President, he was in over his head, no leadership, we were bullied around by other countries, the American pride was gone when we was President, Much like today with Obama

Nixon was essentially almost impeached (the full thing concluding with removal from office) with certainty. He resigned in disgrace to avoid being fully impeached and was not acquitted. Ford pardoned him, which is perhaps worse than an acquittal but an acknowledgement from his own VP that Nixon had committed a crime. Clinton was acquitted and fell short of the 17 votes required for impeachment that most Americans care to understand which is removal from office. As Wikipedia states: Clinton was acquitted, becoming the second sitting United States President to be formally charged with a crime (impeached) and subsequently declared not guilty (acquitted).

[Póg mo 1,749]

Nixon was actually a very intelligent man, I can barely remember him in the whitehouse and he was never impeached.

He was a crook, who had to leave office, because he would have been impeached. Crooks are OK, so long as they are Democrats, then forget due process.

Bill Clinton was impeached.

Yet finished his two terms in office.

But to go back to Carter he was a horrible President, he was in over his head, no leadership, we were bullied around by other countries,

He also finished his term in office. The Iran revolution was not of his making. Someone in an earlier administration thought they could monkey around in Iran's politics and think everything would be hunky dory.

the American pride was gone when we was President, Much like today with Obama

Yes unlike Bush, who you conveniently left out.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

July 27, 1974. Look it up. Nixon resigned before the impeachment process was completed but he was impeached.

Still the fact remains he was not impeached

[MarkPerry 488]

July 27, 1974. Look it up. Nixon resigned before the impeachment process was completed but he was impeached.

Incorrect, I watched it on TV with my own two eyes, He was never impeached.

You need to study history

[Póg mo 1,749]

Then there is saint Ronald Reagan, who illegally sold Iran arms in order to finance the contra rebels and their trail of death and destruction.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Still the fact remains he was not impeached

Your heros are quitters, Fascists, and lean towards bigotry Mr. Middle of the Road.

Nixon was impeached. Quitting before it was completed is not going to work as a claim it didn't happen.