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2015-05-14 Economy

Sen. Hatch: "most important" trade bill in US history must be handled vewy, vewy secretly

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-14 13:10|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Bull $#it.

This is the kind of thing that got the Republicans their bad reputation. RINO support for the oligarchs, in secret.

Talk about handing the loons on the left the stick to beat you with.

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-14 14:15|| 2015-05-14 14:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The secrecy stinks so bad even Sen. Barbara Boxer has been quoted complaining about it.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-14 14:53|| 2015-05-14 14:53|| Front Page Top

#3 That settles it. Orin Hatch is down with it. Next Cornyn will say how important it is.
Take it out and burn it.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-14 14:54|| 2015-05-14 14:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't just say no, say HELL NO.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-14 15:02|| 2015-05-14 15:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Kill it. Burn it. Take the people that support it out and dump them in the middle of the Atlantic from 15,000 feet.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-14 15:19|| 2015-05-14 15:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I think I know why it has to be handled secretly: they plan to cram through the big expansion in H1B visas that businesses want, and they know how toxic that is right now.

Posted by Steve White 2015-05-14 16:01|| 2015-05-14 16:01|| Front Page Top

#7 This takes 'we have to pass it to see what's in it' to an entirely new level.

F! U! Hatch!

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-14 16:23|| 2015-05-14 16:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Hatch was best buddies with Ted Kennedy.

Posted by Vinegar Bumble3528 2015-05-14 16:24|| 2015-05-14 16:24|| Front Page Top

#9 SEN. ORRIN HATCH: Well, wait a minute.

What this bill does is, it provides the procedural mechanism where Congress can get into all of those issues once we pass this bill. In other words, it’s the way we can have total transparency. Plus, the reason that they’re — you can — members of Congress and their staffs can go see these matters right now, but the reason that they’re so tightly controlled is because they haven’t entered into them yet.

They have got to complete them. They didn’t want people tearing them down before they actually get them done. But, when they’re done, we will be able to look at them. We will know every aspect of them. It will be TPA that provides the mechanism for us to really look at those.

In other words - once we weld the shackles to your ankles and wrists, you will be free to look at them and see what they are. Until then you don't want you to actually see the shackles or the 2-Ton steel ball they are attached to because you might have some objection!

Just put your arms and legs thru these holes in the wall... no need to see what's on the other side.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-14 16:33|| 2015-05-14 16:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Yep fool that's about right.

The shackles and chains are those provisions that give international "tribunals" the authority to rule over anything that can be spun as "trade".

Think of our "elastic clause" in the constitution. Guns? that's trade, the UN has to rule if you're allowed to have one. Healthcare? The trade council has to rule if US workers have sufficient healthcare (see NIH), and on and on until every freedom is gone to the NWO OWG on which Joe M has waxed so poetic.

They keep pushing and pushing. What is the "bridge too far"?

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-14 19:17|| 2015-05-14 19:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Considering Obama's last trade deal was 5 terrorists for 1 deserter I think we need more transparency not zero.

Posted by Airandee 2015-05-14 20:37|| 2015-05-14 20:37|| Front Page Top

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