Conservatives for trade — against bad legislation

• Fast track trade deal with Asia (TPP) up for vote in the Senate
• Surrenders oversight and to the wrong person
• Sessions cautions the Senate about rushing to a bad deal
• Conservative Daily points to Mitch McConnell as pushing the deal

Breitbart reports that conservative Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) took to the floor Monday with the message More Skepticism Of Trade Pacts Needed, Should Not Lose One Job To Trade Deal. Quoting Sessions:

“There needs to be a real analysis about the results of global trade agreements, but for some the sanctity of trade relationships have become tantamount to a religion, … “It is time to begin a vigorous analysis of our conduct of trade, . . . Do our policies and TPP concede too much to our mercantilist competitor allies?” . .  .

Any trade agreement we enter into should have a mutually beneficial economic impact on all parties to the agreement. It must not have the effect of continuing or furthering the decline of manufacturing in the United States. It should seek to end trade unfairness and to increase, not reduce, wages in the United States. We can no longer afford to lose a single job to an unfair trade deal. Not one. . . .

But the fast-track procedure ensures that any trade deal yet-unseen can pass through Congress with a minimum of actual scrutiny. After years of soaring trade deficits, shouldn’t we apply more scrutiny to trade agreements—not less? Are we afraid to ask tough questions? Take the issue of currency manipulation: this president has refused to confront this practice that provides a clear advantage for certain foreign countries. His negotiators have refused to put any provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Less gentile in their warning, an approach shared by us, is Conservative Daily where editor Joe Otto writes:

Mitch McConnell has promised that the U.S. Senate will surrender it’s treaty powers (once again) by the end of the week. . . .

Congress is about to give Barack Obama the power to put whatever he wants in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and then they will be powerless to change it!

There are a number of things that Obama could sneak into the bill and they are all terrifying. Even the liberal and union advisors who have read the agreement agree: this is a HORRIBLE trade agreement. . . .

It’s important to have a trade agreement with Asia and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could definitely bring Americans a lot of prosperity. But we have no idea what’s in it because the contents are being kept secret.

Otto lists some key matters that Obama could sneak into the trade agreement

President Obama could inject immigration reform – specifically with Asian countries – into the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the only way for Congress to stop it would be to scuttle the whole agreement (which would never happen). . . .

Otto also raises the specter of Internet regulations and global warming agreements. He continues:

For years, we have been fighting Obama’s executive orders and actions and now we’re supposed to just accept giving him a blank canvas to pass his liberal agenda? No way!

When I was young, my grandmother would always say that ‘even a broken clock is right twice a day.’ Right now, the Democrats are our best hope in getting this stopped.

We here at Conservative Daily have nothing against trade agreements. We firmly believe that we need a trade agreement with Asia.

But we are not willing to just let Barack Obama negotiate it on his own. There is a reason that the trade agreement is being kept secret. They don’t want you to know what is in it! . . .

Otto’s organization has links to a fax campaign to the Senate (costs involved).  Alternatively you can contact your Senators from the links we provide in our Legislative Links located on our page bar at top.

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