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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThird Way's Jim Kessler tweets Trade Deal back on floor in 7 to 10 days.
He tweets it over and over. Here is his tweet to the National Journal.
Jim Kessler @ThirdWayKessler · 20h 20 hours ago
.@nationaljournal This bill is back on the floor in 7 to 10 days. Dems trying to win concessions on must move legislation.
And he goes with the scare tactic about China which we have been hearing a lot.
Jim Kessler @ThirdWayKessler · 16h 16 hours ago
.@HorsleyScott @nprnews Well, China will be writing those rules if we don't pass #tpa
Kessler's the one who recently made his position clear about we the people of the party who are fighting back against the secretive trade deal.
The Trade Deal Tearing the Dems Apart
Obama continued his war on Warren through the weekend, reminding Democrats that she doesnt walk on water, that shes a politician. Warren, he insists, is fighting an old fight going back to NAFTA, a free trade agreement signed by President Clinton in 1994.
He should have done this long ago, says Jim Kessler, a founder of Third Way, a centrist Democratic group that is pro-trade. Hes allowed Democrats to take a two-by-four to his signature economic achievement of his second term, which is to expand exports in the biggest market of the world, Asia. He needed to treat these attacks on it as though Ted Cruz were making them. Instead, he made it feel like if youre a Democrat you can say anything and hes not going to care.
He's "allowed" us to do it? Catch that word allowed?
I am a Democrat, and I feel I don't need to run what I say by Third Way Kessler or the president.
And he's the one who says ISDS is no big deal at all.
ISDS allows companies to sue host countries in special ad hoc tribunes. Phillip Morris is currently using ISDS to challenge regulations in foreign countries on packaging cigarettes with prominent health warnings that might discourage sales. Corporations have won in other countries, but never in the United States. The ISDS argument borders on silly, says Kessler. Weve never lost a case and nothing will happen to Dodd-Frank. Warrens argument is as off-base as death panels, he says, a comparison that Obama also makes.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)It will be back on the floor in 7-10 days.
think
(11,641 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)the country is screwed except for 1%
Robbins
(5,066 posts)we worry about the people in this country over what China may or may not do?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)and bet on it!
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals
A Salvadoran delegation is in Canada this week to warn of how investor provisions threaten democracy, public health, and environment
In a case illustrating the dangers of corporate-friendly provisions buried in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret tribunal is on the brink of issuing a ruling any day that that could force the Central American country of El Salvador to pay $301 million to a Canadian-Australian gold-mining firm.El Salvador's government says the mining company never complied with the minimum legal requirements for obtaining a permit. In addition, there are serious concerns about the social and environmental impacts of mining in a nation where more than 90 percent of the surface water supply is already contaminated, and more than 50 percent of the 6.3 million people depend on one fragile watershed for drinking water.
OceanaGold, which purchased the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining in 2013, is suing El Salvadorthe most water-stressed country in the regionfor an amount equivalent to 5 percent of its gross domestic product for refusing to grant it a permit to put a gold mine into operation.
But in the wake of the permit rejectionand after the first of three successive Salvadoran Presidents committed to an effective moratorium on new mining projectsPacific Rim filed a lawsuit in 2009 before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a little-known World Bank-based tribunal.
Since purchasing Pacific Rim in 2013, Australia's OceanaGold has "stubbornly continued with the case," according to a press release from MiningWatch Canada. The company claims that under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, it has the right to sue the Salvadoran government for passing a law that threatens its bottom line. The ICSID is poised to issue its ruling sometime in 2015.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/11/amid-tpp-fight-el-salvador-mining-case-shows-danger-corporate-tribunals
"As the TTIP and TPP negotiations continue, Pacific Rim vs. El Salvador should remind us not to privilege foreign investors to the detriment of the nationalor globalgood."
Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies
Robbins
(5,066 posts)if TPP is passed.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Kessler should not be saying we never lost and never will. One never knows.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)tritsofme
(17,403 posts)TPA will pass the Senate with broad bipartisan support. The real fight will be in the House.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)There is only one party anymore.The corporate party.
time we all stop falling for the public campagin with some exceptions there isn't any different between GOP and Dems anymore.
It took TPP to finally show me for sure that.I was complete sucker for supporting Obama.so was all the others against iraq as well
as unions since he is going to help kill unions with TPP.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)has a long tradition. One that progressives would like to break, and I guess it begins by calling Kessler out for his dismissive attitude. It's all too common around my local area. Once they get into office they think they have the right to breach their fiduciary responsibilities if they can come up with an elevator pitch that ends with the words, "for the good of the community." And it never, never fails that those shadow programs always benefit the same people, and undermine the rights of everyone else.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)just clarified it all.
Like how dare we question, how dare the president "allow" us to speak out against Third Way plans.
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)thinking person.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Democratic president deriding the progressives of our party. Not that it's a surprise.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)What next? Is he going to claim the opponents are on Beijing's payroll?
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)They love to bait those of us who don't fall in line. They have been doing it since the late 80s, and they don't care if it angers us.
Maybe they really really don't need us anymore.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Money honey. And none for the bottom 90%
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)Keep us informed.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Done deal.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)A bought one.
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Again.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Guess the hell who runs our country now? Not us, for sure.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)when he made the mistake of co-authoring his now infamous attack on her in the WSJ.
He needed to treat these attacks on it as though Ted Cruz were making them.
This is where all the attacks on the Left of the party have been coming from.
Starting around 2004 was when I first noticed them on 'liberal' forums.
'Reality based world'
'ponies'
'pet issues' (meaning minority rights and women's rights, which 'they' were not going to allow to cause them to lose)
'extreme left'
'Professional Left' - that's one of their favorites.
Their goal is to demean democrats, to take over this party to push their Wall St agenda and get rid of those in the party who are a threat to those plans.
Watch for the talking points, they are not hard to find.