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But the resolve of politicians is usually pretty pliable. :/

many will fall in line.

Senate, and Bernie running for President. They make an excellent team. If only Grayson could become
the Democratic leader of the House, it would just about complete the job.

with Marco Rubio running for President?

I think more 'L'eaders and 'l'eaders are going to be appearing in the House and Senate - not just the household names....In the past I think there were those who didn't have any back-bone and/or they felt once they were elected they could have care-taker jobs - some didn't really know their own inner voices....In the long run I think politics is more about who you know than what you know....But it is my sincere hope and suggestion that with Sanders' run, his presence is going to change the sycophant structure and many will jump to get on his coat tails.

seniority in both the Senate and the House have been ineffectual leaders. We need
a change. Third Way Dems. have proven themselves to be failures. They couldn't
handle the Corporatists, even when they had the majority in both the House and the
Senate, and blew that rare opportunity away.

I think because Bernie brings his socialist conditions to leadership he can see problems and offer remedies. If you listen to Richard Wolff, it has long been taboo to criticize capitalism in this country.

So you have our Democratic Party leadership and they (with very few exceptions) no of nothing outside the beltway. Running the country into the ground through bad trade agreements, economic policies, foreign policy disasters one right after the other....Their credentials and careers are founded upon being sycophants rather than being visionaries. And I hate to name names but it goes right to the top - in the House with Pelosi and Wasserman-Schulz.....I have long been reading about the predicament of the Florida Democratic Party on these pages.....I heard Ron Dellums interviewed recently on Democracy Now - Nancy Pelosi isn't fit to walk in his shoes.

The TAA failed. Whoop te do. Now workers displaced by the TPP will have no retraining, no relief, and no hope.

Make no mistake - the house republicans WILL PASS the TPP without one Democratic vote and all the workers displaced by it will be SOL.

Bernie Sanders is so intent on looking important that he has perpetually failed to actually be important.

by cutting $700 million from Medicare. Yeah, that'll help The last thing in DC that needs a cut is Medicare. TPP needs to be shut down period. If TPP is so great for the American worker, why the need for the TAA?

The president is for it, and if it is bad for Americans, but good for corporations, it will definitely pass the house and take only a couple Democrats to support it in the senate, and it will be law.

Meantime, millions of Americans will be displaced by the TPP and there won't be any help
Or retraining for them because of this little fit of pique from the house Democrats, who slit their own throats.

Bernie Sanders and his ilk don't get it. They think stopping the TAA that serves to help workers somehow stops the TPP and that's just god damn ignorant.

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) is a federal program of the United States government to act as a way to reduce the damaging impact of imports felt by certain sectors of the U.S. economy. The current structure features four components of Trade Adjustment Assistance: for Workers, Firms, Farmers, and Communities. Each Cabinet level Department was tasked with a different sector of the overall Trade Adjustment Assistance program. The program for workers is the largest, and administered by the U.S. Department of Labor. The program for Farmers is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Firms and Communities programs are administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Trade Adjustment Assistance consists of four programs authorized under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and defined further under the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. § 2341 et seq) (Trade Act). The original idea for a trade compensation program goes back to 1939.[1] Later, it was proposed by President John F. Kennedy as part of the total package to open up free trade. President Kennedy said: “When considerations of national policy make it desirable to avoid higher tariffs, those injured by that competition should not be required to bear the full brunt of the impact. Rather, the burden of economic adjustment should be borne in part by the Federal Government.”[2]............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Adjustment_Assistance