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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Sat Jun 13, 2015, 12:27 PM Jun 2015

Behind Pelosi's break with Obama on trade

The Hill

Behind Pelosi's break with Obama on trade

By Scott Wong

President Obama probably knew his trade agenda was going down in flames hours before the first votes were even cast in the House on Friday afternoon.

That morning, Obama made a rare visit to the Capitol to try to salvage legislation he needed to complete a major 12-nation Pacific trade deal. It was there, in the second-floor office of one of his closest allies in Congress, that he got the bad news.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the president she was leaning no on a workers-aid bill the linchpin to a broader package granting Obama so-called fast track trade authority.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/244919-how-obamas-trade-agenda-collapsed

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Behind Pelosi's break with Obama on trade (Original Post) Panich52 Jun 2015 OP

This - WTF? djean111 Jun 2015 #1

Only the RW echo chamber says Pres Obama is too liberal... Wounded Bear Jun 2015 #2

Presidents just don't always live up to their promise. The job itself has a lot to do w/ it Panich52 Jun 2015 #3

djean111

(14,255 posts)

1. This - WTF?

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 12:41 PM

Jun 2015

Finally, Obama warned Democrats not to start acting like Republicans, whose emphasis on party purity has often sowed dysfunction in Washington.
Seems to me like he wanted the Dems to vote like the Republicans, in addition to voting yes because they were Democrats. This had nothing to do with party purity, unless he meant vote for things you do not like, and your constituents don't like, Because Party.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)

2. Only the RW echo chamber says Pres Obama is too liberal...

Reply to djean111 (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 01:32 PM

Jun 2015

Most Democrats wish he was half as liberal as he's accused of from the right. I know I do.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)

3. Presidents just don't always live up to their promise. The job itself has a lot to do w/ it

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 15, 2015, 01:13 PM

Jun 2015

Ideology can clash w/ reality. Repubs run into this problem constantly, but lib pols can also find themselves in a quandry. Obama is holding true in social issues but on financisl, foreign policy (at least as far as troops deploy goes) & this trade fight, yes, not so lib seems to be the case.

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