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Politico is reporting that congressional leadership may not present the TPP deal for approval until after the 2016 election, during the lame duck session. Obviously this solidifies a particular reality all too common in Washington DC: If it is only politically safe to vote on the deal when no political election risk is evident, then you can be assured the deal is not in the best interest of the electorate.
Washington – Mike Sommers, chief of staff for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), said at a Ripon Society meeting that Congress was unlikely to move on the massive trade package until a lame-duck session more than a year from now.
Hazen Marshall, policy director for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who was also at the session, agreed that a TPP vote was more likely to happen in a lame-duck session, and added that the White House was trying to work with congressional leaders on timing. (more…)
Tom Donohue and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce were the primary group who negotiated the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal. Donohue also spent $20 million to bribe Mitch McConnell and senators in order to get fast-track legislation in place for passage.
Now the trade deal is finished labor unions want to see what’s in it. Donohue and the swarm of lawyers say not-so-fast there pal, we’ve got to scrub it down first. Using the same strategy as Obamacare, the CoC want the trade deal approved before the American people can see what’s in it.
WASHINGTON DC – One of the nation’s top labor leaders on Wednesday called on the Obama administration to immediately release the text of a far-reaching trade deal that spans the Pacific Rim to Latin America.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wrote a letter to President Obama arguing that stakeholders, lawmakers and the American public need to see the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to start what is expected to be a long process of evaluating the deal brokered by the United States and 11 other nations.
House and Senate Democrats have made similar appeals since the pact was brokered a week ago during a final round of negotiations in Atlanta. (more…)
This analysis is the precursor to the second part of what was written here yesterday: the first part of the latest Fox News poll.
Within the prior analysis we shared:
“Don’t expect the remaining embargo data (most likely GOP polling data) to be favorable to Donald Trump. Remember, there is a goal which never stops – THAT GOAL is the removal of Donald Trump at all costs. Promoting Ben Carson and Marco Rubio (to a lesser extent Fiorina) remains the media strategy”. (link)
The goal behind that strategy is the nomination of Jeb Bush.
The second part of the poll is now released, and exactly as predicted it shows exactly what we said it would most likely contain. However, in order to explain the content we first need to revisit the construct of why these events are surfacing with such intense predictability.
Simultaneously, it is also necessary to discuss and deconstruct another Fox Business report that John Kasich is being touted as a possible Vice-President pick by Donald Trump. Both the Fox Poll agenda, and the Fox Business report agenda are tied to the same overarching goals.
Bear with me because, despite my earnest efforts, more than likely this analysis is necessarily going to go in the weeds, it’s unavoidable. (more…)
The lede is buried in this WBAL story and totally absent in the Baltimore Sun story. Prosecution witness Dontae Allen is in federal custody in New York – Wait, wha.. huh?
The revelation surfaces as Judge Barry Williams ponders sanctions against prosecutor Marilyn Mosby for attempting to hide statements by Allen which would seem to vindicate the Baltimore Six officers. Allen previously stated he heard Freddie Gray trying to injure himself inside the police transport vehicle; Mosby tried to hide the statements.
Perhaps this is why Judge Williams has now placed a gag-order on the entire case barring the State Attorney and defense attorneys from discussing the case in the media. The gag order will be finalized Wednesday (TODAY).
Anderson Cooper (moderator) promises to go easy on the Democrat candidates:
CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the first Democratic presidential debate this week, and unlike the previous Republican debate hosted by CNN, Cooper said he won’t be encouraging confrontations between the candidates.
“I’m always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote some sort of a face off,” Cooper said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “Look, these are all serious people. This is a serious debate. They want to talk about the issues and I want to give them an opportunity to do that.”
Cooper’s suggested style is a departure from the GOP debate hosted by CNN and moderated by Jake Tapper in September. Before that debate, Tapper had said he was “trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other.” (link)
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Reports: WaPo's Jason Rezaian convicted in Iran http://t.co/8H5bVnPY5K | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/D1MH9fICXI
— POLITICO (@politico) October 12, 2015
For people who might not have followed the story as it unfolded there’s an easier explanation for why Iran is holding Jason Rezaian. The underpinning is Iran knowing the U.S. State Department and CNN collaborate to use media as a tool to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives.
In December 2014 CNN ran and episode of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown filmed in Iran. It seemed innocuous at the time, yet as with all things Turner Broadcasting, it also seemed to be another set up for a larger political agenda item. (more…)
The DNC has told their own Vice-Chairwoman to skip the Las Vegas debate because she was non-compliant in expressing that she believed in more debates.
The New York Times is reporting representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, said she was disinvited (polite word for banned) from the first Democratic presidential primary debate in Nevada after she appeared on television and called for more debates.
New York Times […] Ms. Gabbard confirmed on Sunday that her chief of staff received a message last Tuesday from the chief of staff to Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the national committee, about her attendance at the debate. A day earlier, Ms. Gabbard had appeared on MSNBC and said there should be an increase beyond the current six sanctioned debates.
[…] The person close to the committee insisted: “She was not uninvited. The D.N.C. team wanted this first debate to have all the focus on the candidates. Gabbard’s people were told that if they couldn’t commit to that, since Tulsi was trying to publicly divide the D.N.C. leadership last week, then they should consider not coming.” (more…)
Joe Biden needs to get in the race quickly. The insufferable Democrat leadership are desperate to avoid talking about Bernie Sanders. It really is an embarrassing display of entitlement arrogance within the Democrat Party and their refusal to contemplate any candidate other than Hillary Clinton.
Of course the apoplectic leftists -who previously went crazy over Valerie Plame being outed as a CIA source- will now hypocritically be silent; figures!
WASHINGTON DC – On March 18, 2011, Sidney Blumenthal — Clinton’s longtime friend and political adviser — sent the then secretary of state an email to her private account that contained apparently highly sensitive information he had received from Tyler Drumheller, a former top CIA official with whom Blumenthal at the time had a business relationship.
“Tyler spoke to a colleague currently at CIA, who told him the agency had been dependent for intelligence from [redacted due to sources and methods],” the email states, according to Gowdy’s letter.
The redacted information was “the name of a human source,” Gowdy wrote to his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, and was therefore “some of the most protected information in our intelligence community.” (more…)