Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal
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Source: Yahoo News
“She’s absolutely wrong,” Barack Obama said, before I could even get the question out of my mouth.
He was talking about Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and populist crusader whom Obama helped elevate to national prominence. Warren generally reserves her more acid critiques for Republicans and Wall Street, but in recent weeks she’s been leading a vocal coalition of leftist groups and lawmakers who oppose the president’s free-trade pact with 12 Asian countries.
This past week, as I had just reminded Obama, Warren launched her heaviest torpedo yet against the trade deal, alleging that some future president might use it as an excuse to undo the reregulation of Wall Street that Obama signed into law in 2010. In fact, as the White House quickly pointed out, language in the pact would expressly prevent that unless Congress voted to allow it.
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So who's actually wrong!?
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tired of words free trade, it is not free trade.
I trust Ms.Warren and other progressives on this issue, you don't have to look no further than when last week Sherrod Brown was given fifteen minutes notice about a hearing, and when he tried to get some answers he was cut -off by a free trader republican hypocrite, Orrin Hatch, (who support outsourcing jobs---by the way---no surprise there---look at his Cafta, Nafta vote for example---he doesn't care about transparency---look at his campaign funds) when Brown was trying to get some answers from the trade representative.
Nope, Mr. President, if this was such a good deal bring it out into the open---that's not asking for much.
