No Wonder Obama Won't Let Us Read TPP : By Phyllis Schlafly

No Wonder Obama Won't Let Us Read TPP : By Phyllis Schlafly

On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama's plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would turn over to globalists the power to issue regulations about U.S. trade, immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. It's called a "living agreement," which means the globalists can amend and change the text of the so-called agreement after it has gone into effect.

That reminds me of our supremacist judges who invented the term of a "living" Constitution, which they can rewrite to comport with their own updated ideology. The globalists claim this "living" document (TPP), now called Obamatrade, has all the powers of a treaty to commit the U.S. to new foreign obligations, although it certainly did not comply with any U.S. constitutional provisions for treaty ratification.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has frankly warned about this giveaway of U.S. sovereignty. Not only would Congress give up its powers to negotiate and write the terms of a treaty, but Congress also gives up its powers to debate and amend the deal, to apply a cloture vote in the Senate, and to require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

The secrecy wrapped around TPP is appallingly un-American. Whatever happened to Obama's promise of "transparency"? TPP was negotiated and agreed to by Obama's trade representative and a bunch of foreigners in a secret room, and the American people are not allowed to know the details until after it's a done deal.

TPP puts us in a new political and economic union before a single private citizen is told about it and with public opinion running five to one against it. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass Obamacare in order to find out what is in it?

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., warns, "TPP calls for the formation of a permanent political and economic union known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, which will have power to issue regulations impacting not only trade, but immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. He added, Congress "will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have even agreed to give up its treaty powers."            http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2015/06/16/no-wonder-obama-wont-let-us-read-tpp/?subscriber=1

Re: No Wonder Obama Won't Let Us Read TPP : By Phyllis Schlafly

An unconstitutional law is not a law at all.