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thenewamerican.com 03 November 2014
Politics, the saying goes, makes strange bedfellows. In presidential politics, the cozy compromises with the unconstitutional seem even more unsettling.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a man whose personal popularity and political fortunes have increased in direct proportion to his spreading of his libertarian-leaning ideals, has now publicly embraced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an unprecedented sovereignty surrender masquerading as a multi-national trade pact.
Paul’s speech coincided with the TPP ministerial meeting conducted October 19-24 in Sydney, Australia.
Speaking at the Center for the National Interest dinner in New York City on October 23, Senator Paul said:
Our national power is a function of the national economy. During the Reagan renaissance, our strength in the world reflected our successful economy.
Low growth, high unemployment, and big deficits have undercut our influence in the world. Americans have suffered real consequences from a weak economy.
President George W. Bush understood that part of the projection of American power is the exporting of American goods and culture. His administration successfully brokered fourteen new free trade agreements and negotiated three others that are the only new free trade agreements approved since President Obama took office. Instead of just talking about a so-called “pivot to Asia,” the Obama administration should prioritize negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership by year’s end.
Why would Rand Paul, a man who has in the past demonstrated a remarkable adherence to the principles of the Constitution, make his own “pivot” away from those doctrines and toward a pact as pernicious as the TPP? Perhaps the answer is found in this paragraph from a story on Paul’s speech printed in The Diplomat: "As a Republican presidential hopeful, Paul likely recognizes that his and the party’s interests are best served by trying to find some issues on which Republicans can cooperate with the administration. This would give the American electorate confidence that the Republican Party is interested in governing, and would make it harder for Democrats to use disgust with the Republican Party to mobilize the Democratic base in the 2016 election."...SNIP
...While the TPP grants corporate giants such as Walmart and Monsanto the power to bypass Congress and the courts, the elected representatives of the American people are kept from even seeing the draft version of the agreement...SNIP
...Republicans, Democrats, and Americans of all political persuasions need to understand particulars of the TPP that threaten not only the economic vitality of the United States (contrary to the claims of Senator Paul in his speech), but the fundamental principles of elective government, as well.
In November 2013, portions of the TPP draft agreement published by WikiLeaks contained sketches of President Obama’s plans to surrender American sovereignty to international tribunals.
Another WikiLeaks disclosure in January 2014 revealed that the president was attempting to surrender sovereignty over U.S. environmental policy to international bureaucrats interested in lowering those standards to mirror those of our TPP partner nations. Naturally, the green lobby criticized this concession, organizing demonstrations opposing the agreement...
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Full Article: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...ioritize-passage-of-trans-pacific-partnership
From the comments:
Politics, the saying goes, makes strange bedfellows. In presidential politics, the cozy compromises with the unconstitutional seem even more unsettling.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a man whose personal popularity and political fortunes have increased in direct proportion to his spreading of his libertarian-leaning ideals, has now publicly embraced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an unprecedented sovereignty surrender masquerading as a multi-national trade pact.
Paul’s speech coincided with the TPP ministerial meeting conducted October 19-24 in Sydney, Australia.
Speaking at the Center for the National Interest dinner in New York City on October 23, Senator Paul said:
Our national power is a function of the national economy. During the Reagan renaissance, our strength in the world reflected our successful economy.
Low growth, high unemployment, and big deficits have undercut our influence in the world. Americans have suffered real consequences from a weak economy.
President George W. Bush understood that part of the projection of American power is the exporting of American goods and culture. His administration successfully brokered fourteen new free trade agreements and negotiated three others that are the only new free trade agreements approved since President Obama took office. Instead of just talking about a so-called “pivot to Asia,” the Obama administration should prioritize negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership by year’s end.
Why would Rand Paul, a man who has in the past demonstrated a remarkable adherence to the principles of the Constitution, make his own “pivot” away from those doctrines and toward a pact as pernicious as the TPP? Perhaps the answer is found in this paragraph from a story on Paul’s speech printed in The Diplomat: "As a Republican presidential hopeful, Paul likely recognizes that his and the party’s interests are best served by trying to find some issues on which Republicans can cooperate with the administration. This would give the American electorate confidence that the Republican Party is interested in governing, and would make it harder for Democrats to use disgust with the Republican Party to mobilize the Democratic base in the 2016 election."...SNIP
...While the TPP grants corporate giants such as Walmart and Monsanto the power to bypass Congress and the courts, the elected representatives of the American people are kept from even seeing the draft version of the agreement...SNIP
...Republicans, Democrats, and Americans of all political persuasions need to understand particulars of the TPP that threaten not only the economic vitality of the United States (contrary to the claims of Senator Paul in his speech), but the fundamental principles of elective government, as well.
In November 2013, portions of the TPP draft agreement published by WikiLeaks contained sketches of President Obama’s plans to surrender American sovereignty to international tribunals.
Another WikiLeaks disclosure in January 2014 revealed that the president was attempting to surrender sovereignty over U.S. environmental policy to international bureaucrats interested in lowering those standards to mirror those of our TPP partner nations. Naturally, the green lobby criticized this concession, organizing demonstrations opposing the agreement...
SNIP
Full Article: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...ioritize-passage-of-trans-pacific-partnership
From the comments:
chthompson • 5 days ago
It's official, Rand Paul sold out to the globalist mafia. I want a refund for all of the hard-earned money I sent his lying campaign for senator and I will actively campaign against him in 2016 if he chooses to run.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Deals with the devil are never worth it Paul. I'm so disappointed in you I don't even know where to start. Shame on you for betraying your base. You know as well as all of us that these fake "free" trade deals are not "free" in any sense.
Once this becomes more widely known in the Liberty Movement, you will be left without a single donor or supporter that first got you in office. Shame on you!
Please reconsider your misguided support for this Obamanation!
It's official, Rand Paul sold out to the globalist mafia. I want a refund for all of the hard-earned money I sent his lying campaign for senator and I will actively campaign against him in 2016 if he chooses to run.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Deals with the devil are never worth it Paul. I'm so disappointed in you I don't even know where to start. Shame on you for betraying your base. You know as well as all of us that these fake "free" trade deals are not "free" in any sense.
Once this becomes more widely known in the Liberty Movement, you will be left without a single donor or supporter that first got you in office. Shame on you!
Please reconsider your misguided support for this Obamanation!
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Related: Thanks to WikiLeaks, we see just how bad TPP trade deal is for regular people
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ns-pacific-paternership-intellectual-property
The Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty is the complete opposite of 'free trade'
The TPP would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans. It's a win for corporations
...But the TPP and its promoters are full to the brim with ironies. It is quite amazing that a treaty like the TPP can still be promoted as a "free trade" agreement when its most economically important provisions are the exact opposite of "free trade" – the expansion of protectionism...
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-pacific-partnership-corporate-usurp-congress
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Candidate Obama the Con Man lies to prospective voters about NAFTA, like he lied about not supporting the Heritage Foundation mandate to buy health insurance.
