Carly Fiorina, the former
Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, is calling on
President Barack Obama to publicly release the text of Obamatrade immediately.
“Of course, I
support free and fair trade,” Fiorina said in an email to Breitbart News.
But President
Obama has made lofty promises before and we’ve learned with this White House
that the devil is in the details. And the details are frequently very
different than the lofty goals with which he describes the deal. So I’d
like President Obama to tell us what’s in his trade deal before we grant
him this broad fast track authority. So far, though, he’s been unwilling to do
that and Hillary won’t even take a position on it. That should concern
us. Mr. President, if you want TPA to pass, please just tell us what is in
TPP.
Fiorina’s call
for transparency on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal
comes right after the U.S. Senate passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to
fast track that deal—and right before the House is angling to take up the deal.
It also comes
on the heels of revelations that several lieutenants of House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) (Liberty Score 40%)
who supports the deal and is using his allies like Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) (Liberty Score 76%
and Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete
Sessions (R-TX) (Liberty Score 65%, the two specific lieutenants in
question—haven’t read the text of TPP, which TPA would ensure the passage of.
Fiorina’s 2016
competition also has some issues on this matter. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (Liberty Score 81%) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (Liberty Score 49%,
both of whom voted for Obamatrade in the Senate, are refusing to answer whether
they read the TPP text before voting for this.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Liberty Score 96%, who voted for it, read the TPP text
before doing so and Sen. Rand Paul
(R-KY) (Liberty Score 93% is the only Republican running for president
in Congress currently who voted against Obamatrade.
Paul went to
the secret room to read the bill—which only members of Congress and certain
cleared staffers with high-level security clearances are allowed to do—and when
he came out he told Breitbart News he doesn’t think there’s anything in there
that can’t be made public before Congress votes on TPA.
Most of the
2016 presidential field stands with Fiorina and Paul against Obamatrade. Dr.
Ben Carson, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Arkansas Gov. Mike
Huckabee, and real estate mogul Donald Trump have each come out against the
deal very publicly as well.
Fiorina, in an interview with Breitbart News at the South Carolina Freedom Summit
last month, compared Obamatrade to Obamacare—noting that the secretive process
is extraordinarily troubling.
Free trade is a
good thing and I would love to be able to support this thing, but unfortunately
we don’t know what’s in it—and that’s the problem. We’ve seen too many deals in
this administration where they sound like a good thing—remember Obamacare? The
goal sounded great and then it turned out the details were something very
different. And so, I think we need to see the details. It’s hard for me to
understand why the president—who’s pitching this deal so hard—won’t just give
us some understanding of what’s in it. For example, one of the purposes of this
deal was to solidify our leadership in a region so that we could push back a
little against a newly assertive China. Now we’re hearing that maybe China
could join this deal in a couple years. Is that true? Is it not? I don’t know.
We need to know those kinds of details, which are pretty important.
What’s
interesting here is that just this week, President Obama confirmed that China has
been angling to get into the deal—a concern Fiorina raised weeks ago.
Comment
Rand Paul is against TPP. Too many other
candidates support this treason. He gets it. I would disregard all candidates
who support TPP to thin the herd.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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