Hillary Clinton finally weighed in on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal during a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa and it’s not what President Obama wanted to hear:
.@hillaryclinton "The president should listen to …Nancy Pelosi." to be sure US gets best deal possible.
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) June 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton picks Pelosi — over Obama — on trade, via @ericbradner http://t.co/mQ1KkyXodW pic.twitter.com/G6qX2DFAdR
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 14, 2015
Oof.
We’re so old we remember when Dems called opposing the president as he negotiated an international agreement was called treason. Where are the Logan Act scholars now? Or maybe this means Hillary is a racist:
Racism. Pure and simple RT @PhilipRucker NEW: Hillary Clinton, siding with Pelosi & calls on Obama to negotiate a better trade deal
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 14, 2015
Probably.
Anyway, Hillary not only supports Nancy Pelosi in the little intra-party skirmish, but she went as far as to say that she’d be a tougher negotiator than President Obama.
From CNN:
Hillary Clinton backed House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s resistance to President Barack Obama’s free trade agenda on Sunday, saying the intra-party resistance could strengthen U.S. trade negotiators’ hands in talks with other countries.
But she stopped short of offering an outright yes-or-no answer on her position on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Obama administration is still negotiating, or a bill that would guarantee that pact a vote in Congress.
“There are some specifics in there that could and should be changed. So I am hoping that’s what happens now — let’s take the lemons and turn it into lemonade,” Clinton said.
She also implied she’d drive a harder bargain with countries like Japan, Australia, Canada and Mexico than Obama’s administration has.
“No president would be a tougher negotiator on behalf of American workers, either with our trade partners or Republicans on Capitol Hill, than I would be,” Clinton said.
After President Obama’s last-minute outreach to House Dems on Friday failed to win passage of fast track authority, crucial to passing TPP, Obama was being called not only a lame duck, but a “dead duck”:
LAME DUCK: Obama's defeat on trade doesn't mean the bill is dead–it does mean Obama no longer controls the agenda even of his own party
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/rrothfeldt/status/609774781295128576
@philipaklein Lame duck –> Dead duck?
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) June 12, 2015
Is this lame-duck or dead-duck #POTUS? https://t.co/GdFfq0xl9Y
— DuaneBonifer (@DuaneBonifer) June 12, 2015
Now with Hillary openly supporting Pelosi over the president, it’s has to be official, right?
Verdict: Dead duck.
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