Clinton Sends Copy of Book to GOP Rivals
Hillary Clinton is now officially against President Obama’s enormous trade agreement with 11 Pacific Rim nations, a policy break that could complicate the deal’s chances for passage in Congress even as it helps the Democratic frontrunner solidify her standing with progressives in her party.
“The bar here is very high and, based on what I have seen, I don’t believe the agreement has met it”, Clinton said in a statement issued during a campaign swing through Iowa.
“Hillary Clinton’s painful waffling on TPP has been a case study in political expediency and is precisely why an overwhelming majority of Americans don’t trust her”, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said.
She went on in the interview to say that although the details of the text have not been released, “I don’t believe it’s going to meet the high bar I set”. In fact, she did so 45 times between 2010 and 2013.
In a note that accompanied the book, she tweaked the Republicans.
“I did not work on TPP”, Clinton said Thursday.
The emails Clinton has provided thus far begin on March 18, 2009 – nearly two months after she entered office.
(Fortunately for Clinton, she wasn’t caught until after the Ohio primary, which she won.) President Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put approximately zero seconds of effort into “renegotiating” NAFTA. The source familiar with the investigation said that like all major tech companies on the front lines, Datto has faced cyberattacks, another subject of great interest to the FBI in its probe of Clinton’s server.
Over time, TPP reduces thousands of small and large tariff and non-tariff barriers on trade between the group, from Japanese auto parts to the United States market, Australian drugs to Peru, USA rice to Japan and New Zealand cheese to Canada. “Certainly the administration would welcome her support, as well as the support of any other presidential candidates that wanted to come out in favor of the deal and urge Congress to support it. But ultimately, this will be a decision for her to make“.
Regardless of that skepticism, Clinton’s words could have an impact. “So I am hoping that’s what happens now – let’s take the lemons and turn it into lemonade”.
“Secretary Clinton has a lot of contacts with numerous union leaders over the years”. Still, Datto could have backed up emails written before Clinton hired the company.
There has been conflicting analysis of what the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will mean for workers in the mining services sectors.
It was also the economic underpinning of the so-called “pivot to Asia” that Clinton had championed as America’s top diplomat. And a liberal icon, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, in criticizing the deal’s inclusion of a mechanism that allows companies to challenge whether countries’ laws and regulations live up to their global trade commitments. Years of Republican obstruction at home have weakened USA competitiveness and made it harder for Americans who lose jobs and pay because of trade to get back on their feet.
“Wow, that’s a reversal”, he said in Washington.
Obama dinged Clinton for her position in a news conference last week.
Clinton will also have to be on her toes as the deal winds its way through Congress. Already, lawmakers in both parties have opposed a few of the particulars.