TPP will benefit Alabama industries: Obama administration

One of those was Jim Newell at Slate, who-under the headline “Hillary Clinton Comes Out Against TPP, at Least Until the Democratic Convention”-wrote a sharp critique.You can join us in signing a petition urging members of Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership”. “We want state enterprises to be able to assume the same responsibilities for fair competition as private-sector companies, so that we have a level playing field”. What’s emerged from the talks suggests that the TPP will indeed live up to Obama’s promise of a “21st-century” agreement: one that anchors the United States in a key region for decades to come, while increasing the scope of trade policy beyond just tariffs. She also publicly encouraged more nations to get involved, such as Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia, and she expressed hope that the negotiations would wrap up by the end of 2012. Her political weakness, fairly or not, is that the voters and the media-or maybe it’s the media and, thus, the voters-have decided that she’s unusually poll-tested and calculating, even for a politician.

Though she added the caveat, “you would have to put them in the context of the administration’s accomplishments”.

“Hillary Clinton’s painful waffling on TPP has been a case study in political expediency and is precisely why an overwhelming majority of Americans dont trust her“, RNC chairman Reince Priebus said.

From her adventures in cattle trading to chairing a policymaking committee in her husband’s White House to running for Senate in a state she’d never lived in to her effort to use superdelegates to overturn 2008 primary results to her email servers, [Hillary] Clinton is clearly more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas. “There is a vigorous disagreement inside the Democratic Party about the wisdom of the approach that the president makes”.

It’s also about the threat posed by Bernie Sanders.

“That’s a reversal!” former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a longtime opponent of the trade deal, said in a statement.

Clinton, who backed the developing trade pact when she was secretary of state during Obama’s first term, said she was anxious the agreement would not do enough to crack down on currency manipulation or protect consumers from excessively high drug prices.

As a presidential candidate she has used more hedging language, for example saying she has “some concerns”, and now she has said she outright doesn’t support the deal as it stands.

Her recent departures from White House doctrine have caught the President’s eye.

Under the plan released by her campaign, Clinton would “take administrative action” to require high-volume gun sellers to conduct background checks on gun sales, the same rule that gun stores are bound by.

“We’ve learned a lot about trade agreements in the past years“, she said.

So does Clinton’s opposition doom the TPP’s chance for passage in Congress, where at least a few Democratic support will be necessary to get it through the House? Then, as now, she sought the support of critical labor groups who oppose free trade.