by
Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum June 17, 2015
On Friday, Congress disrupted
President Obama’s plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an
unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans
who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership, and the big-donor
claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to
make this dangerous mistake.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
would turn over to globalists the power to issue regulations about U.S. trade,
immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. It’s called a “living
agreement” which means the globalists can amend and change the text of the
so-called agreement after it has gone into effect.
That reminds me of our supremacist
judges who invented the term of a “living” Constitution, which they can rewrite
to comport with their own updated ideology. The globalists claim that this
“living” document (TPP), now called Obamatrade, has all the powers of a treaty
to commit the U.S. to new foreign obligations, although it certainly did not
comply with any U.S. constitutional provisions for treaty ratification.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has
frankly warned about this giveaway of U.S. sovereignty. Not only would Congress
give up its powers to negotiate and write the terms of a treaty, but Congress
also gives up its power to debate and amend the deal, to apply a cloture vote
in the Senate, and to require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
The secrecy wrapped around TPP is
appallingly un-American. Whatever happened to Obama’s promise of
“transparency”? TPP was negotiated and agreed to by Obama’s trade representative
and a bunch of foreigners in a secret room, and the American people are not
allowed to know the details until after it’s a done deal.
TPP puts us in a new political and
economic union before a single private citizen is told about it and with public
opinion running five to one against it. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had
to pass Obamacare in order to find out what is in it?
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) warns,
“TPP calls for the formation of a permanent political and economic union known
as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, which will have power to issue
regulations impacting not only trade but immigration, the environment, labor
and commerce. He added, Congress “will have surrendered its legislative
prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made
public, Congress will have even agreed to give up its treaty powers.”
Senator Sessions made it even more
emphatic, saying that Fast Track “authorizes the President to form a new
transnational governance structure…. it confers the power to both compel and
restrict changes to U.S. policy, to commit the U.S. to international
obligations, and to cede sovereign authority to a foreign body.” This new
global body could even add new member countries (such as China).
Senator Sessions continued:
“Congress would be pre-clearing a political and economic union before a word of
that arrangement has been made available to a single private citizen. This has
the earmarks of a nascent European Union,” and Americans certainly don’t want
to belong to a European union (that’s why we fought the American Revolution).
Rep. Hunter also warns that the new
global governance institution would be “authorized to issue policies and
regulations affecting our economy, our manufacturers, our workers, our immigration
procedures, as well as current, labor and environmental practices.”
TPP is separating us from the U.S.
Constitution and from national sovereignty and replacing both with a global
governance superstructure. TPP has wrapped its audacious global governance plan
in the mantle called “free trade,” which is a misnomer if there ever was one.
“Free trade” means Americans must
obey a bunch of rules written by foreigners (which we can’t veto), but China
can ignore those rules. TPP didn’t even touch the subject of currency
manipulation against us by Asian countries.
While the American people are denied
the right to read TPP, thanks to leaks from WikiLeaks we have learned that
Obamatrade includes ten pages to unilaterally alter our current U.S.
immigration law. Senator Sessions says TPP will give Obama a backdoor to
increase immigration, and the same lobbyists who are pushing for Obamatrade are
demanding open borders.
Republicans need a bold program to
bring back jobs that have been lost to Asian countries. Michele Bachmann summed
up a pro-American verdict on TPP: “I hate it. It would empower the president,
cut out congressional influence, and lead to American jobs leaving the U.S.”
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