| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
COALITION BLASTS IDEA OF GIVING OBAMA MORE POWER ‘Fast track’ for trade agreement would be ‘height of irresponsibility’
WND
WASHINGTON – A broad coalition of conservative organizations is urging Congress to reject granting President Obama so-called “fast track” power to expedite the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a NAFTA-like economic integration and global governance plan.
Conservative leaders speaking out against the power grab represent all three legs of the traditional Republican Party electoral stool: faith, national defense and limited government.
Speaking at a Capitol Hill press conference, Americans for Limited Government President Richard Manning called on Congress to “not cede any additional authority to a president who has spent the past six years shredding the constitutional separation of powers.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he is eager to give Obama fast track trade promotion authority, acknowledging, “It’s an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president.”
Under fast track rules, Obama would be able to unilaterally negotiate and sign the TPP international agreement before showing it to Congress. Once he sends it to the Hill, congressional debate would be severely restricted and no amendments would be allowed.
“This president has shown outright contempt for the separation of powers enumerated in the U.S. Constitution,” said TheTeaParty.net leader Niger Innis. Ceding additional legislative powers to the executive branch would be “a monumental failure of congressional Republicans to understand the nature of the president’s fundamental transformation of America.
Reposted with permission
