“Say No to Obamatrade” — Conservative Talk Radio Slams Trans-Pacific Partnership
Conservative talk show hosts across the country are training their fire at the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the controversial trade agreement they now refer to as “Obamatrade.”
The House of Representatives is set to vote Friday on Trade Promotion Authority legislation that would authorize the Obama administration to negotiate the TPP and other deals, then present the finished agreement for an up-or-down vote that cannot be altered. Corporate lobbyists have applied increasing pressure on undecided lawmakers of both parties.
For wavering House Republicans, the same radically conservative, anti-Obama echo chamber that energized their party during the past several elections has emerged as anti-TPP.
Nationally syndicated host Mark Levin on his show Wednesday evening slammed big business lobbying over the agreement. “Don’t you see the pressure waged by the Chamber of Crony Capitalism and all the rest?” Levin remarked, referring to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest corporate lobbying group in Washington.
Levin warned, “They’ll say, you see, we voted for free trade, now we’re on a level playing field — when they’re screwing us!”
A number of other leading conservative talk radio hosts devoted air time to trashing the deal on Wednesday.
I hope they succeed in blocking the TPP, I don't care if they are feral right wing tea baggers or neo communist left wingers, so long as they help stop the TPP.



