White House Slaps Back At Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Broken Promises’ Trade Report

Posted by | May 19, 2015 23:00 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher

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On Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) threw the latest punch in her ongoing grudge match with President Obama over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and related Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation, this time in the form of a 12-page report (15 pages with endnotes) entitled “Broken Promises: Decades of Failure to Enforce Labor Standards in Free Trade Agreements.”

The report details the many claims made about labor provisions in previous trade deals, and the failure of those trade deals to live up to them. The toll that trade deals have taken on U.S. workers is the backbone of opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and to the TPA legislation that would allow it and other trade deals to be approved by a simple majority, without amendments.

At Tuesday’s White House daily briefing, I asked Press Secretary Josh Earnest for the administration’s reaction to the report, and to Sen. Warren’s continued, persistent opposition to the trade deals…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

6 responses to White House Slaps Back At Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Broken Promises’ Trade Report

  1. trees May 20th, 2015 at 09:23

    On Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) threw the latest punch in her ongoing grudge match with President Obama over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and related Trade.

    Rumor has it that Obama was overheard saying, “Dude, she hits like a girl”

    • OldLefty May 20th, 2015 at 12:22

      ?????

    • bpollen May 20th, 2015 at 15:50

      Geez… even your humor(?) is sexist…

      • trees May 20th, 2015 at 22:18

        Wait, it gets better…..

        White House Slaps Back At Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Broken Promises’ Trade Report

        I guess if you get punched by a girl you need to strike, erm, slap back….

        lol….

        • bpollen May 21st, 2015 at 04:41

          Wait, it gets better….

          No, you don’t.

        • OldLefty May 21st, 2015 at 06:15

          ?????

          Or is this the classic, one false premise built upon a previous false premise?

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