Anyone who follows DC politics can predict exactly what path the TPP deal is headed.  In order to avoid the uncomfortable votes and subsequent attachments therein, the GOPe via Mitch McConnell will avoid any vote on TPP until after the primary election; thereby saving the GOPe candidate, and Hillary Clinton, from being exposed as on the wrong side of the electorate.
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However, in an effort to avoid this predictable outcome, why doesn’t someone file a repeal bill to the previously passed Fast Track Trade Authority and return the legislative approval process back to the customary 67 vote threshold?
Obviously any brave Republican Senator, looking at you Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee or even Ted Cruz, could easily form a group of supportive co-sponsors for such a bill, and  would be able to assemble easy passage of repeal with a large block of Democrats who also oppose the construct of TPP in current form.
Knowing a “Fast Track” repeal bill would easily find enough votes to pass both the House and the Senate, why not at least make the attempt?
For once, do something the majority of the U.S. electorate would find common agreement with, and then put President Obama in the position of vetoing against that same majority.
Why wouldn’t such a bill be easily completed?
Oh, yeah, that pesky uni-party thing again.
Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi

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