FoxNews avoids Fast Track Trade Authority would be unconstitutional

[Freewill]

Wednesday evening during the 6 o’clock hour, FoxNews reported on the president’s strategy to secure fast track trade promotion authority in the House. But instead of reporting that the powers which the president wants to exercise as mentioned in the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015” (Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority which just passed the Senate) are powers exclusively placed in Congress’ hands, FoxNews decided to ignored the proposed usurpation of power and switched the subject by talking about the Pacific Rim free trade deal, which is an entirely different matter than Obama seeking Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority.

It seems our big media is intentionally avoiding any discussion concerning the unconstitutionality of fast track trade promotion authority as found in the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015”. However, our Constitution is crystal clear with regard to who is in charge of regulating commerce with foreign nations!

Congress is assigned exclusive power to "regulate commerce with foreign nations".

Congress has exclusive power to enact legislation.

Congress also has exclusive power to lay and collect tariffs at our water's edge.

And, all bills raising revenue [and this includes decisions to lay tariffs] shall originate in the House of Representatives.

The above provisions of our Constitution, having been placed in Congress’ hands, exclude the president from exercising such powers. The irrefutable fact is, there is no provision in our Constitution allowing the president to negotiate regulations of commerce with foreign nations and then molding them into a Bill and sending it to Congress for an approval or disapproval by a mere majority vote.

Bills regulating commerce, which is statutory law, are to be authored by Congress, debated, amended as needed to reflect the interests of the States and the people, and when passed by both Houses are to be sent to the President for his signature or veto. This is how our representative system of government is supposed to work under our Constitution.

In effect, Fast Track Trade Promotion authority proposes to allow the president to exercise Congress’ legislative powers with reference to regulations of commerce, and leave Congress with the president’s approval or veto power, and as such, circumvents the States and People’s representatives from their constitutionally assigned legislative powers.

FTTPA is a blatant attack upon our representative system of government with respect to making laws regulating commerce with foreign nations. And yet, FoxNews continues to ignore this attempt by the President to usurp Congress’ assigned powers.

The bottom line is, a constitutional amendment would have to be passed to allow the president to exercise the powers contained in the current Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority Bill that just passed the Senate. So, why is FoxNews not reporting that our Senate has passed a Bill [the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015”] which proposes to allow the president to usurp Congress' exclusive powers? Why is there no objections from FoxNews concerning the Senate’s proposal to circumvent our representative system of government by allowing the president to usurp Congress’ exclusive legislative powers as applied to regulations of commerce?

JWK



To support Jeb Bush is to support our Global Governance crowd and their WTO, NAFTA, GATT, and CAFTA, all used to circumvent America First trade policies, while fattening the fortunes of international corporate giants who have no allegiance to America or any nation.

Republicans and lots of Democrats like these "free" trade agreements that fuck over American workers. No surprise that this is being ignored.

Exactly! "Republicans and lots of Democrats", and they have no problem selling their vote!


See:Corporations shell out $1.2mn in Senate contributions to fast-track TPP


“What the documents showed was that out of a total of nearly $1.2 million given, an average of $17,000 was donated to each of the 65 “yes” votes. Republicans received an average of $19,000 and Democrats received $9,700.

“It’s a rare thing for members of Congress to go against the money these days,” Mansur Gidfar, spokesman for the anti-corruption group Represent.Us, told the Guardian. “They know exactly which special interests they need to keep happy if they want to fund their re-election campaigns or secure a future job as a lobbyist.”


Here is a list of Republican traitorous dirt bags:



Alexander, Tenn.; Ayotte, N.H.; Barrasso, Wyo.; Blunt, Mo.; Boozman, Ark.; Burr, N.C.; Capito, W.V.; Cassidy, La.; Coats, Ind.; Cochran, Miss.; Corker, Tenn.; Cornyn, Texas; Cotton, Ark.; Crapo, Idaho; Cruz, Texas; Daines, Mont.; Ernst, Iowa; Fischer, Neb.; Flake, Ariz.; Gardner, Colo.; Graham, S.C.; Grassley, Iowa; Hatch, Utah; Heller, Nev.; Hoeven, N.D.; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson, Ga.; Johnson, Wis.; Kirk, Ill.; Lankford, Okla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Moran, Kan.; Murkowski, Alaska; Perdue, Ga.; Portman, Ohio; Risch, Idaho; Roberts, Kan.; Rounds, S.D.; Rubio, Fla.; Sasse, Neb.; Scott, S.C.; Sullivan, Alaska; Thune, S.D.; Tillis, N.C.; Toomey, Pa.; Vitter, La.; Wicker, Miss.



JWK

This would go NO WHERE with out the leading DEMOCRAT pushing for it, just like Clinton did during his administration. The Republicans have always been free traders, or so they say. The Democrats are the ones you should be throwing your rage. But no, that is not in the script handed out by the DNC as they screw the working man once again.

 

[Freewill]

I notice as the normal folks start to organize into a circle it is Fox news they accuse, i don't see anything about the alphabet news outlets.

Here from May 14th:
Congress cannot let Obama negotiate a free trade agreement without tough new rules

 

[johnwk]

I notice as the normal folks start to organize into a circle it is Fox news they accuse, i don't see anything about the alphabet news outlets.

Here from May 14th:
Congress cannot let Obama negotiate a free trade agreement without tough new rules

There is nothing in the article you linked to in which a Fox News personality objects to Fast Track Trade Promotion authority because it is intended to allow the President to exercise Congress' exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. And I have not heard one peep from Chris Wallace, Bill O'rielly, Tammy Bruce, Monica Crowley, Eric Bolling, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino, Juan Williams, Megyn Kelly, or Neil Cavuto, Sean Hannity, etc., how Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority proposes to allow the president to usurp Congress' exclusive legislative powers with regard to making laws regulating commerce with foreign nations.

Stating facts, my friend is not an accusation. Seems highly probable that Fox News personalities are in the tank on granting Obama Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority.


Granting the president Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority is an entirely different issue from the Pacific Rim free trade deal, a deal with a number of foreign nations cooked up by Obama. While the Pacific Rim free trade deal has been kept under wraps, the proposal to grant Fast Tract Trade Authority to the President [the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015”] is there for everyone to examine, and it is a nefarious attack on our representative system of government with respect to Congress (the people’s and State’s representatives), making laws regulating commerce with foreign nations.


In effect, Fast Track Trade Promotion authority as I have been pointing out proposes to allow the president to exercise Congress’ legislative powers with reference to making regulations of commerce, while it would leave Congress with the president’s approval or veto power, and as such, circumvents the States and People’s representatives from their constitutionally assigned legislative powers. So why is Fox News not reporting the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 is unconstitutional?


Our founders were very careful when assigning a few and limited powers to the President, and this is demonstrated by our Constitution’s command that any deals cooked up by the president with foreign powers would need a three fourths approval by the Senate to have the force of law.



Our Founder's fear of an omnipotent president, especially with regard to consummating deals with foreign powers is expressed in Federalist No. 75 by Hamilton with regard to the President’s limited treaty making authority and sheds light on why the President was not granted an arbitrary power to make “CONTRACTS with foreign nations, which have the force of law.” Hamilton points out the president:


“might sometimes be under temptations to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand. An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.”


The irrefutable fact is, our wise founding fathers, by the adoption of our Constitution, commanded that any deals consummated by the president with foreign nations would have to be approved by a three fourths vote of the Senate to become law. This threshold is violated under FTTPA. Additionally, our Founders also intentionally excluded our president from the legislative process with regard to the making of laws regulating commerce with foreign nations and granted him a limited power to sign a Bill created by Congress regulating commerce or vetoing the Bill, which is likewise violated under FTTPA.


It is also important to note that all bills raising a federal revenue, and this would include the setting of tariffs, are to originate in the House of Representatives, which is the people’s voice. Fast Track Trade Authority is designed to silence the people’s voice in the making of law which affects the raising of revenue!


So why is not one Fox News media personality expressing an outrage over the proposed Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority? And why has almost every Republican Senator voted to violate our Constitution in several ways and is on board with allowing our president to usurp Congress’ exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, not to mention Republicans who are campaigning to be our next president who likewise support this nefarious attack upon our representative system of government?


JWK




"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law (1858)

 

[hortysir]

Umm.....before I buy into the hyperbole.....
Isn't the second word in the title of the BILL "Congressional"?

 

[johnwk]

Umm.....before I buy into the hyperbole.....
Isn't the second word in the title of the BILL "Congressional"?

Umm . . . and? What is your point? And, what "hyperbole" are you referring to? The facts are what they are!

JWK

 

[johnwk]

Umm.....before I buy into the hyperbole.....
Isn't the second word in the title of the BILL "Congressional"?

Ummm... and? What is your point? And, what "hyperbole" are you referring to? The facts are what they are!

JWK

 

[Flipper]

“It seems our big media is intentionally avoiding any discussion concerning the unconstitutionality of fast track trade promotion authority as found in the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015”. However, our Constitution is crystal clear with regard to who is in charge of regulating commerce with foreign nations!”

What's 'crystal clear' is your ignorance and stupidity.

Only the Federal courts can determine whether an act of Congress is Constitutional or not, acts of Congress are afforded the presumption of constitutionality (US v. Morrison), and the proposed measure in no way provides the president with 'legislative authority.'

Indeed, the Act clearly stipulates that only Congress has the authority to change US law. Moreover, the Act authorizes Congress to end the expedited process if a given administration fails to comply with the measure's provisions.

Obviously opposition to the Act has little, if anything, to do with its provisions or constitutionality, and everything to do with the president likely to sign it into law.

Unless of course we are dealing with immigration.

and....

Healthcare....then he can change anything he wants to.

You are quite ignorant sir.

 

[johnwk]

Bret Baier softballs Mitch McConnell on Trade Promotion Authority


This evening, Bret Baier, host of Fox News’s Special Report, while interviewing Majority Leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, gave him a pass when discussing an important issue concerning Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority. When the issue came up Mitch McConnell said he really wasn’t too concerned about what’s in Obama’s deal with foreign nations because Congress gets to read it and vote to approve or disapprove the deal.

What Mitch McConnell did not say is, under the currently proposed Fast Track Trade Promotion Bill which just passed the Senate, Obama’s deal with a number of foreign countries merely requires a majority vote to become law, and not the two-thirds approval required by our Constitution for any deals which our President consummates with foreign countries!

And why did our wise founding fathers require a two-thirds vote? Hamilton explains why in Federalist No. 75 with respect to the President’s treaty making authority. Hamilton points out the President was not granted an arbitrary power to make “CONTRACTS with foreign nations, which have the force of law” because he:

“might sometimes be under temptations to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand. An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.”

So instead of Bret Baier questioning Mitch McConnell on the constitutionality of the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015” which lowers the necessary vote threshold to a mere majority vote for a deal cooked up by the President with a number of foreign countries, which irrefutably violates our Founders expressed intentions, Bret Baier decided to give Mitch McConnell, a Washington Establishment and Global Governance Operative, a pass.


As I write this, Paul Ryan is on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren . . . will the two thirds vote requirement be brought up? I doubt it.

Well, Greta also allowed Paul Ryan to avoid addressing the unconstitutionality of changing the two thirds vote requirement to a simple majority.

Now tell me Fox News in not in the tank for granting the president fast track trade promotion authority.

JWK

"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law (1858)

 

[johnwk]

Fox News runs deceptive ad promoting Fast Track Trade Authority


Fox News is running an ad promoting Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority as being a conservative idea to advance free trade. The truth is, FTTPA is not a “conservative” idea nor is it about “free trade”. It’s about creating a managed trade, managed by a group unelected by the American People who represent the interests of international corporate giants who have no allegiance to America or any nation, and a majority of whom are foreigners!

This crap started with the NAFTA, and for the proof of what I have just stated above see Establishment of Binational Panels which were created under the NAFTA, and who now regulate America's commerce with foreign nations instead of Congress [the States and People’s elected representatives] as mandated by our Constitution.

Fast Track Trade Authority is to enhance the above “managed trade”, which is not managed by the Congress of the United States [the States and People’s representatives] who have exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority is a proposal to circumvent Congress’ exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and have internationalists dictate the rules for America’s commerce with foreign nations.

JWK



To support Jeb Bush is to support our Global Governance crowd and their WTO, NAFTA, GATT, and CAFTA, all used to circumvent America First trade policies, while fattening the fortunes of international corporate giants who have no allegiance to America or any nation.