At this point, is there anything the GOP is right about?
I heard a piece about this on the radio two days ago, and it was maybe the first time I've ever found myself screaming obscenities at my car speakers. How Republicans can push this as pro-consumer with a straight face is confounding- they seem to have chosen an especially clumsy defense: John Cornyn. Thanks, buddy. That was the quote that got me cussing in traffic, but from an internet search of "Republicans class action lawyers", it looks like that's not just one shitty soundbyte from one especially tone-deaf legislator trying to justify his poor behavior, but THE MAIN TALKING POINT that Repubs have chosen to tout this action. Shameful. After everything I've seen from congress in the past 8 or so years, and especially in the past 10 months, I'm not sure why this episode is the one that finally dismantled my faith in the legislative process. But here we are.You have to ask the question: Whose benefit is that for? Is it really for the consumer or is it for the lawyers? And I think the answer is pretty clear — it's not for the consumer.
Even if we stipulate that TPP was bad as written, I think that its collapse has more to do with the fact that the GOP would have opposed Obama even if he proposed a national Robert E. Lee holiday than it does with any coherent policy vision. I base this on the fact that the Trump administration has done everything in its power to undermine worker protections and nothing to promote wages and employment these last 9 months.
I don't disagree. The Trump Doctrine seems to be "trash everything Obama worked on, let others pick up the pieces." The larger Republican Doctrine seems to be "Clinton and Obama are bad, all else is secondary." (although I did find this pretty much spot on) All that said, the TPP was anti-consumer and anti-freedom and Trump should get credit for shutting it down. I really don't care what his motives are for daylighting the Kennedy documents. After all, Roger Stone and I share 99.9% of our DNA; we should be able to find something to agree on.