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Trump Blinks
Under increasing pressure from the fallout of the trade war with China, it looks like President Trump may be walking back one of his campaign promises:
WASHINGTON—One year after withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Donald Trump has asked his top economic advisers to study the possibility of re-entering the trade pact negotiations.
Trump has deputized Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, and Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, to study the possibility of re-entering the TPP if the terms were favorable, the president told a group of lawmakers on Thursday.
The president’s new openness toward the TPP, which he had said during his campaign was a deal “pushed by special interests who want to rape our country,” comes as he is facing criticism from farmers for his escalating trade battle with China. After Trump took aim at China with new steel and aluminum tariffs, Beijing responded by announcing it would place penalties on a list of agricultural products that would affect swaths of the president’s political base.
As a matter of policy, this is a big win in the column for “Good Trump” — it’s absolutely the right policy move from both an economic or foreign policy perspective. As a political matter, it remains to be seen how his base, vehemently opposed to most trade deals, will take the news that the President is going against them on one of his core campaign promises.
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By that evidence I’m a Mexican bandito according to a picture from college.
Hola! Que tal, amigo?
And, like Obama, Jamie wasn’t born here and hates America.
Moderator Note:
Vulgarities in foreign languages and on images are still vulgarities.[Image redacted.]
Amazing how you seek to put words into people’s mouths to have them say something else. Just like the Left.
Yes, Fred just did that with me.
Tried to find a video clip of taking bets on the big fight in the quiet man. Couldn’t, so just use your imagination.
My take on Obama’s religion is he as secular as any other Lefty out there …. traditionally religious Lefties are the exception.
Obama being a man of the Left devotes his “religious” fervor to that which he is most passionate …… Leftism.
I’m not sure you can be religious and a leftist; sure, you can be an Episcopalian or a Presbyterian, but not an evangelical, I don’t think.
You can definitely be a Calvinist and be on the Left – so many on the left are always patting themselves on the back for their incredible virtue, their tolerance of others and the notion that life has smiled on them because they are so wonderful. (Although many can’t bring themselves to use the word “God.”)
Jimmy Carter was a leftist and born again. Does that count?
Was he a leftist? He certainly was misguided.
Excellent thinking. And of course, we have whole generations of people who are “well educated” if “education” is judged by certificates and degrees. But a person has to wonder why basic economics is not taught in HS.
So many people do not understand basic economics. So all these liberals, many of whom must mean well, I guess, don’t get that if I employ three people, pay each of them $ 11 an hour (while paying myself only ten,) should a law mandate I pay $ 15, I then most likely have to fire one of the employees. You would understand that, but most liberals wouldn’t.
@carolJoy you lost me on that one. Every one of those things you mentioned are diametrically opposed to the Doctrines of Grace – aka “Calvinism.”
There are plenty of religious leftists. Just like here’s plenty of non-believer conservatives.
And Jim Wallis is a Leftie. I don’t think much of him at all, but he is a clergyman.
Would hate to base an argument on this or that political figure. And being a clergyman per se means nothing:
“Therefore it is no great thing if (Satan’s) ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.” – 2 Cor. 11:15
Ay Caramba!
Apparently, some people love to make an argument wherever they can find. Or make one up. All I was doing by citing this person is to say that there are religious people who are on the Left. This is just a fact. I don’t think much of Jim Wallis, as I’ve stated, and think that a Leftist’s view of the Bible is certainly wrong. But to speak of these people as Satan’s helpers only makes our side look bad. Isn’t saying that these people are wrong enough?
I don’t know Mr. Wallis at all, nor did I intend to say he was one of Satans minions. The only point was that what a person says, how they appear, may not present at all a legitimate picture of who they are. More specifically, neither Wallis nor Carter nor any other name I can think of necessarily disprove Mr. Webster’s comment on Evangelical Christians.
Are there religious people on the Left? Even the very far Left? I’m sure of it. All sorts of nonChristians, maybe even some earnest followers of Christ. But an Evangelical Christian? Not so sure.