Ian Fletcher has just written a devastating response to Hillary’s new-found opposition to TPP for Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Worth a look!
Here’s a sample:
But there's a bigger issue, if you'll forgive me for harping on that one phrase of yours that seems, come to think of it, to encapsulate so much about you. If we take "too many unanswered questions" seriously, you're implying that the agreement is maybe 40% good, 40% bad, and you're just waiting to find out about that last 20%. It implies that there's doubt in your mind, like you could have gone either way and a free-trade agreement is neither good nor bad in itself, but depends on the details.
Sorry, but if you understand at all that there's something wrong with this treaty, you understand that it's wrong in principle, on the innate fundamentals, and that the details are about as relevant as the details of stomach cancer. This is not a detail decision. This is a fundamentals decision about America's economic relationship to the rest of the world.