Where or where is Nancy Pelosi in fast track? Inquiring minds want to know.
It is sort of believed that she leans against it. But, she also doesn’t want to bum out the president. So, it’s a bit of a mystery–though maybe she’s given some rock solid promise to…someone.
The Hill had this last week:
Liberal groups are upping their pressure this week on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to take a stand against President Obama’s trade agenda.
Pelosi has raised strong objections to elements of the sweeping trade deal being negotiated by the administration with Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim nations, but she hasn’t taken a public position on either that proposal or the trade promotion authority (TPA) bill that would ease passage of the broader accord.
That silence stands in stark contrast to the loud opposition of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who was on the front lines of the unsuccessful push to kill TPA, or fast-track, in the upper chamber.
With a House vote on fast-track expected as soon as next week — and with supporters expressing increasing confidence that they have the bipartisan support to pass it — liberal groups are calling on Pelosi to take the reins of the opposition push in the lower chamber.“As progressive opposition to fast-track intensifies, Leader Pelosi is conspicuously absent from the fight,” Murshed Zaheed, deputy political director at CREDO Action, an opposition group, said Friday in a statement.
“President Obama has chosen to side with Republicans and big corporations,” Zaheed added. “Now Leader Pelosi has to decide if she’s going to use her position to help President Obama or rally her caucus on behalf of the millions of Americans who want to stop Fast Track and the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership].”
Hard to decipher.

