National Support - Marsha Blackburn R-TN takes lead U.S. Senate Conservative anti-establishment Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has emerged as the front-running candidate in Tennessee’s GOP senatorial primaries. Go Marsha -

Conservative anti-establishment Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has emerged as the front-running candidate in Tennessee’s GOP senatorial primaries. Go Marsha -  Tea Party United States

Is Jonathan Gruber in Prison Yet? The Whores In Congress, they called it the Affordable Care Act - We call it Bull Shxt ObamaCare

Obama has nothing to do with the super higher prices for ObamaCare, per Barack Obama.  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, has crippled the nation.  They will now go for single payer and the ass wipes in Congress, republicans by name, need to be monitored and supervised.  

http://www.clintontarium.com

At the genius level Jonathan Gruber lied to you, because you're stupid it wasn't that difficult.  The ass wipe Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel says the increases will be severe, but don't worry dumb ass most people will never know because they get subsidies.  Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Jonathan Gruber will have their day in Federal Court; Wait for WIKILEAKS

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The GOP pillaging and burning has started as the GOP Republican elites in Washington D.C. have joined with Marco Rubio in a losing battle to hold on to their corrupt power, money and influence and defeat Donald Trump, the peoples choice.

The GOP pillaging and burning has started as the GOP Republican elites in Washington D.C. have joined with Marco Rubio in a losing battle to hold on to their corrupt power, money and influence and defeat Donald Trump, the peoples choice. 

Eager to continue their pillaging of the American middle class taxpayers the Republican party has once again wet their bed sheets and are now supporting Marco Rubio since Jeb Bush crashed and burned, in the GOP establishments name, before the American people wanting and needing Donald Trump as president of the United States.

Marco Rubio, corrupt and eager, smoldering in lies and past practices is ready to deceive the American people for absolute power and the GOP Republicans, in the house and senate are ready to back him up to avoid a Donald Trump administration.  

The political and money games are over when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the borders will be closed, the illegal aliens will be deported, the criminals inside the government will be held for trial and the absolute corruption will come to an abrupt end.  The GOP RNC Republicans understand that they are guilty, as guilty as the DNC Democrats when it comes to closed door deals that rape the honest citizen, re-distributes private property, destroy's savings, continued welfare programs, unemployment, under-employment, interest rates, stock market support,  keeps the borders open for big business, millions of illegal aliens sucking on taxpayer funds, sanctuary cities, black lives matter, muslim brotherhood,  refuse to kill the Islamic Radicals and will not defend the U.S. Constitution.

Donald Trump will save America.

Donald Trump is a major threat to the GOP RNC Republicans.

Donald Trump is for the people and the constitution.

The great fire has started.

The roaring storm of political revolution has started.

Marco Rubio - Fraud - Tricks - Lies - Cheats - Arrest Record of Marco Rubio $345,451 Rubio is “a man in a hurry, Angel Barrios was arrested along with Rubio in 1990

Angel Barrios was arrested along with Rubio in 1990

While the court file was destroyed

Between May 2005 and Au­gust 2007, when Ru­bio was first speak­er-des­ig­nate and then speak­er of the House, the Re­pub­lic­an Party of Flor­ida paid Luntz’s con­sult­ing com­pan­ies a total of $345,451, ac­cord­ing to Flor­ida Di­vi­sion of Elec­tions fil­ings. That was the peri­od when Luntz helped Ru­bio pro­duce his “100 In­nov­at­ive Ideas” pro­ject, which in­cluded a book of policy pro­pos­als that Ru­bio pushed dur­ing his two years in charge of the state House.

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In 2007, Luntz praised Ru­bio’s 100 Ideas pro­ject in a Wash­ing­ton Post op-ed, writ­ing that it brought for­ward “the prin­ciples of good gov­ern­ment and polit­ic­al ac­count­ab­il­ity.” That art­icle also failed to men­tion his role in the book’s pro­duc­tion and pro­mo­tion—a pro­ject that boos­ted Ru­bio’s name around the state, lay­ing the ground­work for his suc­cess­ful U.S. Sen­ate run in 2010.

Rubio is “a man in a hurry, not bothering to pause at any level to actually accomplish something before he grabs for the next level up. In that respect, at least, he really is like Obama. His disastrous Gang of 8 amnesty effort can be seen in this light — it was a potential ticket to national office for Rubio. At least that’s undoubtedly what he thought, and what the lobbyists and donors told him.”

Negro Slavery Reparations are on Hillary Clinton's agenda DNC like a spit roast pig plans on eating the middle class Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Barack Obama lights the fire

Negro Reparations are on Hillary Clinton's agenda as her last hope.  With no modern durable political platform Hillary Clinton goes hard left and wants to promote Negro Slave Reparations.  If you're black you get a check, if you're not you can sell oranges on the street corner to get the money. 

Hillary is not going to be president of the United States unless she goes hard left radical and with jeering and urging the DNC says "let's go with Negro reparations" even though they have no intentions of giving anything to dead slaves.  There are no slaves in America and nobody has ever met a slave, except in the indignant past found in history books. 

Senator Chuck Schumer D-Ny is playing another Hoax - Israel Warplanes Strike Iran Nuclear Sites - Obama Vacation Schumer cover story hoax

Senator Chuck Schumer D-Ny is playing another Hoax on the American people by pretending to defy the Negro Radical Barack Obama and his personal Iran Nuclear Bomb Deal.  If anybody in their right mind believes that Chuck Schumer plans on ambushing Barack Obama you're an idiot. 

Senator Chuck Schumer offers no betrayal to Barack Obama so don't think for one minute that this is some kind of compromise.  The Schumer fake is a political move for the future power of Chuck Schumer.

This is a deliberate hoax against the American people to provide a hoax intervention that will fail but allow Iran and nuclear weapon to kill millions of jews.  Israel is making its own plans before the John Kerry Barack Obama Hillary Clinton deal is set to strike Iran and hit it hard, regardless of some implanted law by Barack Obama and his Muslim Brotherhood loving friends.

Israel will strike as Obama plays golf while on vacation,

The plot is deep and wide spread.

Another Republican Excuse, Another Delay, Another Plan, The sordid wrong sided Republican Mitch McConnell blocks all the peoples moves by Cruz and Lee.

Another Republican Excuse, Another Delay, Another Plan, The sordid wrong sided Republican Mitch McConnell blocks all the peoples moves by Cruz and Lee. Big Mitch has another great plan that leaves you desperate and out in the cold, he calls it the Highway Bill.   Mitch is simply another Harry Reid and he lies to you and everybody else. Cruz is correct, they lie, they cheat, they delay, they steal and you always pay the horrible price.

These tactics by Mitch is how you got ObamaCare, ObamaTrade, ObamaMexico, ObamaIran, ObamaAbortion, ObamaIRS, ObamaBenghazi, ObamaFastFurious and other really neat government programs leaving 94 million people unemployed, starving on food stamps and buying guns to protect their family. 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked efforts by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to defund Planned Parenthood.

Senator Pat Toomey, Republican Changing Sides Bows To Leadership Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania does not believe in the U.S. Constitution

Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania does not believe in the U.S. Constitution and no longer hears the voices of the people that gave him power and influence.  It's clear now that a Republican Congress, House and Senate cannot stop Barack Obama as Pat Toomey folded under the pressure of leadership, giving away all his power and cheating the people of the United States.  No longer do voters have influence over their representatives, only power, only money.  The ObamaTrade deal is very bad for America, American workers, American families and the Free Enterprise System but Pat Toomey Republican Pennsylvania Senator claims to know best.  You can understand the Democratic Progressive Socialist Bob Casey D- Pennsylvania goes with the Obama progressive flow but Toomey was hired to stop the destruction of America.  Soon, Pat Toomey will be considered a brand new minted Obama Progressive as he moves to control the guns, not the killers.  You have the right to keep and bear arms but Toomey doesn't study too much and has allowed open borders, ObamaCare, ObamaTrade, IRS threats, and other Obama special events.  Really. 

Lawyers and Pistols tell the story of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her impeached husband Bill Clinton The Clinton's can make you disappear, it's what they do. The cash and carry Clinton's will pay you off or carry you off, yes they have a list.

Surrounded by lawyers and drawn pistols you cannot get too close to Hillary or the truth about the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation until now. 

What is the Clinton Foundation and who really cares?

Putin cares, he now controls the Uranium around the world.

The White House and Barack Obama is pumping out hard to find facts about the Clinton's to bury them in the media, thus the payback from Barack Obama and his 2008 firefight with the Clinton's.  The Clinton's are a criminal organization just like you would have found in Chicago in the 1920's.  The turf battle is now between the White's and the Black gangs inside Washington D.C., between the Obama's and the Clinton's and its just getting started.

The Chicago Gangsters called her late at night as she stood still in the corner of her office with the lights off and the blinds pulled shut.  They had more cash so they needed another rendezvous before Congress picked up on the crime of accepting millions of foreign dollars, it was the window of opportunity that Hillary had been enjoying for over four years now. 

Her friends in Chicago had volunteered to mule the cash around the world, they had a lot of experience running drugs, cash and guns but after an eye witness placed Hillary at the Saudi embassy with witnesses to the Benghazi Islamic Radical murders of Americans the mob and Hillary was in a hurry.

The friendly Judge promised Hillary that the eye witnesses could be handled overseas and to stop worrying about the Congressional probe, it would die out soon.  The Judge needed one million dollars in cash, by next Tuesday, to pay some friends of Hillary that would make the witnesses of the Benghazi killings long term prisoners of Saudi Arabia without legal objections from the American government.

The one Muslim Brotherhood member already confessed that he had taken part in the Benghazi murders but they were many others as he begged them to stop, please stop the needless torture for more information.

The American friendly Judge had practically everything he needed except for the million dollar suitcase that would be delivered by a lawyer directly to Hillary and then on to the Judge.  Hillary thought this should close the book on Benghazi because they didn't have any emails or her fingerprints on anything important. 

Bill frowned on her moves but he could never give evidence against her, that was always part of her plan.  She controlled Bill and he knew it, he just didn't like it.

When Hillary left the government she had hoped to avoid all the lawyers, police agencies and most importantly juries of American citizens.  Barack had helped but she couldn't force Barack like she could Bill so she worried a lot.

She hung up the phone knowing she was in complete violation of dozens of U.S. laws and even a few constitutional provisions that she always ignored.  The principles of a bigger lie covers a smaller lie was still working but Monica was talking and she would need some financial support.  She felt her blood pressure rise some and her doctors had warned her that her daily use of powerful drugs would only help, she had to attempt to calm down.

Becoming the next President of the United States would require her sitting quietly as powerful men made their deals and moved the cash.  It wasn't good for her blood pressure but the Clinton Foundation was the key to laundering the money, the boys had been right so she had closed the blinds and turned off the lights, sitting quietly as she had been told, her respiration returning to her normal.

The deception would never be complete as she had to build one lie on top of another but the race was on and the supporters were giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the foundation.  With the truth and lies of a ledger sheet hard to discover the money was moving the votes, the people were being paid, favors promised and Bill wasn't directly called out yet about his teenager whores.

The Clinton Machine had their Super PAC's and they would not be denied and the first tests indicated the media was going to play along again.  The American people had swallowed Fast and Furious, Millions of Illegal Aliens, Iranian Nuclear Weapons, V.A. Veterans Administration Waiting Lists, Destruction of Israel and even Benghazi as even Bill's and Barack's lying about everything held firm.

She turned around and turned on her desk lamp, the third degree pain was easing so she tempted a smile and stared at the poll charts.  She drew out a piece of paper from her desk drawer and amusing herself wrote a note to Barack and addressed the white envelope to the special White House address, assuring it would be delivered directly to the President;

Barack

"Bill has been talking about suicide" she wrote.  "My valuable little canary is almost done, so how about Michelle for Vice President?"  "If my canary is found dead in the house the entire estate is mine."  Hillary paused for a moment wondering how much better her life would be without....

There would be no bullets she knew, nothing like St. Valentine's day massacre, empty shells and blood all over the house... Hillary was painting the scene in her mind and made sure the two guns in the house were always loaded....

Maybe Chicago was right she thought, maybe some simple traffic accident in a Secret Service car overseas that could be just another trivial car accident.

Hillary's mind snapped back to attention, like breaking out of some deep evil place she smiled committed to the presidential run.  Her shaded room and done the trick as she opened the left side desk drawer and pulled out the stolen jewelry she had decided to keep and hide from her husband.  She would have the boys place the stolen jewelry in Bill's pocket when the day came, or maybe at night would be better but she admitted to herself it was a great plan.

They would investigate, the jewelry, the shot and that noise downstairs she had planned for the investigators.  She would say that her computer server warning alarm had sounded and then the pistol shot was heard, murder she wrote.

Even the murder weapon, that old pistol was stolen during a robbery down south when they were in the Governor's Mansion, he had forgot all about it.

She started to become breathless again, even the thought of her plan got her excited when the phone rang again.  She noticed that it was three o:clock in the morning, wasn't that a bitch she thought, just like t.v.

Her Secret Service staff was reporting that Bill was sneaking through the flower beds along the west fence again, she knew it was just another late night date with the neighbor next door.

Maybe she would rethink the plan, maybe the women next door kills him?

Police lieutenants and detectives were easily paid off and state attorneys always wanted more and more. 

Maybe a burglar's jimmy mark on some door or window could add to the mystery but for now she had to pack a few things because Scooby would pick her up at eight in the morning, just a few hours from now.

She looked in the mirror at her life-like breasts and wondered if her pal would appreciate their firmness, they were perfectly made and surely she would like them as much as Hillary did as she slipped her hand further down than normal.

She slipped down her trousers and panties and decided to take some private time, and solve that other baffling mystery that lives inside her body. 

Seldom was sex satisfactory to Hillary but those feelings mixing in her brain was proportion to her fingers circulating at the perfect spot.  She felt her blood stream surge as she leaned back in her leather office chair and at the exact right time, she begged herself for more.

I Am Charlie Fiction

The Clinton Foundation, Criminal Organization, only spends 6 pennies out of every dollar grabbed for charity.  They will approach one billion dollars gathered very soon from some of the worst players on planet earth and these donors want their paid for influence.  How do you think North Korea went nuclear?  The Clinton's.  How did Russia's Putin put the arm on Uranium around the world?  The Clinton's.  The Iranian nuclear bomb that explodes over Israel will be powered by uranium supplied by Russia and by the Clinton's.  When a dirty bomb explodes in America, remember the Clinton's and their Foundation and people like George Soro's and Barack Obama.

The 94 cents left over goes to Hillary and Bill for enjoying the world on their terms.  Bill flies around with billionaires and naked cheer leading teenagers but the news media doesn't have time to offer you up the story.  Bill has a black son in South America somewhere who's black mother was given a case full of cash and an airplane ticket, never to be reported by the national media.  The Clinton's can make you disappear, it's what they do.  The cash and carry Clinton's will pay you off or carry you off, yes they have a list. 

The Clinton Foundation, an organized funnel for bribes has gathered hundreds of millions of dollars to use as bribes to influence further Clinton expansion.  Bill, the impeached president used his office to sell influence around the world, thus a nuclear North Korea and chasing naked girls with cigars around the oval office.  A proven and dedicated liar Bill Clinton wants the power back. 

Why would two old white people want to be in the White House?  

His corrupt and criminal activities have been grafted to Hillary Clinton as she does the same things to gather power and influence.  

The Lesbian Hillary Clinton is unknown to the public and her Muslim Brotherhood sister sharing intimate moments can never be reported on.  Clinton girls are paid by corruption from taxpayer funds and foundation funds.  

The Clinton Foundation is a giant cash and carry organization.  

Hillary can burn up her email server and not loose any sleep because she has more power, called cash.  A suitcase full of cash can remove a Bill Clinton Negro girlfriend, lawyers are cheaper, Congressmen are almost free of charge. 

 in general and her true history has always been buried by lawyers and pistols but the truth is leaking like a fire hose today. 

Insiders clearly state that Hillary Rodham Clinton has had two individual strokes that has caused her considerable harm as she tries to hide her medical records from the public. 

A Direct Constitutional Threat by Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi but it's worse than that: Ten Million More Illegal Aliens, staged for importing. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPA) fast track being supported by many Republicans (the bastards you voted for) has a legal provision that allows for the “free flow of workers” between countries, essentially creating a backdoor to “unrestricted immigration.” A free flow of workers is the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, George Soros dream as it truly does eliminate the border of the United States, U.N. Agenda 21.

A Direct Constitutional Threat by Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi but it's worse than that:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPA)

Agenda 21, United Nations
“free flow of workers” between countries
The TPP agreement is being negotiated — in secret, even from Congress — between representatives of governments and giant, multinational corporations.

Ten Million More Illegal Aliens, staged for importing. 

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPA) fast track being supported by many Republicans (the bastards you voted for) has a legal provision that allows for the “free flow of workers” between countries, essentially creating a backdoor to “unrestricted immigration.”  A free flow of workers is the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, George Soros dream as it truly does eliminate the border of the United States, U.N. Agenda 21.

 “This is huge hit to every American citizen and they won't know what hit them.

I hope everybody reading this will take the time to copy, paste and post on all available internet channels to get the word out.

Everybody asks me "what can I do?"

Start paying attention and spread the word.

If you're watching ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN or reading The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, L.A. Times and other progressive socialist media you're be blindsided.

Call your senator today if they're not in jail yet.

If he is a Republican he is voting wrong.

People don't understand that in this deal which is a trade agreement among Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, and Chile, there’s a provision for free flow of workers, just like in the European Union.

What It means is unrestricted immigration.

Open borders forever.

Low paying jobs for American citizens.

It means literally that  congress would not have the authority to restrict immigration because a treaty supersedes a statute under our constitution.

You can expect millions of illegal aliens, made legal by treaty, to be transported to your neighborhood and stay forever. 

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Not Really A “Trade’ Treaty”

The TPP agreement is being negotiated — in secret, even from Congress — between representatives of governments and giant, multinational corporations. (Government negotiators are not prevented from seeking lucrative corporate jobs if negotiations are completed in favor of those corporations.) Groups representing the interests of labor, environmental, consumer, human rights or other stakeholders in democracy are not at the negotiating table. And, not surprisingly, it appears that the agreement will promote the interests of giant, multinational corporations over the interests of labor, environmental, consumer, human rights or other stakeholders in democracy.

Negotiated in secret, what we know about the treaty comes from leaks. Only a few of the “chapters” of the agreement are actually about “trade” at all. The rest are about the “rights” of corporations and investors. Negotiated just as the worldwide democracy uprising threatens to reign in corporate interests, the agreement will limit governments’ ability to write banking regulations, energy policy, food safety standards and even government purchasing decisions. It will allow corporations and investors to sue governments for lost profits if the governments try to make and enforce environmental, labor and other laws.

Congress Waking Up

The corporations are asking Congress to pass “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. This would mean Congress yields its authority and duties under the Constitution, and just has a rushed up-or-down vote on whatever is presented to them. So this will be about which legislators the giant corporations own, and which they do not. (Of course this vote will occur during a major corporate-funded PR campaign that will rival the propaganda “run-up” to the Iraq war vote.)

Some members of Congress are circulating letters opposing “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority and are getting plenty of signatures from the “left” and the “right.”

Last week conservative House Republicans Michele Bachmann and Walter Jones joined Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro began gathering signatures of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress on letters opposing granting “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. They complain that Congress has not played their Constitutionally-mandated part in shaping this deal, and Fast Track removes their Constitutional authority to review and amend any such agreement.

In June 2/3 of newly-elected Democratic members of Congress warned against passing “Fast Track.” Also in June 230 members of Congress signed a letter asking that TPP address currency manipulation.

Last year many members of Congress signed letters objecting to the secrecy of the negotiations.

Representative Alan Grayson has been all over this. he has penned posts, held meetings, sent emails, done radio show, and all kinds of other things to warn the public and rally opposition to TPP.

Public Rallying

This public is slowly becoming aware of TPP and the threat it poses. (Corporate media is, of course, not covering this.) Last Saturday, for example, hundreds of people gathered at a rally in Madison Wisconsin to show their disapproval of TPP.

At the rally people chanted, “Secrets, secrets are no fun! TPP hurts everyone!”

Interestingly, those parts of the Tea Party that are not fronts for corporate interests are also trying to spread the news about this treaty. Gotta give them credit, their radar is really catching this one.

Tea-Party concerns include the fact that the treaty would elevate a corporate-council above American sovereignty, and Fast-Track Trade Promotion Authority would strip Congress of its Constitutional role in shaping and approving the treaty.

Here are some examples from Tea-Party outlets,

Daily Paul:

Trans-Pacific Partnership – Sign The Petition to OPPOSE

Sen. Rand Paul fights Obama’s Fast-Tracking Attempt w/ TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership! (Another Corporatist ‘Free Trade’ BS)

Others:

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secret Surrender of Sovereignty

Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essentially Ban All Buy American Laws?

Trans Pacific Partnership Could Nuke New Balance

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama’s Globalization Agreement (Part 1) (Part 2)

Trans-Pacific Partnership __ The Next (Secret) Step Toward A New World Order?

The third evil,

The third evil is flying under the radar. Few people know about it. That is by design.

It is called the Trans Pacific Partnership. It might as well be called the American Suicide Agreement.

Do Your Part

Let your Representative and Senators know that you oppose Congress voting for “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority because this means that Congress cannot carefully consider the TPP and amend it as needed.

If you're just now hearing about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, don't worry: It's not too late to get up to speed. Negotiations over the huge trade agreement — which, when finished, will govern 40 percent of U.S.' imports and exports — were supposed to wrap up this past weekend in Singapore, but, well, they didn't quite make that deadline, which means meetings will likely continue into the new year.

You'd also be forgiven for not hearing about it: The talks, as with all trade agreements, have been conducted largely in secret. Global health advocates, environmentalists, Internet activists and trade unions have deep concerns about what the deal might contain, and are making as much noise as possible in order to influence negotiations before a final version becomes public. Here's what you need to know.

1. What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? 

Basically, it's a giant free trade deal between the U.S., Canada, and 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region that's been under negotiation for nearly a decade now (it began as an agreement between Singapore, Chile, New Zealand and Brunei before the U.S. took the lead in 2009). It's expected to eliminate tariffs on goods and services, tear down a host of non-tariff barriers and harmonize all sorts of regulations when it's finished early next year.

2. Giant, huh? How giant? 

The countries currently party to the agreement — currently including Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Canada, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, most critically Japan and potentially Korea — are some of the U.S.' biggest and fastest-growing commercial partners, accounting for $1.5 trillion worth of trade in goods in 2012 and $242 billion worth of services in 2011. 

They're responsible for 40 percent of the world's GDP and 26 percent of the world's trade.

 That makes it roughly the same size as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, another huge trade agreement that got rolling this past summer. The hope is that more countries in the region will join down the line.

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3. So the big country not in the TPP is ...

That's right: China. The Obama administration's focus on the TPP is part of its "pivot" to Asia — former national security adviser Tom Donilon called it the "centerpiece of our economic rebalancing" and a "platform for regional economic integration" — after too many years of American foreign policy being bogged down in the Middle East. Scholars such as Columbia University's Jagdish Bhagwati are worried that the TPP goes further, as an effort to "contain" China and provide an economic counterweight to it in the region. Many of the TPP's current provisions are designed to exclude China, like those requiring yarn in clothing to come from countries party to the agreement, and could possibly invite retaliation. In addition, 60 senators have asked for the final agreement to address currency manipulation, which wouldn't directly affect China as a non-member, but could create a framework for broader action.

(Congressional Research Service)

4. I thought we already had a World Trade Organization. Why do we need a separate Asia trade deal?

The TPP process itself is an admission that the consensus-driven WTO is too cumbersome a venue for so-called "high-standard" trade deals. The WTO's weakness seemed even more apparent in its recent "breakthrough" on customs streamlining, which was all negotiators could salvage from the much more ambitious Doha Round that's otherwise been a failure. Of course, some fear that another regional pact will just add complexity and undermine existing institutions.

 Trade agreements are becoming broader. (The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment, edited by Peter A. Petri)

Trade agreements are becoming broader. (The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment, edited by Peter A. Petri)

5. How is it different from other trade deals we've done?

Trade agreements used to deal mostly just with goods: You can import X number of widgets at Y price, as long as we know that certain environmental and labor standards are met. Modern trade agreements — including the Trans-Atlantic deal as well as the TPP — encompass a broad range of regulatory and legal issues, making them a much more central part of foreign policy and even domestic lawmaking.

6. Wait, so how much does this thing actually cover?

The treaty has 29 chapters, dealing with everything from financial services to telecommunications to sanitary standards for food. Some parts of it have significant ramifications for countries' own legal regimes, such as the part about "regulatory coherence," which encourages countries to set up a mechanism like the U.S.' own Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to conduct cost-benefit analyses on new rules. USTR has a rough outline, and for a more comprehensive rundown, read this Congressional Research Service report.

7. That doesn't tell me much. What are countries still fighting over?

Where to start? Most countries have their own individual issues, and it's difficult to tell what's been resolved since the details aren't public, but anonymously sourced reports and leaked texts suggest that these are the biggest remaining sticking points:

— Intellectual property: The leaked intellectual property chapter revealed that the U.S. has been pushing stronger copyright protections for music and film, as well as broader and longer-lasting applicability of patents. It would also make the approval process more difficult for generic drug makers and extend protections for biologic medicines, which has concerned several members of Congress. Public health and open internet groups have campaigned hard for years around these issues, and public intellectuals like Joe Stiglitz have warned against using the treaty to "restrict access to knowledge."

— State-owned enterprises: Many TPP governments, in particular Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia, essentially own large parts of their economies. Negotiations have aimed to limit public support for these companies in order to foster competition with the private sector, but given the U.S.' own government-sponsored enterprises — Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the U.S. Postal Service — they probably won't go too far.

— Market access: Though the treaty envisions dropping all tariffs, tensions remain between the U.S. and Japan over support for both of their agricultural sectors, as well as Japan's willingness to accept U.S.-made automobiles.

— Investor-state dispute resolution: Most modern free trade agreements include some mechanism for investor parties to sue governments directly for failing to abide by the terms of the agreement, which some public interest advocates worry will have a chilling effect on domestic regulation aimed at consumer and environmental protection.

— Tobacco: Originally, the U.S. had proposed that tobacco be treated differently than other kinds of goods, in that countries would have permission to restrict its importation and sale. This summer, it executed something of an about-face, which alarmed anti-smoking advocates who worry that tobacco companies will continue to sue nations for passing laws that heavily tax cigarettes or ban certain kinds of advertising.

The Peterson Institute has a helpful overview of some of the more contentious issues.

8. How do negotiations work, exactly?

The negotiations have progressed in 20 several-day-long "rounds," which rotate between the party nations. Typically, the U.S. will table a proposal or circulate something called a "non-paper" for discussion, which gets marked up by all the participants until they can come to a consensus. In between the rounds, the U.S. Trade Representative will brief its 16 formal "advisory councils" and seek input from key lawmakers on where they've arrived. (Given the robust revolving door between USTR and industry, a certain amount of back-channel lobbying goes on as well).

When all the parties have agreed on a complete text, they'll take it back to their respective legislative bodies for ratification.

9. Why has the TPP been so secretive? Is that normal?

Trade negotiations are usually conducted in private, on the theory that parties won't be able to have a meaningful dialogue if their positions are disclosed to the public. Accordingly, TPP parties have signed a confidentiality agreement requiring them to share proposals only with "government officials and individuals who are part of the government’s domestic trade advisory process."

What's different this time is the scale and scope of the agreement, and the reasons advocates have had to be concerned about its contents. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have been particularly vocal about the administration's refusal to make draft text available, as have law professors and numerous public interest groups. There have been a couple major unintentional releases, most recently in mid-November, when Wikileaks published a controversial chapter on intellectual property.

9. So but wait, how will this actually affect my life?

To be honest, it'll be hard to notice at first, and it depends on who you are. In the aggregate, it should make you richer: The Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates the U.S. will realize $78 billion more per year under its assumptions about what the TPP will include, and $267 billion annually if free trade is expanded to the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.

Those gains won't be evenly distributed, though: If you're an investor or a U.S. business looking for foreign investment, or a small business looking to sell stuff overseas, the news is pretty great. If you have a job making cars or airplanes, you might have reason to worry. (The Business Roundtable, which is composed of the U.S.' biggest companies, has put together fact sheets on how it thinks the TPP could benefit each state).

U.S. income gains under the Trans-Pacific Partnership and if it's expanded to a Free Trade Agreement of the Asia Pacific, according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

UPDATE: It's also worth considering the ramifications of the TPP's potential to exacerbate economic inequality. The left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research responded to Peterson's paper with an analysis that breaks out wage gains by income percentile, showing that most would accrue to the wealthy:

 (Center for Economic and Policy Research)

(Center for Economic and Policy Research)

10. What does Congress have to do with this?

The Constitution charges Congress with giving advice and consent on trade agreements. Over the past couple decades, though, Congress has abrogated that right somewhat by granting the president something called "trade promotion authority" or "fast track," which is the right to an up-or-down vote on the treaty as negotiated by the administration so as to avoid quibbling over line items that would require renegotiation with TPP countries.

That's what Congress is currently fighting over. Republicans and big business generally favor reauthorizing the president's fast track privileges, which expired in 2007, while Democrats concerned with protecting U.S. industries and global health have opposed it or demanded more robust consultation up front in exchange. Without trade promotion authority, the chances of ratification are slim.