.@TheDemocrats: Sanction Democrats Who Vote for TPP in Lame Duck

Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and the overwhelming majority of Congressional Democrats oppose the pro-corporate welfare Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] agreement. But according to the Chamber of Commerce, Mitch McConnell wants to have a vote on the TPP in a "lame duck" session of Congress; after the November election, but before the new Congress that was just elected is seated. [1] This is the same Mitch McConnell who claims the Senate shouldn't vote this year on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland because the Supreme Court vacancy should be filled by the next President. [2]

McConnell's anti-democratic strategy for passing the TPP won't work if Congressional Democrats don't go along with it. Democrats meeting at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia July 25–28 can decide to oppose a lame duck vote on the TPP. Democratic platform provisions have often been ignored by Democratic elected officials, so this position should be backed by some sanction on any Democratic elected official who defies it. Stripping Democrats who vote for TPP in a lame duck of future super-delegate status would be a modest sanction.

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References:
1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-01-20/will-the-trans-pacific-partnership-deal-survive-
2. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2016/03/senate_gop_in_1997_playing_politics_with_judges_is_unfair