Here's email I received this evening from Senator Ron Wyden (Oregon). Wyden made a real effort to salvage something from the TPP by changing the 'fast-track' procedures. He thought he had a deal, which surprised me, because I have said all along that the Republicans can pull this off on their own - considering the money-media power of the Republican National Committee.
I did think that Senator Wyden had valid points to make and what he was trying to do made some sense. But today's GOP has no principles and no honor: their only value is money, nothing else.
What I expect now is that the RNC will do what they did in 2010 with the DISCLOSE Act - make it a party-line vote. Every member of the Senate who hangs tough against another trade sell-out of America from here on out will be targeted - Republicans as well as Democrats - in 2016 or if, like Wyden, they don't come up for reelection until 2018, then they will be targeted in 2018 with the rest of them due in 2020.