This week, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio revealed the way that, when it comes to TPP, the Democratic caucus has been “talked to, approached, lobbied, and maybe cajoled by more cabinet members on this issue than any [other] issue since Barack Obama has been president. And that’s just sad.”. . . .
“I wish they had put the same effort into the minimum wage. I wish they had put the same effort into Medicare at fifty-five. I wish they had put the same effort into some consumer strengthening on Dodd-Frank.”
George Zornick at TheNation.com is giving a valuable play-by-play on this “unfolding story,” to borrow a phrase from television “newscasters.”