Your "short list" has always had one name on it, dude.
So then voting on a 4,000 page trade bill without six months to study it to determine the full content and it’s effects both intended and unintended would be nothing short of treasonous abandonment of the responsibilities of their oath of office?
Cruz and Walker are just better at marketing to conservatives. But they know where their bread is buttered.
IF IT IS SO GREAT TELL US WHAT’S IN THIS DAMNED BILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would seem that the honest thing to do would be to pass a simple bill giving the executive branch the power to negotiate these treaties and limiting the legislative branch to an up or down vote.
Later bills would fill in the details such as how many H-1b spots per year, how many visas to issue, what rules/regulations/taxes every country has to abide by, etc.
By rolling the authorization of future trade bills and the actual trade bills themselves into the same pieces of legislation, they are denying US citizens the ability to intelligently direct our representatives on what to do.
The two candidates I felt most strongly in favor of were Cruz and Walker. Now they've both decided to do with trade what Obama did with healthcare.
There is no serious candidate remaining. I may have to start thinking about Trump. However bad his toupee is, at least he talks like an American Citizen.
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Knowing the history and track record of both Cruz and Walker, I say we need to pull back on the trigger and holster our guns until more is known (too many sound bites and interpretations, along with the flood of “expert” analysis and supposing flying around).
Be careful about who is pushing your buttons, do you even know who is?
Your "short list" has always had one name on it, dude.
Ah, that should be, "remove our finger from the trigger....
;)
Seriously going to pass another Law that hasn’t been read? Walker is for the Patriot Act in it’s original warrant-less spy form. Now that we are hearing more from him.. He reminds me of Chris Christie.. With lots of publicity he takes on a few of the super left unions and such. I mean, it’s great that he can single- handedly restore a state budget to surplus. It’s great that he has weathered the storms... what about The Constitution.. It forbids government spy program and explicitly enumerates power to branches, separate but equal.
These are not separate but equal, these are tyrannical.
I say he’s traitor what say you?
Why is there so much confusion over this bill? Why didn’t the GOP get out front and explain why secrecy was necessary, what the process is, what the bill does?
They thought they could just cram it down our throats and they were right, apparently.
Yeah. Like with obamacare. “Trust us”. Right.
I think real leadership is knowing the right thing to do, and doing it. I think of Steve Jobs, REagan, Bush with the surge etc.
Some people whom we ALL here admire, Walker, Cruz etc are for this bill. It’s up to them to take a leadership position on this. I don’t see any value in second guessing them on something the rest of know nothing about.
Too bad, I am done with both.
Yep.
I was undecided as to whether I could support Walker.
No longer undecided.
Will not support.
Rand Paul
Can we forget the Republicans now?
Big business and the C of C means everything to our GOP leaders. That is what the Dems always said. I guess it is true. We need to change the country club culture and I think we need to do it by opposing everything they want in the form of business breaks and taxes. In fact we should support raising their taxes until they stop stabbing us in the back.
All of the sudden Donald Trump is looking better. He is against this.
Cruz and Walker are no more to me.
From what I’ve read about the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), I’m not as concerned about TPA as I am TPP. Unfortunately, the provisions in TPA may make it easier to ram TPP through and that is my concern since there are apparently provisions that may bring about carbon taxes and immigration reforms that I’m against in TPP. I would be more inclined to trust TPA with a GOP president, but not with the current corrupt administration in charge.
Wonder if Jeff Sessions would be interested in running for president?