Posted on 06/23/2015 4:29:02 AM PDT by Leto
As a general matter, I agree (as did Ronald Reagan) that free trade is good for America; when we open up foreign markets, it helps American farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers. But TPA in this Congress has become enmeshed in corrupt Washington backroom deal-making, along with serious concerns that it would open up the potential for sweeping changes in our laws that trade agreements typically do not include. Since the Senate first voted on TPA, there have been two material changes. First, WikiLeaks subsequently revealed new troubling information regarding the Trade in Services Agreement, or TiSA, one of the trade deals being negotiated by Obama. Despite the administration’s public assurances that it was not negotiating on immigration, several chapters of the TiSA draft posted online explicitly contained potential changes in federal immigration law. TPA would cover TiSA, and therefore these changes would presumably be subject to be fast-track. When TPA last came up for a vote, both Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80% and I introduced amendments that would have barred fast-track treatment for any trade agreement that attempted to impact immigration law. Two other Republican senators objected, and we were both denied votes on our amendments. Instead, the House inserted substantially weaker language in related legislation.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Breitbart still making anybody’s computers to crash? Mine does.
Took him long enough.
It’s probably your browser. MS Explorer kept crashing on me. Google Chrome does not.
Toast Cruz first did not read it, then read it except
the ‘footnotes’;
and Toast Cruz was against it before he was for it.
==> Toast Cruz = McConnell and Obama’s little helper.
I had to stop going there. Frankly, the whole internet (other than archaic sites like FR) has slowed down due to all the scripts running in the background. I feel like I’m using my old 486 again when I hit most sites.
I just avoid those sites now.
Well well, Sessions was correct Ted.
Took him long enough.
In essence, I’m seeing him say, “this was a noble idea, but when the details are penned out, it is suicide to pass it. It is almost as if he saw this from the beginning and knew he was going to take heat, but was looking at it strategically rather than tactically.
There is nothing wrong with being for an idea, but against a particular implementation. And sometimes the difference can be very tiny, but the impact tremendous, kind of like a single extra chromosome.
He’s pulling a Rubio. For a bill during the fight then against it after it doesn’t matter.
Conservatives in favor of fast tracking secret Obama “trade” deals was an insane idea to start. The whole idea that TPA “wasn’t the problem” is the biggest beltway scam since Obamacare. Shame on anybody who supported it at any point.
Well well, Sessions was correct Ted.
He shows that he’s for the idea but against the particular implementation. Kinda like being for a woman president, but against Hillary.
So Cruz was for TPA before he was against it...?
Breitbart has 2 to 4 videos always trying to load and run, plus pop under ads. If you have a low end XP machine, or minimum RAM, they tend to choke on all the content Breitbart is trying to throw at you. TheBlaze.com, Newsmax.com, and WND.com to a lesser extend also have multiple content streams all trying to get your attention. Again, older underpowered computers tend to choke on the firehose of content they push at you.
This is not a rant against conservative web sites, it’s the ONLY one’s I visit, thus I know of the problems. Fixed it with a new i7- 16 GB RAM - 4 GB video card.
Sounds more like he was for what he was lead to believe it was, and against what it's actually turning out to be.
Like Mark Levin said “Why would you fast track a trade deal Obama wants when Obama does not believe in free trade?” Looks like McConnell also lied to Cruz according to this article. Good thing Cruz figured out what a snake he is before he voted on the TPA.
Cruz gets it right again.
GO CRUZ!
try Ghostery on your machine. I go to these sites now, and while it’s not like a text-only site, it’s much faster. It blocks or stops the scripts from running when you get there. Breitbart, Forbes, they all run smoothly now.
Surprise, surprise. The perfect candidate for you would be??? OH, that’s right. Trolls don’t have candidates.
Some food for thought:
If Apple, that has 40% of its sales in the U.S., employed 40% of its workforce here at $40,000 each instead of 1/10th of that cost in China, it would cost them $10 billion, employ about 300,000 Americans, and they would only need to raise prices by 6% on their $185 billion in sales to recoup that. Theoretically, if they didn’t raise prices, they would still have made about $45 billion pretax.....still a whopping 24% of sales.
Awesome! Thank you very much.
Cruz already voted for TPA and TAA, which was in the first bill. So what has changed? Answer: The heat Cruz took for his first vote. Too little too late, The Senate will pass it. Obama wins again.
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