However, I am still upset over his 'yes' vote for the Free Trade Agreement.
Please watch this video. Ted Cruz described the situation around the votes for TPA and Corker's bills.
I see that a lot, and can relate to a degree. However, Ted's a free trader at heart. That's pretty clear. That particular vote for the trade agreement was a vote establishing the rules by which the treaty will be handled by the senate once it is finalized. (the treaty still isn't final yet). Every president for the past 50 or more years has had to negotiate trade treaties in this way.
You can't have congress amending the verbiage of the deal after the negotiations with trade partners has produced the agreement, because then you'd have to go back to the negotiating table to essentially hammer out a new deal. I agree with that part. The senate should vote the negotiated treaty up/down without amendments.
What I emphatically do not agree with is calling these things "trade agreements" when they are, in fact, treaties. They should require the same 2/3 majority that any other treaty should have. None of this 51% crap. I believe that Cruz should have called out the lying bastards on that aspect of it. That puts more pressure on the administration to negotiate a bettertreaty than it would otherwise have to reach because the level of necessary support would be that much greater.