About Ted Cruz – Using Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Example…

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 2/22/2016 | Sundance

[Aria]

Hardly anyone pays close enough attention to politicians, legislative constructs, inner working machinations, and the attached agenda/intent, as would be needed to fully grasp what is going on. How could the casual follower possibly understand? It is an overwhelmingly challenging task even for those engaged 24/7/365.

[grania]

Stuff like this that you’re digging up helps Trump. We WANT someone who has succeeded in the real world.

[Aria]

Unfortunatly you are right. There are none so blind ...

[Eagles6]

Well, I won’t vote for Kaisich either. I will not vote in favor of the destruction of America.

[grania]

Well I won't vote for Kasich either

But you aren't condemning his candidacy. If my scenario plays out, you won't have a choice!

[Aria]

Does Felix Sater suddenly make Cruz honest?

[Aria]

The comments to the article are interesting. There is a letter posted from the FEC.

If Cruz is so brillint and saintly, how is this stuff going on?

[Piranha]

Kasoch is who he is. Rubio ran as tea party and utterly betrayed us with Gang-of-8 amnesty. Rubio has shown himself to be a man of no principles. I don’t know what he would do and can’t say whether he would better or worse than Kasich. Nobody says Kasich is not a man of principle. Nobody can say Rubio is a man of principle. At least with Kasich we know what we are getting in terms of positions.

[Yosemitest]

WHAT A FARCE !

Sundance post a BLOG on "The Conservative Tree House" and PRETENDS he's reporting news,
when IN FACT, he's TWISTING the TRUTH to INSINUATE A LIE :
(that he [Cruz] voted for TPA).

WRONG ! Click on it !
Look at the "Grouped By Vote Position", and then look at the "NAYs ---38".
And the Ninth Name down that group IS ?
Come on !
What's that NAME ?

Trump and Rubio supports are RARELY HONEST.

[Yosemitest]

Oh, BULL !

TED CRUZ VOTED "Nay" !

Exclusive - - Ted Cruz: Obamatrade Enmeshed in Corrupt, Backroom Dealings

... Why does Republican Leadership always give in to the Democrats?
Why does Leadership always disregard the promises made to the conservative grassroots?

Enough is enough. I cannot vote for TPA unless McConnell and Boehner both commit publicly to allow the Ex-Im Bank to expire - - and stay expired.
And, Congress must also pass the Cruz-Sessions amendments to TPA to ensure that no trade agreement can try to back-door changes to our immigration laws.
Otherwise, I will have no choice but to vote NO .

There's too much corporate welfare, too much cronyism and corrupt dealmaking, by the Washington cartel.
For too long, career politicians in both parties have supported government of the lobbyist, by the lobbyist, and for the lobbyist - - at the expense of the taxpayers.
It's a time for truth.
And a time to honor our commitments to the voters.

FOLLOW THE LINKS !

It's always best to get the information from the ORIGINAL SOURCE.

Now let's really take a close look at HOW the Trans-Pacific Partnership was passed. (It took me a long time to track it down.)

Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, 2015 is a small block index you'll find 2 Legislation.
There you'll find Legislation timelines and under that heading you'll read
• June 24, 2015: The Senate voted in favor of stand-alone TPA legislation ATTACHED TO HR 2146 - Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act by a vote of 60-38.^[41]

Now look at HOW TED CRUZ VOTED on THAT VOTE.

Cruz (R-TX), Nay

TED CRUZ
voted
AGAINST TPP ! TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership, is actually the name of the Organization that the legislation called TPA authorized.
What everyone is looking for is the vote on "FAST TRACK" !
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and the Role of Congress in Trade Policy

Summary
Legislation to reauthorize Trade Promotion Authority (“TPA”), sometimes called "fast track," was introduced as the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA- 2015; H.R. 1890/S. 995) on April 16, 2015.
The legislation was reported by the Senate Finance Committee on April 22, 2015, and by the House Ways and Means Committee the next day.
TPA, as incorporated into H.R. 1314 by substitute amendment, passed the Senate on May 22 by a vote of 62-37.
In the House of Representatives, the measure was voted on under a procedure known as "division of the question," which requires separate votes on each component, but approval of both to pass.
Voting on June 12, TPA (Title I) passed by a vote of 219-211, but TAA (Title II) was defeated 126-302.
A motion to reconsider that vote was laid by Speaker Boehner shortly after that vote. ...

Now let's look at ALL of TED CRUZ's votes on the matter.

• April 22, 2015: The Senate Finance Committee approved S. 995: Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 by a vote of 20-6.
  TED CRUZ is NOT on that Committee .
  
  
• May 12, 2015: The United States Senate voted against a motion to proceed to the trade bill by a vote of 52-45.
  TED CRUZ (R-TX), Yea
  
  
• June 24, 2015: The Senate voted in favor of stand-alone TPA legislation ATTACHED TO HR 2146 - Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act by a vote of 60-38.^[41]

Now look at HOW TED CRUZ VOTED on THAT VOTE.

Cruz (R-TX), Nay

So ... On the FINAL BILL,
the Bill with ALL the CHANGES,
TED CRUZ
voted
AGAINST TPP !
FOLLOW THE LINKS !

It's always best to get the information from the ORIGINAL SOURCE.

[Just mythoughts]

The comments to the article are interesting. There is a letter posted from the FEC. If Cruz is so brillint and saintly, how is this stuff going on?

I call it the 'art of deception'. When Cruz's loan from Goldman sacks gets mentioned, the supporters babel on and on about it was not a bad loan... What they cannot or will not recognize it was a deliberate act to NOT report the loan. So all the yak, yak, yak, gets centered on the loan, not that Cruz deliberately did not report the loan. Cruz did not care about the 'penalty' that was calculated in the risk of the intent to deceive.

Cruz's big problem has been his false advertising. My introduction to him was 'conservatives' smartest Constitutional lawyer in ages because he followed the 'original intent' of the Constitution. But that too is a big deception, because Cruz himself exempts himself from the original intent. Hence, now he is called the 'consistent conservative'... IT is a big fat LIE... and his advertisers cannot walk away from the LIE they help create.

Cruz thumped the Bible, and played the Evangelicals like a finely tuned Stradivarius... But he hired devils to run his campaign... One cannot serve two masters for long and not get outed.

[Falconspeed]

Please, with full respect, give me three reasons why Kasich is bad. I recently listened to Hewitt’s interview with Kasich and thought he was smart and good hearted. Thanks for helping me learn about the candidates.

[Falconspeed]

From the Examiner article quoted:

‘”It’s disturbing to see the pattern from the Cruz campaign. It’s a consistent pattern, it’s a pattern of personal destruction, and it’s rooted in falsehoods,” Chaffetz told reporters about the Cruz campaign’s tactics. “And it’s dirty pool and I think people are sick of it.’

The true colors of Cruz are becoming visible.

[Aria]

Did you not see the video of Ted talking about why he supports TPA?

[Aria]

I watch Ted Cruz lie about what had said not an hour before Trump said it...with Cruz listening.

I just figure he’s either desperate and thinks “it’s worth a shot - maybe enough ordinary people are too stupid to figure it out” or...can’t think of an alternative. for his lies.

[Yosemitest]

Don't believe those COCKROACHES' PACK OF LIES !

Let's get TED CRUZ's OWN WORD on the subjects.
It's always best to get the information from the ORIGINAL SOURCE.

Sen. Ted Cruz on the Hugh Hewitt Show ( 20:04 )

Ted Cruz
Published on Jun 11, 2015 www.tedcruz.org

If you want to save time on the video, start at 8 minutes and 50 seconds, and listen until the end.
Here's a transcript of that interview.
I'll just post the transcript for 8:50 until the end.

Senator Ted Cruz on 2016, TPA, TPP And The Islamic State
Thursday, June 11, 2015, posted by Hugh Hewitt

TED CRUZ: . . . avoid debating and trying to defend her policies.
And ...

Hugh Hewitt: Do you expect she'll discuss Libya on Saturday at Roosevelt Island, Senator Cruz?

TED CRUZ: That she will?
I doubt it in any serious length.
You know, she has been, look, to date, her campaign has been almost entirely mum.
She doesn't take questions.
And it's been devoid of substance.
When it comes to foreign policy, about the only thing she speaks on is in her book.
I mean, she did lay out some views in her book, but she hasn't on the campaign trail gotten into Libya,
she hasn't gotten in Iran and the Iranian nuclear deal,
which is the single biggest threat to our national security we're facing.
She hasn't even answered the question whether she agrees with President Obama on free trade or not.
I mean, she's just avoiding questions across the board.

Hugh Hewitt: Let's take that opportunity, then, to go and talk about free trade.
TPA, TPP, Export-Import Bank, Senator Cruz, for clarity's sake,
can you quickly give us an overview of where you are on those three issues as there's quite a lot of confusion among conservative voters
as to where different people are
and why on each of those three issues?

TED CRUZ: Sure.
There is a lot of confusion, and there's unfortunately a lot of misinformation that you can get on the internet, that people are confused.
So let's explain what each of those three are.
TPA is trade promotion authority.
That's also known as fast track.
That is the process through which free trade agreements are negotiated.
Historically since FDR, virtually every president has had fast track authority.
What fast track provides is simply
if a free trade agreement is negotiated, the Congress will vote on it up or down without amendment.
And history has demonstrated for the last 80 years that the only way to get free trade agreements adopted is to have fast track,
that if there is no fast track,
free trade agreements do not end up being negotiated.
TPA is what the Senate voted on recently.
I voted in favor of fast track, because I support free trade.
I think free trade benefits America, it creates jobs, opening markets to our farmers, to our ranchers, to our manufacturers, improves economic growth.
In Texas alone, roughly three million jobs depend upon international trade.
And if you support free trade,
the only way history has shown free trade agreements get negotiated is with fast track.
Now there is a second issue that's caused a great deal of confusion, and that is TPP.

Hugh Hewitt: Trans-Pacific Partnership.

TED CRUZ: Correct, and that is one specific trade deal that is currently being negotiated.
It is separate from TPA.
Congress has not voted on TPP.
And there's a great deal of concern about TPP.
Now I have not voted on TPP, and I haven't decided if I will support it or not, because the negotiation isn't complete.
And I'm going to wait and review
and see what the agreement is first
before assessing if it would be beneficial or harmful.

Hugh Hewitt: And you were against Export-Import, and I told people that, and we disagree on that.
But I just wanted people to understand you were yes on TPA, undecided on TPP, no on Export-Import.
And then I want to get to what you wrote today, Senator, so that we don't run out of time,
because I think your piece in the Washington Examiner is important.
You wrote about the war against the Islamic State,
and you endorsed the David Petraeus concept of an overwhelming air campaign and direct support of the Kurds.
But you did not directly address how many and when American troops, if any, have to go back.

TED CRUZ: : Right.

Hugh Hewitt: And I'm talking to General McChrystal tomorrow.
He's at the Nixon Library tonight, and he'll be in my studio tomorrow.
I think every military person I've talked to says we've got to send significant number of American troops over there
or the Islamic State will continue to erupt and threaten this country.
What do you think?

TED CRUZ: : Well, I think several things.
I think the first thing that is missing is a commander-in-chief who defines our objective up front.
And that objective should be to destroy ISIS, and indeed, more broadly, to defeat radical Islamic terrorists.
All of the problems we're seeing dealing with ISIS stem from the failure of President Obama to define that objective and to pursue a serious military strategy to accomplish it.
Indeed, President Obama just a few days ago candidly admitted that he still doesn't have a strategy to deal with ISIS,
a remarkable admission that for anyone observing and watching this,
surprised nobody, because it's evident they're not pursuing a strategy to accomplish it.
If the object is to destroy ISIS, then I think the specific means of carrying it out should be determined primary by military expertise.
Now there are a number of different components that we ought to consider employing.
First of all, as I wrote today, we should be using overwhelming air power,
not constrained and limited air strikes as we're doing now
that in many ways is really more of a photo op foreign policy,
but using air superiority to punish and pound ISIS into oblivion.
And right now, our military is operating under very constrained rules of engagement that are limiting the effectiveness of our air power.

Hugh Hewitt: Are you concerned about civilian casualties, collateral damage and creating more terrorists by virtue of our operations in close quarters?
I read the Wall Street Journal story on Mosul yesterday.
They're pretty deeply embedded.
Their precision strikes are not that precise.

TED CRUZ: Right, look, of course we should be concerned with collateral damage.
And American military power has always worked to minimize civilian deaths.
But if we are ineffective in our military strategy, that ultimately will result in far more civilian deaths,
because ISIS is oppressing and murdering Christians, murdering Jews, even murdering Muslims who do not ascribe to their radical Sharia Law.
And so we need to be using air power effectively, number one.
Number two, when it comes to boots on the ground, we have right now a tremendous opportunity,
because the Kurds are today fighting.
The Peshmerga, the fighting forces of the Kurds, are fighting ISIS today.
They have been longtime allies of America.
They've proven to be reliable allies.
And the Obama administration refuses to arm the Kurds.
Instead, they're sending the weaponry to Baghdad, which doesn't, will not pass it on to the Kurds.
This makes no sense,
because the Kurds are, in a very real sense, boots on the ground for us.
And the Kurds are fighting ISIS.
We ought to be giving them weaponry so that they can be killing ISIS.

Hugh Hewitt: And a last question, Senator, because we're running up against, I know you're on a tight schedule.

TED CRUZ: Sure.

Hugh Hewitt: Defense Appropriations bill is going to be back in the Senate soon.
There should be money in there for the Ohio-Class submarine replacement in a separate line item.
Democrats have said they're going to filibuster the Defense Appropriations Bill.
A) are you going to make sure there's the Ohio-Class money?
And B) should we break the filibuster like they broke the filibuster
to make sure our men and women get the money they need to fight this war?

TED CRUZ: Well, I think Republicans are committed,
and I'm certainly committed, to ensuring that we provide the funding that is needed both
for the elements of our nuclear triad, including the Ohio-Class submarine,
but more broadly for readiness that has been severely degraded under sequestration.
You're right that the Democrats are threatening a filibuster of the Defense Appropriation.
It's not clear they can maintain it, and so your question,
should we break the filibuster,
absolutely we should.
And I can tell you, you know, as you know, I serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
On the National Defense Authorization Act, in committee, the Democrats threatened,
they told us they were going to bloc vote against the National Defense Authorization Act,
because they wanted to hold Defense funding hostage
in order to force higher spending in non-Defense areas like the EPA and the IRS.
Well, that proved to be a hollow bluff.
When it came time to vote in the committee, only a handful of Democrats voted no, and the rest voted yes.

Hugh Hewitt: But to be precise, Senator, if they did have 40-plus votes blocking Defense Appropriations, I was asking whether you ought to borrow from Harry Reid's book
and break the filibuster as he did with the D.C. Circuit nominees.
Would you be in favor of going with a simple majority vote on the motion of the chair as to the interpretation of the rules?

TED CRUZ: Okay, I didn't understand the question as you first asked it.
I do not believe that there would be the votes for Republicans to use the so-called nuclear option to end the legislative filibuster.

Hugh Hewitt: But would you support ending, would you support using it?

TED CRUZ: No, I would not,
and indeed of the 54 Republicans we have, I am not aware of any who support ending the legislative filibuster.
And the reason is in the long term, the legislative filibuster serves conservative purposes.
It slows down the legislative process.
Now that can be frustrating when we want to do good things.
But far more often than not, when Congress is moving quickly, it is moving quickly
to attack our liberty,
to strip away our rights,
to expand government.
And the legislative filibuster has prevented a great deal of mischief.
And so in the long term interest of the liberty of the citizenry, and also slowing down the growth of government,
I think we should preserve the legislative filibuster,
but we need to beat Democrats
and make the case on the merits that we've got to fund our vital national security needs.

Hugh Hewitt: Senator Ted Cruz, thank you, a topic for another day, because I think in the long run, we're all dead with ISIS and Iran
if we don't break the legislative filibuster
and they're not funding the military,
but for another time.
Senator, always a pleasure, thank you for joining us,
you've been generous with your time today.

TED CRUZ: Thank you, Hugh, God bless.

End of interview.

Now let's really take a close look at HOW the Trans-Pacific Partnership was passed. (It took me a long time to track it down.)

Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, 2015 is a small block index you'll find 2 Legislation.
There you'll find Legislation timelines and under that heading you'll read
• June 24, 2015: The Senate voted in favor of stand-alone TPA legislation ATTACHED TO HR 2146 - Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act by a vote of 60-38.^[41]

Now look at HOW TED CRUZ VOTED on THAT VOTE.

Cruz (R-TX), Nay

So EVEN THOUGH the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" attached this UNPOPULAR BILL to another Bill titled "Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act", hoping that Senators would FEAR

being RIDICULED for voting AGAINST "Public Safety"
and FEAR being RIDICULED for voting AGAINST a "RETIREMENT ACR", TED CRUZ did NOT BACK DOWN, along with Collins (R-ME), Paul (R-KY), Sessions (R-AL), and Shelby (R-AL) !

TED CRUZ
voted
AGAINST TPP !

Now look at Marco "La Raza" Rubio.
Marco "Gang of Eight PRO-AMNESTY BILL" Rubio CO-WROTE the PRO-AMNESTY BILL !

Rubio's immigration bill would have tripled the issuances of green cards, doubled the dispensation of foreign worker visas, and granted citizenship
- - and, thereby, welfare access and voting privileges - - to illegal immigrants.
... Moreover, Rubio was also able to successfully strike down all conservative amendments to the Gang of Eight's proposal.

Sen. Rubio cast the 60th and deciding vote to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
By giving President Obama fast-track powers, Rubio essentially helped to ensure the passage of not only the TPP,
but all subsequent trade pacts,
which are now liberated from Senate filibuster, amendment process, and constitutional treaty vote.
... Moreover, Rubio was also successful in promoting foreign currency manipulation
by helping to vote down a provision to crack down on the illicit practice that had been proposed by Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).

Rubio told Sean Hannity he'd "hate" to block funding for Obama's refugees, and suggested that curbs on Muslim migration would be unconstitutional.
This pro mass-migration offensive helped give Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) the space he needed to wave in a vast new group of Muslim migrants.
Rubio has been one of the most ardent champions for increasing Muslim migration.
The U.S. has admitted roughly 1.5 million migrants from Muslim countries since 9/11 on a permanent lifetime basis.
Yet Rubio has sought to grow that number vastly.
In 2015, Rubio introduced an immigration bill which would have allowed for an unlimited increase in Muslim migration.

... Shortly before the Disney workers got the axe, Rubio introduced legislation in January of 2015 to massively expand the H-1B program. Rubio's 2015 Immigration Innovation Act would have tripled the number of H-1B visas.
Interestingly, the bill was endorsed by Disney's CEO Bob Iger via his immigration lobbying group, the Partnership for a New American Economy.
According to Open Secrets, the Walt Disney Corporation is one of Rubio's biggest financial backers, having donated more than $2 million.
Unfortunately, Rubio's success in protecting his corporate backers' ability to increase their bottom line has gone virtually unreported in the corporate media.
This perhaps explains why so few are able to list his Senatorial achievements.

... In 2011, Marco Rubio voted against a Republican proposal
which the Congressional Budget Office projected would save the U.S. government $10 billion
by reining in the abuse of the food stamp program.
The measure was backed by almost all Republicans and opposed by virtually all Democrats.
The measure, as Sen. Jeff Sessions explained when he proposed it, would have eliminated what is known as the "categorical eligibility" for food stamps,
which makes people "automatically eligible" to receive government benefits even if that household has "substantial assets."
Rubio was one of only seven Republicans to oppose the measure, but his no vote helped stall momentum for food stamp reform - - which remains elusive.

... Sen. Rubio gave his "enthusiastic support of the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton intervention in Libya."
Indeed, as the Washington Examiner wrote at the time in a piece entitled "Rubio takes the lead to support Obama's war in Libya."
"Rubio proposes that the Senate authorize the president's use of force in Libya,
and that the authorization state that
the aim of the use of force should be the removal of the Qaddafi regime,"

Sen. Rubio has amassed one of the worst attendance records in the Senate, which is quite an achievement.
The Washington Post writes,
"Since the beginning of the year, Marco Rubio has cast votes about two-thirds of the time he could have - - the worst attendance of any senator seeking a presidential nomination."
The Sun Sentinel editorial board noted,
"Rubio has missed more votes than any other senator this year.
His seat is regularly empty for floor votes, committee meetings and intelligence briefings.
He says he's MIA from his J-O-B because he finds it frustrating and wants to be president, instead ... "

Marco "Gang of Eight PRO-AMNESTY BILL" Rubio has many accomplishments, of which, he can be proud of NONE OF THEM !

[lavaroise]

No one in America is aware of the European NAFTa being currently negociates by the US government. TAFTA is the transatlantic disaster no one is talking about. I am sure all these congress critters know about it but it never comes up in the debates.

[Aria]

I watch Ted Cruz lie about what had said not an hour before Trump said it...with Cruz listening.

Oops..playing with my dog..... What I meant to say was: I watched Ted Cruz lie about what Trump had just said only an hour before ...and Cruz was listening while Trump said it. Unbelievable.

[Yosemitest]

"Did you not see the video of Ted talking about why he supports TPA?"

WRONG !
HOW did TED CRUZ VOTE ! ? ! Click on it !
Look at the "Grouped By Vote Position", and then look at the "NAYs ---38".
And the Ninth Name down that group IS ?
Come on !
What's that NAME ?

WHY did TED CRUZ SAY he would VOTE 'NAY' ! ? !

Exclusive - - Ted Cruz: Obamatrade Enmeshed in Corrupt, Backroom Dealings

... Why does Republican Leadership always give in to the Democrats?
Why does Leadership always disregard the promises made to the conservative grassroots?

Enough is enough. I cannot vote for TPA unless McConnell and Boehner both commit publicly to allow the Ex-Im Bank to expire - - and stay expired.
And, Congress must also pass the Cruz-Sessions amendments to TPA to ensure that no trade agreement can try to back-door changes to our immigration laws.
Otherwise, I will have no choice but to vote NO .

There's too much corporate welfare, too much cronyism and corrupt dealmaking, by the Washington cartel.
For too long, career politicians in both parties have supported government of the lobbyist, by the lobbyist, and for the lobbyist - - at the expense of the taxpayers.
It's a time for truth.
And a time to honor our commitments to the voters.

FOLLOW THE LINKS !

It's always best to get the information from the ORIGINAL SOURCE.

Trump and Rubio supports are RARELY HONEST.

[Yosemitest]

I watched Marco "Gang of Eight PRO-AMNESTY BILL" Rubio LIE about TED CRUZ !

[tallyhoe]

Does he make Drumph honest?