Posted on 11/10/2015 1:44:06 PM PST by conservativejoy
Pediatric neurosurgeon and 2016 GOP frontrunner Ben Carson has easily fended off most of the spurious attacks from the establishment press, but growing conservative outrage over the Carson campaigns recent announcement of support 'with reservations' for Obama's deeply controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership deal may prove more tricky. Ironically, the Carson camp claimed Carson supported the deal, dubbed 'ObamaTrade' by critics, as a 'counterbalance to Chinas influence' just two days after the Obama administration publicly invited the brutal Communist Chinese dictatorship and Russias Vladimir Putin to join the TPP as well. Among many of Carson's conservative supporters, the pro TPP position is likely to be a bitter pill to swallow, if it can be swallowed at all.
The Obama administration has been promoting the controversial managed-trade scheme as the 'most progressive trade agreement in history.' However, despite the stigma of the 'progressive' label attached to the plot by its own chief architect, top establishment Republicans ,often ridiculed as RINOs among conservatives , have been instrumental on the road to making ObamaTrade a reality. Among other concerns cited by critics is the fact that the TPP regime, which brings together 12 governments including communist and Islamist dictatorships, creates supranational kangaroo courts and regulatory bodies that are purportedly superior to U.S. and state law and court rulings. It also opens the immigration floodgates, and according to U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), represents European Union style 'global governance.'
But none of that appears to have fazed Carson, who recently soared to the top of multiple national polls on the Republican Party presidential primary before announcing his support for TPP. Initially, he expressed skepticism over the scheme with the left wing Huffington Post, saying he would not give Obama 'Fast-Track Authority' to ram it through. On November 6, though, the Wall Street Journal, citing Carson campaign spokesman Doug Watts, reported that Carson 'believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region.' The spokesman also said Carson was 'now inclined to support TPP, with reservations.' In doing so, the Journal reported that Carson was 'aligning himself more with the GOPs establishment wing than with the social conservatives who have powered his campaign.'
And not just aligning himself with the increasingly embattled establishment wing of the party, but with a demonstrable falsehood: the notion that the TPP will serve as a “counterbalance†to Beijing. As The New American reported on November 4, two days before the Carson campaign announced its support for TPP, Secretary of State John Kerry invited the murderous communist regime to join TPP, as well. 'We invite people to come join other initiatives, like the Trans Pacific Partnership, the TPP,' Kerry said in an interview with Russian interstate channel Mir TV. 'We welcome China, we welcome Russia, we welcome other countries who would like to join, as long as they want to raise the standards and live up to the highest standards of protecting people and doing business openly and transparently and accountably.' The Obama State Department later told Breitbart that, 'at this time,' there are 'no talks with other countries on joining the TPP.'
Of the other GOP candidates, most have officially tried to distance themselves from Obama's mammoth, secretly negotiated 5,500-plus page 'agreement' to subvert U.S. sovereignty and self government. The other leading GOP contender, business mogul Donald Trump, recently blasted the TPP as 'insanity,' saying it would be a great deal for Communist China but that only U.S. politicians 'totally controlled by the lobbyists and the special interests' could support it. Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Senator Ted Cruz, and Carly Fiorina have also slammed the scheme, often using harsh words.
Senator Rand Paul, perhaps hoping to please the establishment wing of the party, shot his campaign in the foot early on among grassroots conservatives, libertarians, and constitutionalists when he called for Obama to 'prioritize' the globalist TPP. He now says he opposes it. Even Senator Marco Rubio, who helped Obama get 'Fast Track Authority' to ram the scheme through, has now distanced himself from it, perhaps sensing the outrage among GOP primary voters. That essentially leaves only unpopular establishment candidates Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and Chris Christie, whose campaigns have largely become a joke among conservative GOP primary voters, still openly supporting Obama's TPP.
Among Democrats, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have claimed to oppose the TPP. Sanders has been opposed from the start. However, Clinton called the scheme the 'gold standard' while serving as Obama's secretary of state, and few credible analysts take seriously Clinton's more recent efforts to distance herself from the U.S. jobs destroying ObamaTrade agenda on the campaign trail.
Now that the full text of the TPP has been released, it is becoming even harder for politicians, especially Republicans, to publicly support the pseudo 'free trade' scheme, which creates essentially a regional government over the nations ensnared in it. 'The text of the Trans Pacific Partnership runs 5,554 pages,' declared Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) in a statement after the release of the agreement. 'This is, by definition, anti democratic. No individual American has the resources to ensure his or her economic and political interests are safeguarded within this vast global regulatory structure. The predictable and surely desired result of the TPP is to put greater distance between the governed and those who govern. It puts those who make the rules out of reach of those who live under them, empowering unelected regulators who cannot be recalled or voted out of office. In turn, it diminishes the power of the people’s bulwark: their constitutionally formed Congress.'
While much of the establishment media has been trying desperately to demonize Carson with phony non-scandals they invented, analysts said the attacks by the 'mainstream' media have only made his campaign stronger among conservative voters the overwhelming majority of whom distrust the left wing national press to begin with. However, by announcing his support for the TPP, Carson may now have a real problem on his hands. Without the grassroots supporters who have boosted his campaign, Carson would never have become one of the top contenders for president. And yet, those same grassroots supporters are overwhelming and vehemently opposed to surrendering U.S. sovereignty and self government under ObamaTrade. Analysts say TPP will be a major factor in the 2016 race. For Carson, that may be major bad news.
Almost every President for the last 80 years has had Fast Track authority. Cruz did not invent the concept.
It will be interesting to see who you finally support. The only One Who can possibly meet your standards doesn’t need your vote.
If Trump or any other Republican candidate were President, they would want Fast Track authority. Now they'll have it without the Dems being able to block it. Cruz is for Free Trade.
So why did he vote against TPA?
No, it is not a new concept. And since the late 70's we have taken in on the chin as a country do to our trade policies. I see nothing out of Cruz, nor other politicians that will change that.
A good reason to throw out the lowers, because they'll "always" support a tinpot dictator like Obama to take the lead in trade negotiations.
but somehow now Ted Cruz is the sole reason it passed
I bet you if Cruz had opposed it, instead of stabbing senators like Jeff Sessions in the back, it would not have passed so easily.
Because it did not contain the immigration language that he and Sessions wanted, and because McConnell made some back room deals on the Ex-Im bank to get votes.
Rand Paul and another Senator blocked the immigration language which would have prevented a lot of the problems with the current TPP bill that threaten our sovereignty.
Cruz actually worked on the immigration language amendment with Session. Cruz acknowledge that after he examined further the concerns that Session had, that Sessions was correct. Rand Paul and another Senator blocked the Immigration language amendment that would have prevented so many of the problems with TPP.
When did he supposedly have this revelation? Not until after he had already won the battle for fast track, joining with Paul Ryan in writing an op ed, and in attacking conservatives.
Cruz always has his come to Jesus moments after he's already screwed us over.
It didn't contain the immigration language when he voted to let it come to the floor for a vote.
I don't know why people on a political forum, where the participants aren't naive about how things work in DC, try to spin obvious hypocrisy by the politicians they support.
Who are you trying to kid?
By the way, this is part of the TPP lie and lets you know that Ted Cruz actually favors the bill. It's not just the immigration portions. The fact is, TPP does not accomplish anything it sets out to do. It will not be a way to "even the playing field" with China. China will join the TPP and will benefit from it either way, while our manufacturing will simply find newer places to go too, such as Vietnam.
The entire bill is what needs to be crushed, not a bill that is slightly imperfect because it has immigration stuff in it. Which, by the way, there is no reason to believe Cruz actually opposes. Cruz's wife was a member of the CFR and supports these sorts of immigration policies. Cruz has never acknowledged this, but consistently refers to her as a "conservative" dissident, even though she was no dissident to the CFR's open borders agenda.
Cruz voted for it, then when it came back around and his vote was no longer needed, he voted against it.
Cruz campaigned FOR MONTHS about why everyone should vote for it.
Awesome Job it’s amazing to watch the Cruz supporters spin in there wheels on this.
It comes to the floor so that amendments can be offered. Cruz objects to the aspects of the TPP that cedes our sovereignty to a an international panel. Then you get into the unfair aspects, currency manipulation and tariffs that create such unfair trade balances. Like Trump, he wants to have better negotiators make deals with individual countries.
Trump and Cruz share so much in their positions on issues. They would make the best possible team for the country.
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