Cruz is correct on the technicalities, but horribly wrong on substance (I’ll admit that setting up the House Democrats to kill the bill was good domestic politics, and setting the Obama up to provide something to run against later are smart politics for Cruz). For six years, Obama has screwed up everything he touched, like a King Midas of excrement. If he desired with all his heart to negotiate an agreement that competently serves US interests, Obama is utterly incapable of delivering it. The chances that he would somehow produce an agreement worthy of approval are nil. If you believe otherwise, please explain. (I am not anti-Cruz, just anti-Obama).
Since Obama is not capable of producing an approvable bill, why on earth give him what amounts to a vote of confidence? Why risk that we’ll have another set of tricks and bribes a la ObamaCare?
“Since Obama is not capable of producing an approvable bill, why on earth give him what amounts to a vote of confidence? Why risk that we’ll have another set of tricks and bribes a la ObamaCare?”
Because almost the entire Washington machine, including Cruz, has been snookered into buying into a farce that has been growing for sixty odd years. For the sake of prosterity, the powers that be just cannot let the first black President of the United States leave office without a LEGACY. He has turned everything he has touched into chaos and failure in so obvious a fashion that it can’t be covered up or explained away. Now, at the end of his Presidency, he has nothing. Enter the greatest case of affirmative action that has ever been, the current Free Trade Agreement. Just like NAFTA, it will do nothing except put American workers and taxpayers further down the tubes. Hell, we never recovered from it!
Free trade my azz! Same as Japan and China. It’s not them that’s importing boatloads of OUR cheap crap and it never will be. It will be the same with this deal. We will get the short end. You can bet on it. But Obama will get his affirmative action legacy just like his counterparts get their jobs, diplomas and degrees handed to them.
Someone posted that we can’t wait twelve years for our educational system to catch up so that we can progress economically. Okay, you’ll see your American offspring digging ditches while our “free trade partners” pillage what’s left of America. But not to worry. The first black President of the United States will go down in history as the man who saved America from economic disaster.