I find all this procedural stuff confusing, but if I understand correctly, Cruz was for it before he was against it?
Are you a simpleton?
No that’s not how it goes.
Ted Cruz reversed his vote because of the amendments by liberals that Boehner allowed and the conservative amendments that Boehner killed.
TPA is not the problem. The problem is Obama/Boehner.
TPA was changed when it went back to the House from the Senate; it was changed bill, a different bill. Ted Cruz voted YES on a good version and NO on a bad version.
TPA was actually a very good bill and it’s not new. The previous TPA was killed by Harry Reid to take it away from GW Bush. And TPA is not secret. This TPA was to be a reinstatement of the old bill but Boehner allowed liberal democrats to change it.
AMERICA was for SLAVERY before it was against it.
She (America) is often referred to in the Female vernacular, therefore ‘she’ has the prerogative to change ‘her’ mind.
Unfortunately, yes.
Not that I see an alternative to Cruz. But it serves as a good wakeup call to remember he's a politician.
No, I don't think that's accurate here. I took it more to mean he's for the idea of it, the principles of free trade...but the actual execution in this instance was fraught with too many poison pills (backroom deals, corruption, substantive & negative changes) and made the entire thing unpalatable.