Posted on 02/27/2016 4:20:58 PM PST by gg188
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., penned a joint op-ed for the Wall Street Journal Wednesday calling on Congress to pass Trade Promotion Authority legislation. The two conservative lawmakers argue that the legislation, also known as "Fast Track," is urgently needed to strengthen the U.S.'s ability to negotiate future trade deals.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
You can have your opinion, but’cha can't change the facts.
Ted Cruz has done more to stop Obama than any other senator. As Solicitor General of the State of Texas, he sued the Obama administration multiple times for the citizens of Texas and won many of those.
Lots of disinformation and parroting going on.
The article was written in 4/22/2015.
But the interesting thing is that if Cruz were to have a trade question today, YES, he absolutely should refer to the author of the Art of the Deal.
I said wa ... ay back that Trump should be on the President’s speed dial, whoever that president should be. Long before we reached this moment in history.
A lot has changed in less than a year, so now it’s difficult for anyone to dispute your statement about ALL FUTURE TRADE. Ask Trump.
Better yet?
Elect Trump.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/11/senator-ted-cruz-did-support-tpa/
He supported China being added to TPP.
He also helped TPA pass.
LOL! Your keyboard to God's eyes.....
The honest thing to do would be to admit that each candidate has some flaws and potential issues instead of getting upset when some point out potential issues with your candidate.
Having backed and donated to Cruz for 6 months, I have reason to believe he is passing out IOU markers to a lot of big money folks - been inundated with calls/texts/mailings/emails all spouting a new crisis that only Cruz can save us from and exhorting a "special" donation (on top of the donations one has been making) that will be matched dollar for dollar by some magnanimous folks (I take that to mean Big Money).
I changed over to trump because when I weigh all the possible issues and the need for support in the General Election, Trump seems to be our best bet for putting a rational person in the WH.
Did you miss this lil senate exchange some months ago? Did you not notice the headlines, “Cruz calls McConnell a liar”?
Ted Cruz initially supported TPA. When it went to the house, McConnell, John Boehner hammered out a secret deal that didn't even resemble what conservatives in the senate supported. Then attempted to keep the secret deal from the conservative caucus in the senate. Ted and other conservatives such as Sessions, Mike Lee then rejected the bill.
Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, John McCain HATE Ted Cruz...because he exposed them. Ted upset the RINO apple cart. Ted filibustered attempts to pass amnesty as well. They hate him for this.
Good Grief folks! Do some honest posting here instead of trying to ONE UP supporters of candidates other than Trump no matter the truth. Un-freaking-believable.
All Kabuki theater
Absolutely it is. I'm stunned by the amount of disinformation being tossed around. One person with lil knowledge of a particular candidate or subject throws something out, another picks it up and adds some odd ball comment and tosses it out with lil fact attached to it.
Pretty damn sad how folks are acting.
See, scripture supports my point. Shameful
I am not buying any of his excuses. Cruz should have known better than to give Obama more power by circumventing the treaty process of the Constitution. I was writing his office weekly at the time asking him to not support this and to at least wait until the next president was elected. If I could see it was a terrible idea, why couldn’t the very smart Ted see it? If after two years in the Senate Cruz had not figured out the place is full of liars then maybe he is not the guy we should have making decisions. Cruz is either smart or he is not. I suspect that the real truth is his establishment masters did not give him a choice on this issue.
Didn't know that detail. IOW it was Corker II, which was also an insane deal for which to vote on Cruz' part. He's never explained or repented either vote. Even if he now realizes it was wrong, he should say so. To leave things as they are now demonstrates a critical character flaw.
Even so, a real leg-bag filibuster could kill it, and he'd get help if it was that bad.
I saw the date, that’s why I said that was the day Ted Cruz started losing me.
His vote for the Corker bill and refusal to be specific about the illegal aliens that are already here until very recently all made me more suspicious that perhaps he was not who he portrayed himself.
Nope it is already settled law so to speak, they can only stop it if they vote id down with a veto proof vote, about as likely to happen as Hillary going to jail this week.
Oooh....your ad hom attacks are so powerful. That one really got to me.
Not.
Guess what? At the end of the day....all YOU’VE got is SPAM, bot. Tell that to the PAC that pays you to bot/SPAM, day in day out with your cut and paste drivel.
We see who the dummy is...the spambot.
They completely turned the 2/3 requirement for treaties on its head for Corker and TPA.
Completely abdicated their duty to the citizens.
Cruz knew what he was doing.
He doesn’t want us to figure it out.
Unfortunately for him, some of us have.
That's going too far. The administration might try to treat it that way, but it doesn't make it fact. To "legislate" the terms of a law after it is voted upon renders it void. Yes, I know how UN "directorates" and "secretariats" effectively do that; as far as I am concerned those are illgal too, as are treaties to which other nations can take exception after the Senate has ratified them. This all has to stop.
Got proof?
I am not a "Cruz supporter," as I have said many times citing precisely the TPA and Corker votes. I am absolutely a Trump opponent. So we've got crappy choices, again. Frankly, of all the candidates that started, I thought the best choice was Gilmore.
Congress has been authorizing the President to negotiate with foreign governments for financial dealings as a matter of convenience since the Founders were still active in government. The equivalent of trade promotion authority has been around since 1890 and by ‘presidential proclamation’ since 1934. These have withstood an ample number of legal cases.
Claiming the Senate or Ted Cruz has done something unusual is in error.
Great post. Especially the smack to the back of the head. :)
DT is actually using the same campaign strategy of alinsky.
1. * RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” “I’m worth billions and I know great people and I, I, I, tell great stories.”
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.) [no comment needed]
* RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” [Our threads here are very much keeping in step with the debates. LIAR, UGLY, LIAR, UGLY. Pretty pathetic.]
* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. [Always something new for the press.]
* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
[Except he has been doing this for decades with his love and joy in lawsuits.
Nothing has changed much...1983 NYT...
“His alternating skills of charming some individuals and riding roughshod over others has earned Donald Trump a reputation in some quarters as someone not to be trusted. He reneged, for example, on a promise to donate to a museum the Art Deco bas- reliefs on the facade of Bonwit Teller’s - bulldozed to make way for Trump Tower. It was a sin deemed unforgivable by landmark preservationists. But the only negative comments about Donald Trump these days are given off the record.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/07/business/the-empire-and-ego-of-donald-trump.html?pagewanted=all ]
* RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” [McConnells threat to drop him will be a positive campaign picture - everyone forgets our Congress is just as much the enemy as the administration.]
* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.) [What a pro at ridicule.]
Understood. Verbal deals vs sign on the dotted line. Experiencing that should have left an indelible impression and his response was righteous.
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