TPA is not TPP. Protectionists refuse to acknowledge the distinction. This is intellectually incompetent and politically irresponsible, but it has become par for the course.
TPP could not have happened without TPA. And you know what? Those of us who know how that thing played out don’t like being called “intellectually incompetent and politically irresponsible”.
Even Breitbart can't get it straight. "However, Cruz voted to fast-track the TPP by voting for TPA on the first go-around. When TPA came up again in the Senate, Cruz changed his position to oppose it"
Cruz has always been against TPP
“TPA is not TPP. Protectionists refuse to acknowledge the distinction. This is intellectually incompetent and politically irresponsible, but it has become par for the course.”
TPA is NOT TPP, but TPA makes TPP possible. So when Cruz voted for TPA, he was in fact voting for TPP, a bill that was unread and top secret when he voted for TPA.
If there were no TPP in the works, there would not have been nor needed a TPA.
I listened to an economist yesterday describe TPP. It truly does end the United States as a sovereign nation. I mean, we are truly over as an independent nation.
Also, TPP is a “living” document which means the international cartel, once it is passed, can change it at will.
People who have read TPP comment on how much less there is about trade than there is about setting up the organization that will control the member countries. TPP turns the United States into just one of the member states, subservient to foreign masters.
TPA gave all the marbles to Obama to negotiate TPP...fast track without congressional input.
To vote for TPA is to vote for TPP. FACE IT.
Cruz Voted For TPA and he pushed it, promoted it, PRAISED it in op eds in the WSJ with PAUL RYAN.