Posted on 03/11/2016 2:02:14 PM PST by VitacoreVision
The following exchange took place during Thursdays Republican debate in Florida:
TAPPER: Senator Cruz, you were a supporter of the Pacific trade deal, but after taking some heat from conservatives, you changed your position. Why should these voters who dont like these trade deals trust that you will fight for them all the time and not just in election years?
CRUZ: Actually thats incorrect. There are two different agreements. Theres TPA and TPP. I opposed TPP and have always opposed TPP, which is what you asked about.
Senator Ted Cruzs statement that he always opposed TPP is incorrect. He and Representative Paul Ryan co-authored an April 21, 2015 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (Putting Congress in Charge on Trade) in which they both supported fast-tracking TPP (the Trans Pacific Partnership). Cruz was also incorrect when he implied that TPA is separate from TPP. TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) was the fast-track bill that gave up Congresss right to amend or filibuster TPP and which reduced the number of votes required to pass TPP from two thirds of the Senate to a simple majority in each chamber.
Furthermore, Cruzs op-ed with Representative Paul Ryan was itself deceptive, as my co-authors and I noted at the time here in American Thinker: ...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Lying Ted Cruz lied? Whodathunkit?
Exactly!
Utter, reeking bullshit.
So, apparently, before FDR, there was no such thing as an international agreement? Otherwise known as a "treaty"?
Who cares when this crap started? It hamstrings Congress' ability to amend the agreement. It's an act of capitulation. That's not a good thing.
And it also places enormous pressure to then pass a bill which could be horribly flawed, because since it can't be amended, you'd have to throw the whole thing out and start over.
All that fast track authority does is relieve legislators of their Constitutional responsibility to act in the best interest of the American People, and to do the hard legwork necessary to hammer out a good agreement for the country.
"Fast track authority is necessary?" Again, that's total globalist propaganda.
Point me to what specific terms are made in the agreement at hand (TPP or TPA) where America concedes political boundaries or constitutional sovereignty.
The only thing twisting are your comments John.
“The Trumpettes that are swallowing and regurgitating this swill are saps of the highest order.”
You basically say the same exact thing every day. You can’t post without denigrating Trump supporters.
You’re a broken record.
Yawn.
This is why these rotten trade deals ALWAYS get passed.
Your reply has absolutely nothing to do with my post.
ping
That is why they make these trade bills so thick so no one can see what is in them!
Exactly!!!!
Nobody bypassed the Constitution. If you think they did, go ahead and sue Congress for violating the law of the land.
No different then giving him the ability to wage undeclared wars!
That’s the problem. You people can’t distinguish between voluntary exchange in the free market which does not threaten American political sovereignty versus political boundary or constitutional concessions which blur or destroy American political sovereignty. Market exchanges free of government interference simply DOES NOT threaten our sovereignty.
But it is very hard to get through to you people because you are immersed in your inflammatory but confused and empty rhetoric. The “globalism” that is a threat is POLITICAL globalism that destroys political boundaries. Global voluntary trade free from government interference has NO power nor desire to destroy political boundaries or sovereignty. Rather it makes a nation wealthy.
Ted Crus ia a liar, everyone knows that.
What?? Cruz lies??? Who knew?
And don’t mind that he rarely answers a question.
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