For those who still find it challenging to accept the truth in the video below Ted Cruz Explains why he supports (TPA) Trade Promotion Authority:
@01:56 of the video, again: “I support TPA” ~ Ted Cruz
I listened to the explanation at the time and it just didn’t add up. That was when I turned sour on Cruz. That and the Corker bill. Two bad choice in a row close together are hard to overlook.
The bigger question for me about Ted Cruz and TPA and TPP et al is the question of why his conversations now are all about ‘delegates’ rather than ‘voters.’
The blithe acceptance of an obvious maniac’s support to win Utah (Glenn Beck), hiring Neil (S&L) Bush as a financier, gladly accepting warm gestures from Lindsey Graham and the poweratti of the GOP Congress......
Overall, he’s working the delegates and the convention strategy rather than convincing millions of voters. Does he think his hijinks will be lovingly approved by the massive millions out there who can see this scheming for the power the grab that it really is?
The Electoral College isn’t a cloistered establishment GOP bitch that can be wheedle and bought with promises. At least 26 states have some form of “faithless elector” laws that bind their votes to the will of the voter. Unfortunately for Mr. Cruz, they are states that he would badly need in a win against Hillary or Sanders.
The bottom line? I don’t give a hoot about his damned video. I give a damn what he’s doing right now - today. And tonight he’s gonna find out how all this is working out - in spades.
I am thinking that pissing off Pelosi and Warrren is a good thing.
If you want to talk about intellectual honesty then everyone should watch the video which you reference and also read carefully the articles linked at the blog (not the spin but the actual articles)
What Cruz says there is what we who support him have been saying for months very time this is brought up.
First the careful reader of the blog itself will note that buried in there is the fact that Cruz ended up NOT voting for TPA, and yet this is still not good enough because he “supported” it before. Fine.
As he said in that video and as he was quoted as saying in the blog, the reason he supporTED, not supportS, but USED to support TPA, (or “fast track”) was because it (and still does) give the president the ability to negotiate trade deals.
First off, don’t we want the president to be able to do that? Even Trump? Don’t you think it would be a good idea for Trump to have the ability to negotiate deals?
That’s the point he (Cruz) addresses in the video the reason for his support at the time: because in his mind (and he’s right about this) it’s the NEXT president; not Obama now, who will be negotiating such deals!! So it’s not like he supported the notion of “giving Obama more power”, again as he explains in the video. It’s under the presumption that the next president will need to negotiate deals an ability, by the way as is again pointed out in the video, that the president has had for the last 80 years! It’s nothing new here folks! And the reason the majority requirement has ALWAYS been lowered from 2/3 to a simple majority was indeed to “fast track” such deals.
Again, for the last 80 years. Again, NOTHING new.
The reason Cruz eventually voted AGAINST TPA was because of the back room deal that was indeed put in there, despite McConnels promises, about renewing the Im-Ex bank! Something every conservative should be opposed to!! THATS why Cruz called him a “liar” on the Senate floor, something we applauded him for just a YEAR ago here on FR but now has masterfully been turned around on him to paint him as a liar.
His entire actions through the whole affair have been nothing BUT conservative and yet in the last year, through some masterful flim-flam from sites like the “conservative tree house” and it’s author, that “paragon” of conservatism “Sundance”, these same acts we on FR just a YEAR AGO RIGHTFULLY APPLAUDED have been TWISTED into “proof” of the “Lyin Ted” moniker.
Josef Goebels would be pleased.
“Conservative tree house”’calling for “intellectual honesy”. What a crock!