> “At least you present a reasoned and detailed response as to why you support ObamaTrade, but as more of the ugly facts come out about ObamaTrade, I refuse to support any politician that supports this.”
Just to be clear, I do not support ‘Obamatrade’, rather I support ‘Cruztrade’.
Senator Jeff Sessions is doing an heroic job at calling out the dangers of Obamatrade. But I will bet serious cookies that Senator Jeff will be all in support for President Cruz to wield TPA once he’s in the Oval Office.
Because it’s not TPA that is the problem, it’s the person authorized to wield its powers.
And Ted Cruz is calculating that Obama will have no real time to get any trade deals done using TPA because there’s a full election cycle coming up and pols in Washington DC are not going to hunker themselves down to one of Obama’s trade deals when they need to be out and about campaigning.
Therefore, the longer that Sessions via Duncan Hunter can hold the House up on TPA, the less time Obama and his administration have to start a trip around the globe to get a trade deal in place. and the more time a President such as Ted Cruz will get to put a different trade deal in place. Running out the clock is important here.
But we must remain aware that Obama can veto the TPA in the form that Congress hands it to him.
Furthermore, he must state that he will wait until he is President to explore the possibility of creating a CruzTrade bill and only in an open and transparent manner with the people of America.
These are my conditions, and probably of many of the former Cruz-supporters who feel betrayed by him.