The other thing to keep in mind is so what if Obama signs a piece of paper that hasn’t been voted on yet? That’s really the part that’s for “show”. Congress still retains an up or down vote and until that’s done, I would consider that piece of paper no more legal authority than any of the other unconstitutional executive orders he’s signed over the years.
Otherwise, what’s the point of this debate, just have Obozo start issuing Executive Orders declaring Trade Agreements with whatever countries.
It can be changed. Congress votes it down and sends the POTUS back to the drawing board, but ideally, a shrewd President would consult with Congress before negotiating first so that any signed agreement would be anticipated/assumed to be acceptable by Congress. Not that this POTUS would do that, but I have no doubt Cruz would utilize the purpose of TPA the way intended.
That “up and down vote” can’t be filibustered. Lovely, isn’t it.
Exactly!
There’s a lot of fear-mongering going on and it’s not helping people to understand that even when it’s past it won’t go into effect until election if not after...and I think our guys will stall it until after when our guys have the Power!...Obama just wants the Glory for this as he walks out the door. HE’s desperate for something substantial!
Interesting too is Obama could ‘not’ sign onto this if he wanted. You never know with this guy!
Cruz understands TPA very well...as much the others people are getting alarmed about. I do trust the man for he’s doing more than just running for President. ....he’s flushing out the creeps as he goes along....just as he did with the amendment....and they crawled out of the woodwork.
If anyone, including Cruz, votes to surrender power to Obama and votes to move us one step closer to further damaging our economy and surrendering our sovereignty to international councils then that person deserves nothing but our absolute disdain and ridicule.
Ted Cruz is a Traitor and a liar. He and his CFR member wife deserve nothing but absolute scorn.
Time to drop Cruz and move on to deserving candidates. At least his TPA betrayal showed us who he really is before we got far with him in the Primary process.
Cruz lied, Cruz betrayed us, Cruz said one thing and then did another. Now when I see him I just see a liar and a fraud.
Regardless of what he says, he has voted to show he is fine with hiding documents from Congress, voting to increase H1B visas so more Americans here can train their foreign replacements before they are fired, and Cruz has one of the lowest voting attendance rates in the Senate.
When you actually look at what he has done instead of what he says you see that Cruz is actually a TERRIBLE candidate based on what he has actually done.
We already had a lot of Americans vote for somebody that gives good speeches and tells people what they want to hear. That person is now in his 7th year of destroying this country.